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This is a real Police Scotland campaign aimed at adults

Have you met the hate monster?

Have you met the Hate Monster?
The Hate Monster, represents that feeling some people get when they are frustrated and angry and take it out on others, because they feel like they need to show they are better than them. In other words, they commit a hate crime.

The Hate Monster loves it when you get angry. He weighs you down till you end up targeting someone, just because they look or act different to you.

When you’re feeling insecure or angry, the Hate Monster feeds on that.

Why do some people let the Hate Monster in?
We know that young men aged 18-30 are most likely to commit hate crime, particularly those from socially excluded communities who are heavily influenced by their peers.

They may have deep-rooted feelings of being socially and economically disadvantaged, combined with ideas about white-male entitlement.

Hurt people, hurt people
Committing hate crime is strongly linked to a range of risk factors including economic deprivation, adverse childhood experiences, substance abuse and under-employment. Those who grow up in abusive environments can become addicted to conflict.

Don’t let the Hate Monster rule your life
If you have committed or feel you are at risk of committing a hate crime, remember, it doesn’t make you feel better. Maybe for a moment, but in the end, you feel worse. The hate lingers. It can really mess up your life in other ways too, like when it comes to things like finding a job. A police record for hate crime is not a good look on anyone.

Go on, be good to yourself. Don’t feed the Hate Monster.

Watch award-winning stand-up, Liam Farrelly, lead a discussion about the impact of hate.

What to do if you see the hate monster
If you experience hate crime, report it.

If you are a witness to hate crime, report it.

Find out more about the different ways you can make a report.

The official hate monster video would have been perfectly acceptable for primary schools to show to pupils in their PSHE lessons. But if Police Scotland’s idea of a message for adults is “The Hate Monster loves it when you get angry”, I dread to think what the kids’ version is like…

I tawt I taw a hatey monster!

I did! I did! I taw a hatey monster!

Hatey watey monster said hatey tings. Hatey monster said bad tings ’bout all lotsa peepuw coz of pwotected kawactewistic. Hatey monster said, “They may have deep-rooted feelings of being socially and economically disadvantaged, combined with ideas about white-male entitlement.”

27 comments to This is a real Police Scotland campaign aimed at adults

  • jgh

    So…… this is targetting the Muslim community. Must be from all the way it’s worded. Socially excluded, highly influenced, abusive lifestyle, envy of white people.

  • Stonyground

    Nowadays a hate crime is saying something that is objectively true.

  • @JGH – Sounds like it’s explicitly targetting our First Minister, “Useless” Humza Yousaf, who is all that and more.

    At least I didn’t cough £250,000 of taxpayers cash as a ransom for my parents to escape Gaza.

  • bobby b

    OP:

    “They may have deep-rooted feelings of being socially and economically disadvantaged, combined with ideas about white-male entitlement.”

    Yeah, no, it’s not aimed at Muslims.

  • AndrewZ

    It just shows what contempt they have for the public. They talk down to us as if we were stupid, spiteful children because that’s how they see us.

  • Steven R

    Committing hate crime is strongly linked to a range of risk factors including economic deprivation, adverse childhood experiences, substance abuse and under-employment. Those who grow up in abusive environments can become addicted to conflict.

    well, that explains all the white-collar crime.

  • Kirk

    AndrewZ said:

    It just shows what contempt they have for the public. They talk down to us as if we were stupid, spiteful children because that’s how they see us.

    This attitude is an essential part of their world-view; they have to see themselves as morally superior and righteous, because if they weren’t the paragons of virtue, paladins in the fight against all that is evil… Then, they’d have to admit that they themselves were assholes.

    Which they cannot do. They’re caught in an endless endorphin loop, where they’re addicted to the highs they get from asserting themselves and lording it over the other, inferior people.

    It’s a mental illness, and should be recognized as such. People with this disorder ought to be identified and then given treatment while separated from the rest of the population. When they can act like decent human beings, then they can be allowed back into contact with general society.

    That we fail to recognize these creatures as being ill? The source of many of our problems in society. They are deranged, and they are acting out the implications of their mental problems.

  • Paul Marks

    Frankfurt School “Critical Theory” Marxism – but delivered by people who have been lobotomised.

