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“We have always been at war with East Christmas”.

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Indeed. It’s a weird canard that if you “hate“ some individual that means something negative about you. Certainly there are people who are full of hatred, who wallow in it by imagining acts of cruelty toward the people they hate. Whether it’s an individual or in the case of bigots, a group. But there’s an effort to massage ‘being made angry by a terrible person’ into the same thing as that kind of wallowing, fetid hatred. I would readily say I hate all kinds of individual people who have power and do bad things. But I don’t sit around imagining bad things being done to them by me or anyone else. (Even these abusive landlords I had once I wished that they would die. But I didn’t want to see them die. I wanted it to happen in a car crash and then a lawyer would come and tell us about it later. And then I would never have to be verbally abused by them again.)

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