How to Create a Hater

by Sue Greenwald, M.D.

These are my own personal thoughts and do not represent anyone else.

Back in the day, when corporate media was less programmed, I used to spend hours on Sunday reading the Omaha World Herald from cover to cover.

Then, in 2021, I co-founded the Protect Nebraska Children Coalition. I instantly became a “hater,” a word that previously was not in my vocabulary. I had reason to disagree with people, and I welcomed the debate as to why I disagreed, but hate was foreign to me.

Instead of reading the news, I became the news. It was a rapid lesson in how little the “news” is capable of reporting anything accurately, even the most basic of quotes. I have had quotes attributed to me by people I never spoke to. (Flatwater Free Press). I have been stalked in my home town by a national reporter desperate to confirm her narrative. (Washington Post). After they printed that our organization was “dark money”, I gave every detail of the finances of Protect Nebraska Children to a reporter whose paper refused to print them. (Omaha World Herald). Every local TV station that has reported on Protect Nebraska Children has used the words “hate group.”

Nobody who has anything real to say bothers with any of them anymore. The entire reason you are reading my words on Substack is because there was no other way to tell our story other than to do it ourselves.

Today’s media is only interested in creating heroes and villains, and fomenting the drama between them. In fine critical theory fashion, everyone belongs to a tribe of some sort. According to the narrative, public schools are unfailingly virtuous, and Protect Nebraska Children is a “hate group” intent on the destruction of public schools. Librarians are “inclusive” and mothers objecting to pornography are “book burners.”

No one is allowed to speak for themselves; they must speak for their tribe. If they don’t have a tribe, they must be assigned to one. Media believes in critical theory. Critical theory is the opposite of free speech.

Substack is one of the few places I know of where you can find real, uncensored news today. Monday through Saturday my first read is Jeff Childer’s Coffee and Covid. I enjoy the raw local political commentary of Andrew’s Thinking Newsletter. For more balanced national news there is Bari Weiss at The Free Press, and Matt Taibbi’s Racket News. Find your own favorites and judge their veracity for yourself. That’s the beauty of free speech.

My new Sunday morning appointment is with Nebraska’s own Stephany at The Awakened Patriot. Stephany goes to the trouble of collating the news of the week sans the leftist propaganda.

Today she shared a video interview between Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson. You may be one of the millions who has seen it. If not, here it is.

The media wants to make this issue an X war between Candace and Ben Shapiro. That narrative really cheapens the controversy. Reasonable people can agree or disagree with points made by each of them.

October 7th happened. I’m not picking sides here. There are probably Gazans who have a legitimate beef with Israel. However, when Gaza chose a terrorist organization to represent them, they lost some moral high ground.

The thing that surprised so many people in America, even progressive Jews, is the degree to which the struggle was immediately embraced by college students who have no connection to the battle. To people paying attention, it wasn’t a surprise, it was inevitable.

This secular humanist culture has been inculcated into students for decades, but has accelerated since 2019, when “Transformational” SEL began to unapologetically promote Marxism.

School children are being taught that they are evil oppressors if they are white, Christian or Jew, heterosexual, and believe they are inhabiting the correct body. The oppressed are everyone else. Children are being taught that oppressors deserve to be hated, raped, murdered, and tortured, as Hamas claims against Israel.

Even students in middle school, desperate to escape the “oppressor” label, will do anything to claim a victim profile, otherwise known as “intersectionality.” A person who is black, gay, transgender and Muslim would be hitting the intersectionality jackpot. The white students can’t change their skin color, but they CAN denounce their religion, their sexual orientation, or their gender, thus comfortably becoming a victim like everyone “good.” It isn’t an accident that a 2021 CDC survey reports that 26% of youth now claim to be some form of LGBTQ.

K-12 students are being taught through Social Emotional Learning that morality is fluid, and the oppressors deserve what they get. Stores deserve to be looted. Jews deserve to be barred from attending their college classes. An elderly Jewish man at a protest rally deserved to be killed.

Man-on-the-street interviews have revealed that many of the “Palestinian” protesters have no idea what a Palestinian is. They just know that they are against oppression. It has become a Pavlovian response.

These often clueless college students who lost their internships or job opportunities due to their rabid reaction to the bloodshed, can’t understand why the grown-ups are so angry. They are merely following the rules of intersectionality, and those rules have never steered them wrong before.

I have to admit to having a moment of glee at their distress. The privileged snowflakes are getting a little taste of the cancel culture they so readily dish out.

In the Candace Owens video, she warns us against becoming the cancel culture. I took her words to heart. Being ostracized has never softened anyone’s stance. These seemingly brainwashed ivy league students will still be tomorrow’s influential leaders, because they already have the money and the power. We will be stuck with them for a long time.

Candace talked about the millionaire donors who are so shocked by the anti-semitism that they are pulling their money out of prestigious universities. She pointed out truthfully, that while they have a right to financially support whomever they choose, they had no issues with financing the collegiate anti-white hatred for all these years. Their current virtue signaling therefore falls a little flat.

In summary, these recent events explain my passion to continue the fight against the Marxist radicalization of students that our schools are pursuing with renewed vigor. Wittingly or unwittingly, the intersectionality-based doctrine is the new state religion. We are creating millions of Pavlovian haters. The resulting civil unrest is as predictable as the sun rising in the morning.

The author is a retired Pediatrician and co-founder of Protect Nebraska Children Coalition.