    There is evidence that the size of human brains has shrunk over as recently the last three thousand years (perhaps the invention of writing, and the rise of specialisation in trades, has something to do with this – we no longer need to remember as much, or to have a wide range of different skills), but it sometimes seems as if the decline in cognitive capacity has declined much more recently – say the last 40 years.

    The very term “Police Scotland” is stupid. It is like saying “Tate Modern” rather than “The Tate Gallery of Modern Art”.

  • Paul Marks

    All this, and worse, is likely to come to England soon – people who think things can not get worse are going to get a shock, as things are likely to get much worse.

    There is a great irony – the people are sick to the back teeth of “Woke” (Frankfurt School, “Critical Theory”, whatever you want to call it) stuff – but they are about to vote in a government that will push it even more.

    “It is their turn” you see. Time for “the other lot”.

    Only this evening, at a social gathering, I listened to people filled with disgust at all the utter nonsense about “racism”, “sexism”, and all the rest of it. But they are going to vote Labour – it is “their turn”.

    “But if the Conservatives had really opposed Woke doctrine” – no one in the House of Commons has a better record of opposing it than the local Member of Parliament, but his record does not seem to count.

    And so England will follow Scotland.

  • Jacob

    “The Hate Monster, represents that feeling some people get when they are frustrated and angry and take it out on others, because they feel like they need to show they are better than them. In other words, they commit a hate crime.

    So, can we classify the actions and preaching of “Extinction rebellion”, Greta Thunberg, John Kerry etc. as hate crimes? They fit the definition perfectly.

  • staghounds

    “deep-rooted feelings of being socially and economically disadvantaged, combined with ideas about white-male entitlement”- that’s the whole Harvard liberal arts faculty!

  • Jon Eds

    We know that young men aged 18-30 are most likely to commit hate crime, particularly those from socially excluded communities who are heavily influenced by their peers.

    They may have deep-rooted feelings of being socially and economically disadvantaged, combined with ideas about white-male entitlement.

    Well, that’s a pretty accurate description of those who disproportionately commit acts of terror or acts of violence against the majority ethnic group in the West.

  • Paul Marks

    The “Police Scotland” campaign was clearly stupid as well as ill intentioned – but sometimes Collectivists can be clever.

    For example, I was wondering why Michael Gove (a British government minister) retweeted a pro Islam talk by Justin Welby (the Anglian Archbishop of Canterbury), but today the answer came to me. The talk was retweeted as “fly paper” – it was retweeted to provoke people into making negative comments, this would mark them as “intolerant” and filled with “hate”, and thus “extremists” by the definition just published. Quite an intelligent plan.

    Being “an extremist” is not yet a crime – but under the next Labour government it will be, so Mr Gove is, whether or not this is his intention, paving the way for them. The irony being that many ordinary people who will vote Labour are “extremists” by this definition, indeed most people are “extremists” by this definition.

    It is much easier to rule people if most of them are guilty of a crime and can, if it is convenient for other reasons, be arrested for this crime.

    By the way – the Catholic Cardinal Archbishops of New York and Chicago (those two unofficially bankrupt vast cities – bankrupted by “compassionate” policies that the various churches supported as much as most atheists did) have given similar pro Islam “Ramadan talks” to the one of Anglian Archbishop Welby – thus showing that those people who left the Anglican Church (the Church of England) for the Roman Catholic Church, for example the chaplain of the late Queen Elizabeth, have just jumped from the frying pan into the fire.

    No institution in the modern West is uncorrupted.

  • Kirk

    The thing I can’t quite work out is what all these geniuses think is going to happen, once we enter on the Elysian Plains of their imagined “perfect world”.

    OK, so we demoralize and “put in their place” all the white males that society used to rely on to keep things ticking over. What then? What do you do when those “evullll white cis-heterosexuals” cease playing the game, and curl up with a good videogame, rather than take part in society?

    D’ya really think all those pink-haired twats are going to put in 18-hour days down at the coalfaces of the working world? Do these people think that they’re somehow going to overcome the nature of people, and that things will still work?

    I gotta newsflash for all of them: The unfortunate reality of the situation has always been that the white working male was exploited and abused beyond belief. You got him to strive, to work himself to death, all based on a series of lies he believed because that was what he was told by everyone, that he was the lord of creation, the head of household, etc., etc. …

    The reality was far from the truth; those were motivational lies told him by the system, and now that they’re doing the exact opposite? LOL… Yeah, he’s gonna get right on those 18-hour days doing back-breaking physical and mental work for all of you. Not.

