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Assignment 13

In Sara Ahmed’s article, “Affective Economies,” she discusses her views on emotion and states that it’s not hate that makes people react to things in a certain way but it’s actually love. According to the narrative in the beginning of the article, its the love for the nation that makes the white supremacist hate others who they recognize as strangers because they’re taking away their jobs and their future in a way. Hate doesn’t make people act a certain way but love does. The love of the nation makes people who love it act out of hate when their nation is being threaten. It interesting to think that people hate actually comes from love. The correlation between love and hate is odd but makes a lot of sense. Love is what makes people act with hate toward others because they’re defending what they love. When people feel like their nation is being threaten or their jobs they start to form hatred toward what is threaten it. According to Ahmed the hatred people express is form within them and it express outward toward people, places and objects. Ahmed argues that fear works to give people a sense of being overwhelmed and makes them feel like they can’t achieve to be contained. She states that people fear certain object in an effort to avoid dealing with the true and bigger cost of their fear. According to Ahmed emotions are within us and dealing with our emotion isn’t the problem but the subject of it, is almost like our emotion are the victim. Our emotions are what makes us do what we do on a daily base and our emotions are what makes us form opinion on things and people, it’s hard not to form opinion on things when we let our emotions blur our judgement.