> In fact, the author doesn't mention hating these people at all

The article opens with:

>> There's a special kind of contempt I reserve for the person who says, "I have nothing to hide."

Which isn't literally saying "I hate them" but I'm not sure how else to interpret "a special kind of contempt." Regardless, I've edited my original post.

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nkrisc 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Why not interpret contempt as “contempt”, which is not “hate”?

	▲	Wowfunhappy 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		I didn't do it consciously. When I wrote my original post, I'd hallucinated that the author had used the term "hate". When Advael responded "the author doesn't mention hating these people at all", I went back to the article and checked. Advael was right, but I can understand where my hallucination came from. The first three sentences read: > There's a special kind of contempt I reserve for the person who says, "I have nothing to hide." It's not the gentle pity you'd have for the naive. It's the cold, hard anger you hold for a collaborator. A "special kind of contempt" mixed with "cold, hard anger" really seems like hatred to me. (Anyway, this really isn't the point I was trying to make.)

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filterfish 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Contempt is very different to hate.

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abc123abc123 2 days ago | parent [-]

It is very interesting, in our polarized times, what people read into a statement, and if they interpret it charitably or in the worst possible way. Like you, I find contempt and hate very different.

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faidit 2 days ago | parent [-]

The author clarifies a couple sentences later that the contempt they feel is "the cold, hard anger you hold for a collaborator" - "collaborator" apparently meaning something like the very bad WWII kind of collaborator, rather than the benign artistic co-author kind. So, despite the implicit acknowledgement that there are multiple types of contempt, this particular contempt does sound fairly close to hatred.

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rpdillon 2 days ago | parent [-]

No, it sounds like contempt and anger, which is why I suspect the author used those words.

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faidit 2 days ago | parent [-]

Look up the definition of "hate". How is "cold, hard anger" like one might feel toward a N*zi collaborator not adjacent to that? Why quibble over this?

	▲	scoofy 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Geez, what an insane semantic debate. The author clearly has strong, negative emotions towards the people this article is about. Folks who want to nitpick the technicality of these terms are just misunderstanding how language works.