    The effects of this can already be seen, in the impending bankruptcies of all these “woke” media corporations. You can have your contempt for the cis-hetero white male, and keep it hidden, but you cannot have it out in the open, not if you want him to keep playing the game. The fate of sports website Deadspin is instructive, and a precursor to the whole system coming down.

    The foolish little girlies and girly-men all thought they could handily do better, and replace their “oppressors”. What they’re about to find out over the next few generations is that now that the con is out in the open, the marks aren’t willing to play the game any more. And, let us be honest: Most of Western Civ was always a long con, against the “average white working man”. His happiness and health was never the goal, and that was why everyone made believe that “he” was running things. Now that they’ve taken away even that sop, well… Yeah. Observe the implosion, ‘cos I strongly suspect that the “average white male” is done with all of it. Do not be particularly surprised when said perennial victim embraces some rather ugly things, like deeply traditional and misogynistic Islam. Or, some other, equally atavistic faith, maybe even outright paganism.

    The trouble with a lot of con jobs is that once the con artist gets too overconfident and contemptuous of their marks, they start doing really stupid and obvious things that finally, finally clue the mark in to what is going on. Western femininity and the rest of the parasite classes are at that point, and I fear that we ain’t coming back from the brink.

    Observe what happens over the next few decades with regards to US Army recruitment numbers, along with combat effectiveness. You want to keep people motivated to do these things, against their clear self-interest? Ya have to feed some of your corn to the kine, and when you cheap out on doing that, the usual effect is that the kine quit pulling at the grist mills of life…

  • bobby b

    Kirk
    March 15, 2024 at 7:02 pm

    “The thing I can’t quite work out is what all these geniuses think is going to happen, once we enter on the Elysian Plains of their imagined “perfect world”.”

    I remember Ayn Rand’s answer to this. She said that they fully expect that the actual productive people will always find a way to keep producing, that it is in their blood and they can’t stop, and that you could steal as much of the profit from those people as you want without fear that they would stop producing.

    I suspect that she was correct, up to a point. Finding that point will hurt.

  • @BobbyB – That tipping point varies for each individual, but in aggregate represents the turning point of the Laffer Curve, where it moves from “Revenue Increasing” to “Revenue Reducing”.

    People like Spud think you can bleed folk dry with taxes and there will be no behavioural response.

    They’re wrong, but will never believe that. Not in their interests to do so.

  • Fred Z

    And the Scots wonder why the Saxons always kick the shit out of the Scots and Scotland.

    Because the Saxons can.

    Because the Scots deserve it.

    Where the fuck did those idiots originate? Palestine?

  • Mark

    When you look at puerile, infantilised viciousness like this, you all have to remember that they simply don’t have the intellectual capacity, or life experience to behave in any other way.

    This mindset is their universe and nothing exists outside it.

    I’m assuming der sturmer will form the “government” within the next year and I have to admit that a perverse part of me is almost looking forward to it.

    When the sheer primitive, arrogant stupidity of the likes of abbot, rayner and Lammy is given free rein.

    Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want this, but hell’s teeth, it will be quite a freak show!!

  • jgh

    You can already see in Japan males under 35 opting out of society. That’s only just going to increase, with the productive population falling off the other end.

  • Kirk

    jgh said:

    You can already see in Japan males under 35 opting out of society. That’s only just going to increase, with the productive population falling off the other end.

    Hikikomori males just withdraw from society; the female equivalent is demonstrated when we look at the fertility rate, and that is an expression of the males having opted out along with the females saying “Yeah… I’m just not going to the bother of raising any kids…”

    It’s not just the boys, I’m afraid. It’s also the girls. The whole structure of societies exhibiting this are dysfunctional and operating like machines that have gone out of regulation and which are rattling, banging, and beating themselves to death on the way to self-destruction.

    I think you can make out a lot of parallels between what’s going on now, and what was going on during the end stages of the Roman Imperial days: The Boni, the “great and good” of society, have lost track of what their actual role is supposed to be, and have all gone mad making themselves rich at the expense of everyone else. Rome had its “great men” building latifundia out of the smallholdings that once provided the yeoman farmers who manned the Republican legions, and we have “private equity” doing the precise same thing to the companies they take over and then loot and ruin… Without a thing being done by any of the people who’re supposed to be overseeing it all.

