Stop using "hate" when you mean "disagreement" (An opinion piece)

[GMDino]

(01-22-2019, 11:42 AM)Dill Wrote: Some "genuinely" hate Trump, but it's not like that comes out of nowhere.  He has done his best to offend many groups and to behave in hate-provoking ways.

What disturbs me about so many current defenses of Trump is their reversal of causal relation--supporters say people complain about Trump's misogynist and racist behavior because they just "hate" him in some personal sense, not because there is good reason to hate this behavior.

In their minds he appears divorced from accountability for his own actions and words, since those are not what "really" provoke Trump critics, who would "criticize him no matter what." 

Much Obama hatred was rather the opposite.  WORST PRESIDENT EVER because . . . why exactly? He behaved like a dictator . . . somehow?  Presided over seven years of economic growth--but not fast enough?  Got millions on healthcare, but some couldn't keep their doctors?

(01-22-2019, 11:45 AM)Dill Wrote: LOL I'll bet your mother can comprehend what she is seeing and feeling when she hears Trump call the porn star he paid off "horseface."

What sort of "logic" would change that?

I think lots of people who "hate" can come up with good "reasons" for it.  I just think those reasons may be good enough to want him out of office, or they may be exaggerated, but they don't rise to the level of "hate".

Again, that's a personal opinion.  I don't like Trump one bit.  I might even have said I hate him as a person.  I find him vile and narcissistic and devoid of empathy or an ability/desire to learn anything as he "knows" he knows better than everyone on all subjects.

Those are all emotional responses to how he talks and acts. 

But I still feel the word "hate" gets overused in discussions ABOUT those subjects.  Do I say Trump is a con man because I hate him?  No, I hate that he has conned so many good people.