We Cannot, Must Not Empathize With Hate

Aaden Friday
The Establishment
Published in
9 min readNov 17, 2016

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Hate cannot be loved into submission. Hate must be hated.

TThe world had been sad since Tuesday.

This is how Gabriel García Márquez begins his story “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings.” And never has a sentence felt so prophetic, so precise.

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Aaden Friday
The Establishment

Writer, artist, & fundamentalist Christian school survivor. They live in Philly with their partner, two Shorkies, & one disgruntled cat.