    What we’ve really got here is a very similar situation, and it will end about the same way… With an enervated society too weak and disinterested in its own survival to really resist outside forces taking it over. Western Roman Empire met its end at the hands of the Germanic tribes, and the Eastern lasted a bit longer, only to go under when Islam came boiling out of Araby.

    In the end, I think you can really make a case for stating that societies are inevitably murdered in their sleep by their own elites, who become selfish and uninterested in making sure that everything they rely on elsewhere in society remains functional while they prosper.

    The profligate expenditure of lives we saw in the Soviet Union led directly to what happened to them by the 1980s; Stalin’s having flung entire generations of humanity into the ovens of war played out with the demographic collapse, which they likely could have eventually recovered from…

    Except for the minor fact that they went to Putin, who only doubled-down on the stupidity. Nothing Putin has done has really addressed the fundamental problems of Russian society; most of the countryside remains moribund, without even indoor plumbing or good health care. He’s built a bunch of Potemkin-Village cities that glitter in the night, right up until you go to turn the heat on in your apartment. Because of this, Russian demographics will likely never recover, and the death spiral of Russian society has already begun. I doubt that anyone will be able to pull it out, either.

    You can find parallels to the Russian situation throughout the West. All the fine socialist benefits in the European nations? Paid for with the futures of their children, who cannot afford to form families to the point where their “betters” are bringing in third-world tribals to replace them, thinking that a German craftsman is interchangeable with an African two generations away from the late Iron Age. The denouement won’t be pretty.

    You would think that the elites would learn from history, but they never, ever do. Rome self-terminated in a fit of greed and power-hunger. Because of that, they turned the backbone of their society into beggars and wondered why they had to hire mercenaries…

  • Paul Marks

    Kirk and the others.

    “To have a united Europe, indeed a united world, we must get rid of national peoples” – that is the thinking – some elite types were thinking on these lines as far back as the 1920s, but it was the 1960s when such thinking got a stranglehold.

    The destruction of nations, of national peoples – their culture, even their long term biological existence – is not an accident, it is planned and a lot of work is put into it.

    But it is very one-way – for example the towns and cities of Nigeria are just a Nigerian as they were 60 years ago, American and European cities are being utterly transformed in terms of the people who live in them – but African cities are not. For example, no one worries that Nigerian sports teams (or the sports teams of other African nations) do not have white or Asian members, ditto their judges and so on. “Diversity” is not required. Ditto in Latin America, or the Middle East, or the Far East.

    Sometimes members of the international elite sense that something is going wrong with their plans – for example William “Bill” Gates will demand to know why most Africans are not accepting his injections.

    The answer “because the Africans are sane – and do not take experimental drugs when they are not sick” is not something that Mr Gates or the rest of the international elite wish to hear.

    So the people of such areas (Africa, the Middle East, some parts of Latin America, and parts of the far east – the Islamic parts of the far east) continue to have children – and they continue to be in robust health, they are physically strong and have energy.

    Nor are they interested in making homosexuality, or trans sexuality, a religion (which the West has been indoctrinated into doing) – they want to have children and spread over new lands.

    This is perfectly natural – and as the peoples of the “advanced” nations are dying (fertility rate well under two) they are, to some extent, expanding into a void.

    It seems likely that the West will be destroyed – but the elite will NOT get the servile world they want, they will get something very different.

    A world that is very different – and has no use for the international elite.

  • Paul Marks

    As for claims of higher average intelligence – even if such claims were true (and I am NOT saying such claims are true), intelligence may not be the key factor.

    Imagine two peoples – Group A and Group B.

    Group A, on average, having IQ levels a few points lower than Group B – but being sane.

    Meanwhile Group B have a bit higher average intelligence – but are batshit crazy.

    Group B believe their ancestors were evil, that their own culture is disgusting, many of Group B do not want to have children, and members of Group B believe that in any dispute with Group A, they (Group B) are automatically wrong, and Group A are automatically correct.

    Meanwhile, I repeat, Group A is sane – they are proud of their culture and history, they want to have children and spread to other lands, and in disputes they tend to assume that they (Group A) are morally in the right.

