Whenever I mention hate – which, like love, is all around – to Marco Sparks, he always quotes some comedian named Dylan Moran who talks about how there’s some people that you hate so much that you have to just get up early in the morning to start hating them.

That’s how I feel about Heidi and Spencer. Somebody mentioned them to me the other day and I punched a computer monitor. A computer monitor with their faces on it!

But a lot of hate starts somewhere simple: Lack of understanding. And intolerance. I’ve said it before concerning race relations, but the X-Men taught us that. Also, flat out stupidity plays a part in that too. Here’s an example via some stupid kids in Israel:

Geniuses, every single one of them. I’m not going to hold their comments against them too much because they’re half a world away and don’t have a clue about us. Also, they’re drunk. Hell, the one girl’s a poly sci major and doesn’t know who Benjamin Netanyahu is. But whatever.

As a minority, I’ve encountered some serious racism from Jewish people before, but even with that, and with this video, it’s not something I put on people as a whole. Incidents do not make a whole, no matter how brutal and trying they can be on someone. You gotta be tougher than the motherfuckers, you know what I mean? You gotta be hard as shit. You gotta be crazy street hard. You gotta be this guy here:

That guy’s the real deal. He’s so hard I had to scoot back in my chair a little. It’s probably best to not get as crazy and raw as this guy, but it illustrates a good point: Hate is not cool. It leads to bad fashion, worse hair, and ulcers probably. And it’s certainly not sexy.

So, if I could offer you a little advice… Don’t pass retarded and limiting ways of thinking onto your kids. Don’t make your stupid little babies live a life balanced between love and hate, like so:

And when it comes to yourself, try to understand people first. Try to see past the minor cosmetic or xenophobic differences between you and them and get to the root of why they’re stupid. Or why you’re stupid. And maybe, just maybe, when you’re in the middle of a heated melting pot moment like that, just take five?