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Commenting on someone's performance, conversation, appearance, opinions or behaviour is not hate.
Even if the commentary is bitchy, nasty, unsparing, unwilling to give someone the benefit of the doubt, etc. it's not hate.
This modern habit of defining everything that's disagreeable as hate, is not only thoughtless and slightly moronic, it is actually dangerous.
Hatred is an incredibly powerful emotion. The word hate should be reserved for really serious situations. Hate is when you want to do real damage to somebody, you want to kill them or make them suffer.
Finding them irritating enough to switch channels doesn't come close to what hate means.
If everyone casually uses that word about everyone they disagree with, not only does it become more difficult to recognize actual dangerous hate when you see it, but it creates social conditions which make real life much more dangerous as people write each other off as people who hate them. I would avoid anyone who hates me because I would assume that they are dangerous to me.
Please can we stop being so hyperbolic in our language. Mumsnet used to be a place where people were careful about how they expressed themselves and it was one of the reasons it was an oasis of intelligent conversation in the idiocy of the internet.
I haven't seen any expressions of hatred against MM . I've seen distaste, dislike, boredom, revulsion, but no one has expressed a wish to see her suffer or die or wished any harm on her, which is what you do if you actually hate someone.
Sorry to go on but it's a pet hate of mine, (see what I did there?) this dangerous and fascistic characterization of disagreement as hate. I wish people would be more adult and stop doing it.