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Hate's Irrational Justification

Hate's Irrational Justification
On Sept. 6, 2001, Richard Baumhammers, "a 36 year-old immigration lawyer, received five death sentences plus 112 ½ to 225 years in prison for a mass shooting rampage in April 2000 that killed his Jewish neighbor, two Asian men, and Indian man and a black man." ("For the Record")   This incident was classified as a "hate crime" (a crime motivated solely on hate).   Hatred is an extreme, on-going outburst powerful resentment and dislike of something or someone.   How can something so powerful, such as hate, fulfill the minds of so many people?   The odd thing about it, also, is that, hate does not cloud the minds of certain people only, the range of people is too great to be able to even start classifying them. Hate, like human feeling, is not rational but it has its reasons.
Hate is irrational.   Hate is created when people lose their ability to properly reason with anyone or with themselves for that matter. Hate is felt when someone feels trapped, unable to find another way of finding a solution to something that does not sit well in their minds.   The Ku Klux Klan, who openly demonstrate hate towards African Americans, for example was compiled of middle to lower class white citizens that felt like their families, jobs, and lives were being threatened by the increase of African Americans living in the United States (Office Copy: Hate).   As a result of this feeling of hopelessness and fear, they lynched and attacked African Americans for many years.   Even till this day they have not completely seized harassment.   Many people will agree that this is not a suitable solution for anything.   Nothing was done to peacefully solve this conflict or mediate, instead, the KKK resorted to violence and open hatred.   Another example is the Neo-nazi formation in the U.S. (Intelligence report magazine) The Nazi party headed by Hitler in the nineteen thirties and forties hated Jews and anyone not part of the, so-called "Aryan nation" because they also...