Trisha Yearwood: "Be careful who you hate.....

[Tanuki]

Link to tweet

[KS Toronado]

1. OK Trisha

now write and sing a song about it, you've got the talent to do it.

[KentuckyWoman]

25. Actually

https://pridesource.com/article/qa-trisha-yearwood-talks-her-country-defiant-lgbtq-support-lesbian-love-the-nashville-closet/

Her support goes back a ways.

[peppertree]

2. Who you hate, you'll have to be in the next life

Especially if you act on it.

So as to learn empathy for that person or those people.*

*Hate due to being a victim of someone's wrongdoing is a major mitigator - though forgiveness is still best.

[LoisB]

5. My grandmother would have approved this message. She used to say similar things all the time.

[peppertree]

12. Aww. Thanks for sharing that.

My two grandmothers weren't that way at all, sadly - and both ended up very unhappy.

But one of my great-grandmothers was. She lived to be 92 (would've lived longer, but for an inherited gall-bladder affliction), and was loved by everyone who knew her.

[LoisB]

16. It is funny how strange life is. You would think the values of your great-grandmother would have

rubbed off. I only knew one of my grandmothers, the other died the year I was born. I like to think she was nice.

[peppertree]

17. Well said. And I like to think we see them again - or finally meet

We'll know when the time comes, I suppose.

[LoisB]

18. I think I don't believe in heaven or hell but I know I believe in another level of consciousness; a

spirit world if you like. Yes, we will find out if there is something and if there is nothing, we won't know.

[peppertree]

19. Something to look forward to, I guess

Thanks for sharing, Lois. All the Best.

[chowmama]

7. But I don't wanna be a Nazi

or any other kind of fascist.

More seriously, I've never thought of hate as a separate emotion. I think it's a subset of fear. Hate is a name we have for a particular kind of fear. You never see hate without fear; haters feel personally threatened, rightly or wrongly, by the hated.

I'm not sure I actually fear fascists. I'm just really certain I want to do anything necessary to keep them from getting their way.

[peppertree]

10. Well, that's revulsion - which is a perfectly reasonable reaction

If you, say, hated Germans or German-Americans - that would be a problem.

If a Ukrainian hates Putin and his entourage, he hates them for what they're doing.

That said, detached objection would probably be best - though it's easier said than done.

[spanone]

3. Thanks Trisha!!!!

[calimary]

4. Makes you stop and think.

[LoisB]

6. I agree in principle.

[Upthevibe]

8. Kick. n/t

[SunSeeker]

9. Well, I hate Donald Trump, so there is no chance he's someone I love. nt

[oldsoftie]

14. Hahahahahahahahahaha!!!

[Collimator]

23. Yeah, but is your entire personality hating Donald Trump?

And Republicans say that Liberals can't make fun of themselves.

[catbyte]

11. Love Tricia and Garth. They're good Democrats, which probably isn't always easy given

the general political leanings of many country music fans. Look what happened to the Dixie Chicks back in 2003 or so. Country music isn't my favorite genre, but I have bought music from them, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, Willie Nelson, and The Chicks.

[FakeNoose]

13. I believe many American families have a member or close friend who is gay

... and I'm including the Repuke families in that estimate too. Some families won't publicly acknowledge it out of fear or anger. But most Americans can see what the unfair prejudice and hatred towards gays has done to hurt their loved ones.

That's why I believe there will be little traction in this garbage that's being spouted by Lauren Boebert and Empty-Gee, among others. It's going to backfire on them, because I believe most Americans want the discrimination and hateful intolerance to end. Maybe Repukes don't have the nerve to stand up to the loudmouth assholes, but they will vote to protect their own friends and loved ones when the time comes.

Trisha Yearwood is perhaps illustrating quite vividly that ALL OF US probably know someone who is being harmed by the illegal and hateful discrimination of LGBTQ Americans.

[Jilly_in_VA]

24. Agreed

And so many don't know it because that family member or friend is afraid of coming out to them.

[Behind the Aegis]

15. I like it, but the far-right, usually religious people, have a work around.

"Hate the sin, love the sinner." I have heard that so many times, a bit of bile rose in my throat even writing it.

[Aristus]

22. No kidding. It's a pretty crapulous axiom.

If anyone bleated that horseshit at me, I would simply point out that they’re just inventing a rationalization for their hatred.

[SouthernDem4ever]

20. isn't that an oxymoron?

I can't love someone I despise. Sorry it's not in me.

[brettdale]

21. Go Trisha!!

Brilliant tweet!!