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This series shows how under the right conditions people can manipulated and full horrors of killing. This is common knowledge, but the reasons why it still happening every year in some parts of the world and not always seen, till much later. Its a hard subject to film and even harder to judge what parts of history are worse or should have screen time. Parts of the reasons are when people suppress discrimination against people are willing to fight for their rights, Wars are about land, money, human rights and power and religion. This program also shows how we have to rise above hate and learn from hate to stop hate to become better smarter people.

I've been watching this series due to my curiosity of the human condition. While many of the points make sense broadly, the use of sound bites of President Trump and Sean Hannity, for instance, paint a biased picture that foment the hatred they hope to allay. It's so obvious this series was produced from a partisan perspective, rather than an open discussion that views this hatred on bipartisan terms. Both sides are guilty of hatred. If this series had true intention to give those guilty of extreme hatred food for thought, "Why We Hate" has sadly missed the mark.

I see that many people think this is a left wing documentary which is strange when it's just a global fact how we people react when leaders tell us what to do. We change our thoughts and normalize and think we are doing the right thing when we just follow a strong leader. Hate an violance dont getting us further. Very good documentary!

In this age of extremes, this documentary exposes the scientific reasons why humans tend to be irrational when it comes to their personal beliefs. Look at the comments here for example and you will see what I mean. The cinematography is very well done, with interesting shots and high quality digital enhancements of old videos. The main plot throughout the series is the weakness of the humans mind to stand up and refuse the group think (whatever this may be) and to think for oneself and see if it is really what the group says that it is. With many examples given (congo, experiments in psychology and much more) there is no doubt that this aspect is one of the most important things we need to overcome if we are going to live in a fair world. The series makes it very graphic and gritty with very extreme videos/images (real dead people, mass graves, blood etc.) to get the point across that we need to change if we are to survive as a species. I would recommend this to anyone who is wondering (like the title says), Why Humans Hate, and want to know what to do about it. If it weren't for the very graphical scenes I would even recommend it be viewed by teens in high school so they can be prepared and know what to look out for in group think ad other thinking fallacies.

Cut up clips of the president and insinuation that his supporters are bigots? What a disgrace of a show...

The act of prejudging a person based on a attribute is the root of tribalism. It's the same tribalism that brought slavery 200+ years ago. Today it has many different targets,but don't think for a second it's not the same philosophy. We teach our kids not to do this and then proceed to do it in academia, media and any place progressives live.

Judge a person by the color of their skin not the content of character. That is what was sorely missed by this activist film.