"I Think I Hate This President-and I Think Im Okay With That"

[babylonsister]

https://johnpavlovitz.com/2017/11/23/hate-president-think-im-okay/

I Think I Hate This President—and I Think I’m Okay With That
November 23, 2017 / John Pavlovitz

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A good friend scolded me yesterday that she wanted to see me, “focus on what I’m for, not what I’m against.”

I knew what she meant.

I tried to tell her that I am already doing that:

I love and am for people who are sick and facing life threatening illness—and I hate and stand against those stand between them and wellness.
I love and am for Transgender teenagers and gay couples and lesbian clergy—and I hate and stand against those putting them through hell simply for trying to live authentically.
I love and am for people who flee unthinkable violence and fear to reach this country—and hate and stand against those who offer them no compassion and only contempt.
I love and am for women who’ve lived their entire lives in a culture of misogyny and sexism—and hate and stand against men who perpetuate individual and systemic violence against them.
I love and am for young black men who still fear law enforcement and their government—and hate and stand against those who vilify and condemn them for taking a knee or pleading to be treated with simple equality.
I love and am for Muslims who aren’t able to worship outwardly and freely without derision and harassment—and I hate and stand against those who mischaracterize them and incite such mistreatment.
I love and am for the hurting, the marginalized, the isolated, and the bullied—and I hate and stand against the wounders, the marginalizers, the isolaters, and the bullies.

And because of the deep love that I have for this country, for its Constitution, and for it’s beautifully radiant diversity—yes, I hate this President.

I hate what he and those alongside him are doing to good, loving, decent human beings who call this place home, and I’m going to keep hating such things because that is simply the other side of caring for the least.

Silence in the face of oppression isn’t love it’s compliance, it’s participation.
Opposing it is how I show who and what I am for.
Hatred of injustice is a redemptive way of loving people most threatened by it.

I hope Will Rogers, my mother, and Jesus will all be okay with that.

I think I am.

[Ilsa]

1. The last item in the first block needs a typo corrected.

"...and the bullies-- and I hate..." "Bullies" should be "bullied" the first time in the phrase.

[babylonsister]

6. Thank you-corrected. nt

[Leith]

2. I Think That All of Us Here Stand with Pavlovitz

rethugs themselves don't believe in or stand for anything. They just don't express their hatred much outside their own circle. They hate minorities, liberals, foreigners, refugees, gun victims, the hungry, the homeless, nonchristians, and so on, but they claim they don't. They lie.

[dawg]

3. I don't hate him.

I just hate the fact that he's President.

[dhill926]

7. well....I hate the son of a bitch....

and I'm ok with that....

[smirkymonkey]

8. I hate him with a passion.

And I will dance on his grave when he is gone.

And I don't feel the slightest bit guilty about it.

[calimary]

13. He's every bit as hateful while a squatter in Hillary's office as he was as a civilian.

I've got nothing else. He is hateful and what he's doing to this country and the rest of the world is just as hateful.

Sorry. It's deserved. And very well-earned. I sincerely don't want to hate anybody. But that's all I've got when it comes to this monster.

[Irish_Dem]

4. I hate evil. And I'm OK with that. nt

[ProfessorGAC]

5. I Hate "It"

And everything "it" represents! And I'm OK with that!
Fuck "it"!

[syringis]

9. Hate is a strong emotion

That douche bag doesn't worth it. He is despicable.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. Yes. Toxic & not worth it. Replace w cold loathing: healthier rational response leading to action.nt

[Duppers]

10. Excellent!

I'm okay with all of this. Thank you for an excellent post.

[jb5150]

11. I would love, when the time comes, to piss on his grave ...

... but I hate waiting in line

[lark]

14. I am perfect with it, in fact.

"Silence in the face of oppression isn’t love it’s compliance, it’s participation. "

I too choose not to participate with the hatred that is trying to destroy our way of life.

[mountain grammy]

15. My granddaughter asked me if I wished he would die. I said yes.

She's 13... old enough to understand.

[niyad]

16. I KNOW I hate that disgusting piece of filth currently squatting in the people's house, and

I am perfectly okay with that.