A Defence of Hatred

On Friday, Australian economist Rafe Meager posted “Ugly Milkshake Duck”, a blog post about “Elon, X and twitter, fascism and myself” that they’d “been trying to write … for 3 full years”. Some of its points I needed time to think through, but there were so many good ones that deserved to be read and shared widely that I promptly posted it to Metafilter, then pulled out some quotes to start a conversation: The problem is not hatred. I do not mind if people hate me. I don’t like it, but it doesn’t affect me very much. I hate a lot of people, and not always for excellent reasons, but that is my business. What matters is what I feel entitled to do with that hate. ¶ Excessive desire for safety is far more dangerous because it feels so right and so righteous. And from the same section: I think we argue about the Elon Musk nazi salute because we can’t argue about the Elon Musk USAID thing, because the meaning of the Elon Musk USAID thing is unequivocal, and we do not want to be intimate…

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