Conservative podcast host Katie Miller is furious that some people in the United States are putting signs in their yards that read, “Hate Has No Home Here,” and she decided to vent her rage during an interview with Fox host Laura Ingraham.
“The most intolerant people are the ones who have lawn signs that say ‘Hate Has No Home Here,’” Miller told Ingraham. “That’s exactly where hate has a home in America.”
Miller conveniently neglected to mention that the person her husband — Stephen Miller, White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy — is one of the most hateful and despicable human beings on the face of the planet. He has routinely called for the mass deportation of immigrants and even advocated for the expulsion of American citizens who dare to disagree with his boss, so-called President Donald Trump.
When did it become wrong to suggest that hate is something that we should shun in this country? Love and tolerance are two of the main messages found in the Bible, which these so-called “good Americans” like Katie Miller claim to have read and try to practice in their lives.
But as Melina Much, a postdoctoral fellow at New York University’s Center for Social Media, AI, and Politics, told HuffPost, it sounds like Katie Miller is trying to “co-opt a progressive agenda and twist the narrative.”
This has happened in the past, Much pointed out, with groups taking “Black Lives Matter” and tweaking it to “All Lives Matter,” and when conservative influencer Nick Fuentes took “My Body, My Choice” and said, “Your Body, My Choice.”
“What’s happening in [Miller’s] statement is the same sort of undercarriage of using these really high-profile, kind of viral language, and trying to reshape who has the moral high ground, and replace the blame,” Much said. “A lot of these progressive narratives are about this sense of morality and who has the moral high ground. [This] is trying to shift it back on itself or do this inversion.”
In other words, if you disagree with your opponent, adopt their language and use it for your purposes, even if your purposes are the exact opposite.
Katie Miller and her ilk are haters. They hate anyone they disagree with, and they hate anyone who refuses to join their right-wing march to oblivion.
Hate does have a place. It should be directed at those who make careers out of demonizing others for their own selfish gain.
