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Tuesday, April 10, 2007

On Haters. (Specifically: Who is Allowed to Have Them?)

Posted by on April 10 at 9:30 AM

Down in my Chris Crocker post from yesterday morning, there’s a high-minded discussion brewing about the threshold for claiming to have haters.

Can the common man (and woman) claim to have haters? Or is it a privilege/affliction reserved for the the infamous, the famous, the mildly famous, and the somewhat known in some circles (including the writers and bloggers of this here publication)?

An excerpt:

I have to disagree with robotslave. No matter who you are or how insignificant you feel, there will always be someone out there ready to hate you.

Posted by mattymatt | April 9, 2007 03:52 PM

mattymatt, I think you deliberately elide the significant difference between having someone somewhere out there ready to hate oneself, and actually having so many vocal, antagonistic observers that one can say one “has haters.”

I would never say that most people don’t do anything hateworthy, or that people by and large don’t hate; I am suggesting, rather, that only public figures, or those with aspirations to fame, are at all likely to think they “have haters,” and reflexively use a phrase like “You Think You Have haters….”

Posted by robotslave | April 9, 2007 06:13 PM


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