ADL Creates An ATL

Mr_ Bondoc · Mar 22, 2013

Here is an ad from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) which creates a fascinating ATL. Would Anyone be willing to help put together an ATL that has the following happen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KyvlMJefR4

Hominid · Mar 22, 2013

A nice video, but I don't see what the POD would be.

Jcw3 · Mar 22, 2013

Hominid said:
A nice video, but I don't see what the POD would be.

Hate disappears from human minds entirely on January 1, 1900? Although that would probably butterfly away the births of all of those people.

Hominid · Mar 22, 2013

Jcw3 said:
Hate disappears from human minds entirely on January 1, 1900? Although that would probably butterfly away the births of all of those people.

Also, if there is no hate, why would there be any need for things like "anti-bullying?"

Jcw3 · Mar 22, 2013

Hominid said:
Also, if there is no hate, why would there be any need for things like "anti-bullying?"

Bullying isn't necessarily 'hate', it's a way for the pitiful to degrade the weak to make themselves feel better. They don't dislike the victims, they just see a target and pick him/her out.

Mr_ Bondoc · Mar 22, 2013

I think the ad portrays more of an ATL wherein individual cases of hate were averted as opposed to the universal removal of hate from mankind.... Remember you still have hints of anti-Semitism, Al-Qaeda, et al....

Hominid · Mar 22, 2013

Jcw3 said:
Bullying isn't necessarily 'hate', it's a way for the pitiful to degrade the weak to make themselves feel better. They don't dislike the victims, they just see a target and pick him/her out.

Fair enough.

Mr_ Bondoc · Mar 22, 2013

Is there a way for a logical ATL with multiple PODs to explain the ATL shown in the ad? I am guessing that the intial POD would c. 1945....

Mr_ Bondoc · Mar 24, 2013

According to the Youtube video description, there is no single POD. In the description:

Join ADL in our Centennial Year as we Imagine a World Without Hate™, one where the hate crimes against Martin Luther King, Anne Frank, Matthew Shepard and others did not take place. Support us in the fight against bigotry and extremism by sharing this inspirational video and taking the pledge to create a world without hate at http://www.adl.org/imagine.

Mako-Chan · Oct 29, 2014

I vaguely recall a thread posted which was intended to be an inversion of For All Time. People's idea of a "significantly better" world included PODs like the USSR surviving into the 21st century, still authoritarian but without the ethnic cleansing of our 1990s. Even funnier, David Duke was a hardline "tankie" type Communist agitator. Needless to say, however vague the premise is I definitely think this thread has potential...