[Displaced Flames fan]

The interwebs and social media specifically are part of the problem. As we all know from discussions on this board, people tend to be emboldened by the relative anonymity and lack of risk from espousing divisive language on the internet. So, more people are spreading hate. Some of it, some of them probably don't even believe in...or at least not to the point they show on the internet and social media.

Then, you have weak minded individuals who believe everything that remotely fits their worldview and are motivated to act. I don't know that there is a solution on a broad scale. It is up to all of us to teach our children not to hate (and not believe everything they see on the internet). With the disintegration of the family structure (and I'm don't mean Mother/Father only, I mean 2 parents) and the demand of society that both parents work in order to maintain some kind of comfortable lifestyle (1st world obviously) that mission has been compromised for the last few decades. I believe, at least in part, what we are seeing is the result of that.

Now, a lot of that may sound like right wing talking points (family values?), but that's not where I'm coming from at all. Society has deteriorated in many demographs, geographs and especially among the impoverished.

I choose not to hate. I choose not to label. I choose to have faith in humans until they show me that faith is unwarranted. I just try to pass that on to my kids and hope they will do the same.