Creativity Quote by Cher

Hate crimes, Cher argues, don’t just terrify because they’re violent; they terrify because they come with a halo. The most chilling part isn’t the random cruelty, it’s the conviction behind it: the sense that the attacker isn’t merely lashing out but performing a duty. That’s a sharper diagnosis than the usual “fear of difference” framing, because it points to hate as a moral project, not a moral lapse.

The line works because it flips the expected villain. We like to imagine perpetrators as outliers, monsters, people who know they’re doing wrong. Cher drags the horror closer to the mainstream: if someone “really believe[s]” they’re right, they’re not improvising; they’ve been taught, affirmed, and armed with a story where harm becomes righteousness. That’s how hate scales up from a single assault to a climate of intimidation. It’s also how communities get pulled into complicity: belief doesn’t require a hood; it can wear a smile, a slogan, a “common sense” joke.

Coming from a pop icon with a long history of outspoken LGBTQ+ advocacy, the bluntness is the point. Cher isn’t offering policy language; she’s translating an abstract social crisis into a gut-level truth her audience can’t politely ignore. The subtext is a warning about normalization: when bigotry becomes “right,” it stops needing secrecy, and starts recruiting. The fear isn’t just what they’ll do tonight, it’s what they’ll feel licensed to do tomorrow.