Hatred Is Not Natural. It’s designed.

I’ve been unlearning what I was taught not to see. This post isn’t mine to claim, but it’s one I need to write. Because hatred didn’t fall out of the sky. It was taught, protected, and passed down by systems I was born into. And while I’ll never fully know the pain those systems have caused, I can name them. And I can refuse to be complicit in pretending they aren’t still here.

We ask why there’s so much hate in the world. Why people are cruel. Why prejudice still infects every corner of society. The answer? Because hatred isn’t natural. It’s designed. And the architects are patriarchy and white supremacy. They built the blueprint. They decided who counts and who doesn’t. Who gets seen as human, and who gets policed, mocked, erased, or controlled. It didn’t just “happen.” It was passed down. In policies. In textbooks. In sermons. In silence. They taught men to dominate and called it strength. They taught white people to fear difference and call it safety. They taught the world to distrust softness, community, and anything that can’t be measured in profit. They didn’t just build power. They built division to keep it.

So ask why the system was designed this way in the first place. Ask who it serves. Ask who it silences. Ask why comfort is protected over the truth.

And when you’re ready- don’t just critique it. Dismantle it. Not by claiming the mic- but by handing it to those who’ve been silenced. Not by rewriting history-but by reckoning with it.

We don’t need to burn down each other. But the systems that were built on stolen bodies and silenced voices? They can’t stay standing.