I can’t say I hate anyone that distant from me unless they have the ability to do bad things at scale. Most celebrities can’t.
Hate is a very personal thing for me. Anger, less so. Disgust, certainly applicable to celebrities. But hate, it has to be something huge to make that rise in me.
Usually, that’s only going to happen when a celebrity crosses into power, usually via politics. I don’t consider politicians as celebrities just by virtue of being well known.
So, I think you can kinda guess the kind of people that do enough nastiness to spark hate for me. The trumps and musks of the world, the rowlings.
Ngl though, I’m not sure how casual this can be. I can’t do casual hate. Hate, for me, is very distinctly not casual, even on the scale of famous people I’ll never have a reason or opportunity to give my hate to. I can’t just hate some asshole for cutting me off in traffic, or flipping me off. That’s just annoyance or anger. Hate is a thing of lasting enmity and malice. The kind of thing that lasts even after the person is no longer in a position to do anything like what caused the hate in the first place.
On a real level, hate is a willingness to do very unpleasant things to a person. Not in the moment, as a flash of anger. It’s a thing to make that person suffer just because they’re so vile it outweighs any moral or ethical considerations.
That’s not something to indulge in lightly.
Zachary Levi has to be one of the absolute least likable celebrities out there. From his vocal anti-vax views to his weird Christian libertarianism to his support of RFK Jr, every time he lets more about himself and his views be known the less I ever want to see him in another project again let alone hear another interview.
I just googled. Fucking hell. Pfizer is dangerous, likes Jordan Peterson, shitty comments about LGBT… what a twat
What counts as a celebrity? Does Tate fit the bill?
I’d say yes. I fucking hate him too praying he does jail
He’s more likely to get a job in the US government.
Jared Leto creeps me the fuck out. He’s weird, really weird and theres been rumours for years. I saw a news article today saying he’s been accused of sexually assaulting minors FINALLY.
Most of them tbh, it feels so disconnected from reality that it feels gross.
Edit: Jared Leto it gross af tho
Kanye West. When he started, he had such a voice. Even if his voice was excessive when he said George Bush hated black people. He wasn’t entirely wrong. So the dude that had the opportunity to raise an important issue, and decided to use that voice to spread white supremacy. Fuck that guy. I hope everything he eats from now on tastes like piss.
Jackie Chan. CCP shill.
Hate to watch, at least - Lucas Black. I have no idea how that man gets any role. He perpetually sounds like he’s auditioning for his first grade school play.
I bear him no ill will, but I’m always annoyed when he pops up in something I’m otherwise enjoying.
Trump
Amber Heard. She acts evil, she gives off an evil vibe. The court hearings just proved my suspicions.
There isn’t a single person on Earth that I hate. There are some I dislike, and some who might genuinely be doing the world a service by dying, but I don’t hate any of them. As someone who doesn’t believe in free will, hate just isn’t an emotion that fits within my worldview. It wouldn’t make logical sense to hate someone when I don’t believe they could have been any different. Hate seems to assume a kind of agency on the other person’s part that I don’t think exists. I basically see hating a person as an equivalent to being angry at the weather.
If someone is doing a disservice to the world by dying, that means they were doing good in life. That was a good person.
You may not celebrate the death of a horrible person, which is a questionable stance in itself, but if you can’t find hate in yourself when genocide is ongoing? Are you even human? Hate exists whether you like it or not.
I’m sorry, but if you can’t hate hate, then you’re the problem. Hate absolutely should be hated. And if you don’t hate those that do such wrong, then you’re culpable and deserving of hate yourself.
You seem to be interpreting my lack of hatred as indifference or approval, when in reality, it’s grounded in a very different view of human behavior - one where actions are the result of conditions and causes, not some freely chosen moral stance.
I never said I don’t recognize harm, or that I think people shouldn’t be held accountable. What I said is that hate, as an emotion, presupposes a kind of agency I don’t believe people actually have. It’s not about letting people off the hook - it’s about understanding that even the worst acts come from a long chain of causes, not spontaneous evil.
You’re of course free to feel whatever you feel. But telling me that I’m “deserving of hate” for not feeling hatred myself isn’t a moral argument - it’s just another form of the thing you’re supposedly standing against.
EDIT: Even if we set aside the question of free will, there’s still a strong case against hate purely from a pragmatic standpoint. Sure, hate can fuel action - but it also clouds judgment, makes people reactive, and often leads them to lash out rather than act with clarity. I don’t think you need to hate someone to stand against them. In fact, I’d argue you’ll probably be more effective when you stay calm, focused, and rational. You can recognize evil, resist it, and work to stop it without being consumed by it. Hate burns hot but it burns stupid.
Thats true of leaders. But as a leader, it’s often beneficial to use the hate. Vlad the impaler used hate and extreme practices to instill such fear in the enemy that he is considered a defender and hero to this day.
I would say hate fueled Sherman’s march and my only lament for that is that they didn’t burn enough.
A lack of hatred towards hatred is indeed approval or support of hatred. You’re the “it’s not happening to me” person. A lack of resistance is support.
