On April 1, a manifesto was released stating that, in the face of hatred, “radical kindness is the most dangerous act we can uphold.”
Here is the link to sign it: Manifesto for Radical Kindness https://resist.es/peticiones/manifiesto-por-la-bondad-radical/
At Resist.es and Spanish Revolution, we maintain that kindness is neither an aesthetic choice nor an individual quality. It is a conscious political stance against a system that relies on fear, fragmentation, and symbolic violence to sustain itself.
The question is no longer whether hate exists. The question is who produces it, who amplifies it, and who benefits from it.
Because hate is not spontaneous. It is an infrastructure.
It is manufactured in media laboratories, distributed through algorithms designed to maximize emotional reaction, and turned into political and economic profit. Every hoax, every dehumanizing discourse, every narrative of confrontation serves a purpose: to divert attention, divide society, and protect the structures that concentrate power.
Hate is a business model.
And like any business model, it needs consumers. It needs clicks, it needs directed outrage, it needs someone to buy into that narrative and spread it. It needs you—anyone—to unwittingly participate in its value chain.
That is why this manifesto does not appeal to individual morality as a refuge. It appeals to collective responsibility as a breakthrough.
You, as a person, are not irrelevant within this system. You are a node. A transmission point. A space where it is decided whether hate circulates or stops.
Every time you share without verifying, you feed a structure. Every time you react from induced anger, you sustain a logic. Every time you accept a self-serving simplification, you legitimize a narrative.
But the opposite also happens.
Every time you pause, you interrupt the flow. Every time you challenge, you introduce friction. Every time you choose not to hate, you break a chain of profitability.
Radical kindness is, in this context, a practice of sabotage.
It is not naivety. It is awareness of how the mechanisms of hate production operate. It is understanding that polarization is not an accident, but a tool of governance. It is acknowledging that fear is a political resource and that there are those who manage it as an asset.
Rejecting hate is not withdrawing from conflict. It is reconfiguring it.
It is refusing to accept frameworks that reduce complexity to opposing camps. It is defying narratives that turn other people into threats. It is dismantling discourses that must dehumanize to function.
It is not about being neutral. It is about being precise.
Naming injustice without amplifying hatred. Denouncing abuse without reproducing the logic of the enemy. Pointing out responsibilities without falling into dehumanization.
Because the system needs us to confuse criticism with hatred, and justice with revenge.
Radical kindness establishes something else: an ethic of unyielding dignity.
Even when it’s uncomfortable. Even when it doesn’t generate immediate applause. Even when it isn’t profitable.
From a technical standpoint, this involves active media literacy. Understanding how recommendation algorithms work, how information bubbles are constructed, how disinformation campaigns operate. It involves recognizing patterns: extreme simplification, the constant appeal to fear, the creation of vague enemies.
It also involves building alternatives.
Verified information networks. Spaces for conversation not captured by the logic of confrontation. Communities that prioritize care over reaction.
Radical kindness is not passive. It is structural.
It organizes itself. It protects itself. It defends itself.
It is not enough simply not to hate. We must prevent hate from becoming the norm. It is not enough simply not to share hoaxes. We must dismantle the conditions that make them effective. It is not enough simply not to fall into polarization. We must call out those who manufacture it.
This manifesto is an invitation to take that stand.
To understand that every everyday gesture has a political dimension. To recognize that indifference is also a form of participation. To consciously choose which dynamics are reproduced and which are interrupted.
Because in an ecosystem designed to turn hate into profit, deciding not to hate is an act of insubordination.
And in a world that needs us to be afraid in order to function, radical kindness is the most dangerous act we can sustain.