    Which group is going to survive?

  • Paul Marks

    “But Haiti”

    An absurdly extreme example, most countries are NOT like Haiti, but even this example does not prove what people think it proves.

    In reality the population of Haiti is at all time record HIGH – and the population is expanding to other lands. Biologically it is a great success.

    “But they eat people” – in reality only a TINY number of people are eaten and only by gang leaders – to make a point-of-terror. Even if we include all violent deaths, indeed all deaths (including deaths from disease, natural disaster, and so on) deaths are greatly less than births – so a biological success.

    “But we have got fancy weapons” – which you will not use against civilian refugees so your fancy weapons are not relevant.

    The people of Yemen (see that all this is NOT about biological race – it is about culture) openly chant for the death of the West – not “just” the Jews, but all of the West.

    How does the West respond? Does it explode fuel-air munitions above the heads of the gatherings of hundreds of thousands of civilians in Yemen? Of course NOT – outside the imagination of Neil Oliver, the West does not target the civilians of Yemen at all. On the contrary it sends them food aid – so there can be bigger and bigger gatherings, over generations, chanting for the destruction of the Westerners.

    Indeed, for example, the United States welcomed in large numbers of people from Somalia (and other such lands) – and in the United States they, and their children and children’s children, continued to want to destroy the enemies of their culture and their religion (i.e. destroy Americans – and other Westerners).

    They are proud of their history and culture – and they arrive in a nation which is based on principles they hate, indeed despise, and (astonishingly) a nation whose education system and media (including entertainment media) are determined to destroy that nation – indeed the whole Western world.

    The reaction is natural “our enemies have gone insane – they are destroying themselves, they are helping us in our sacred task of destroying them”.

    No warning will help – indeed anyone who tries to warn will be punished as a “racist” (even though this is nothing to do with biological race) or an “Islamophobe” (even if they rather admire many elements of Islam).

    Even the savage criminal gangs of Latin America (nothing to do with biological race, and nothing to with Islam) are welcomed into the United States – by every powerful institution, government and corporate. The Latin American nations are, quite understandably, quite happy to get rid of the worst of their population – the, robbers, murderers, rapists and so on.

    And everyone of power (government power, corporate power, church power – whatever) in the United States is delighted to receive them.

    So it is a “win-win”.

    Apart from for the taxpayers robbed (plundered) to pay for the benefits and services government (Federal, State and local government – before the late 20th century they gave nothing to illegal migrants, and almost nothing to legal migrants, but in the 1960s this started to change) give to the migrants (the migrants that various Latin American nations are delighted to see leave – and understandably so) – and apart from the people raped and murdered.

    The international establishment elite is fixated on destroying the various Western nations – they think this will lead to a happy world, they are mistaken but one can not reason with them, they will just respond to any warning with screams of “racist!”, “Islamophobe!” or whatever, and seek to punish the person trying to give the warning.

  • Paul Marks

    Kirk.

    The Soviet Union was the first country on Earth to legalize abortion – and to attack the family.

    “Stalin” (as you know – not his real name) even though he murdered tens of millions of people, thought things were going too far, and actually tried to pull back on abortion and smash-the-family and all the rest of it, but in the 1950s (after his death) abortion was legalized again.

    Mr Putin? He is a LARPing as a Russian patriot (it is not what he really is) – in reality the baby killing (and all the rest of it) carries on in Russia, just as all this carries on in the dying West, dying since the Progressive Social Revolution of the 1960s – a social revolution pushed by people from a school of thought that even Stalin thought was too extreme – after all, even this blood thirsty tyrant wanted to rule a functioning society, and “Critical Theory” (as it is called now) reduces everything to ashes.

  • Paul Marks

    It must be remembered that the international establishment (including the American branch – which controls the government, the vast corporations, the education system, the media, the “mainline” churches, and-so-on) is fanatically determined to destroy all self governing nation-states.

    However, if they destroy the United States the other Western nations, sadly much smaller and weaker, will be easy to destroy – so America is their number one target. If America falls – the rest of the West can not stand.

    The international establishment believe that the end of self governing nation-states will lead to a happier world – and a world under their control.

    They are wrong on both counts – the world will not be happier and it will not be under their control.

    They seek power – but they will end up with nothing but ashes.

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