In Our DNA

Regardless, Williams says bursting our online “filter bubbles” is essential to overcoming hatred. Williams avoids easy answers and worries that had his own life taken a different path, he could have been the one carrying out the hate attack rather than the victim. His point is that we all could.

We are born with hatred in our DNA, but how we direct it is learned. The onus is on us to reject influences, educate ourselves on other cultures, and call out hatred wherever we see it.