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Who do we hate this week?

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Whitewavemark2 Fri 25-Nov-22 19:35:49

I saw this on twitter and it so resonates with me.

“Can someone tell me who we are supposed to be hating this week please?

Is it the nurses, railway workers, teachers, or immigrants, and of course we hate the EU all the time.

It is so difficult to keep up”

LadyGracie Wed 30-Nov-22 17:47:43

Too many to mention

growstuff Wed 30-Nov-22 18:50:41

Whitewavemark2

DaisyAnne

GrannyGravy13

I’m a lover not a hater

smile

I think we all like to think that, but those hoping to create division are betting that many of us are not and easily led.

Migrants anyone?

Hatred of migrants is endemic and normalised.

GrannyGravy13 Wed 30-Nov-22 19:36:18

growstuff I hope you are speaking for yourself regarding hatred of migrants as you are not speaking for me.

I object to criminal gangs, people traffickers and those who wish to do harm to others.
object not hate

DaisyAnne Wed 30-Nov-22 20:00:51

It seems Sunak is attacking parents who send their children to State schools. There was a definite "look at their lack of aspiration" in PMQs.

Callistemon21 Wed 30-Nov-22 20:10:16

Football pundits. They go on and on ......

Why, just why?

Oreo Wed 30-Nov-22 20:12:35

Binmen this week, mine left one bin full up and emptied the other one angry

Nightsky2 Wed 30-Nov-22 20:40:27

Sainsbury’s for not having my favourite biscuits when I was there today. Empty shelf where they should have been.

growstuff Wed 30-Nov-22 20:47:20

GrannyGravy13

growstuff I hope you are speaking for yourself regarding hatred of migrants as you are not speaking for me.

I object to criminal gangs, people traffickers and those who wish to do harm to others.
object not hate

No, I wasn't speaking for myself at all - nor you. However, look around you - even on GN - and it's not hard to find hatred of migrants.

Deedaa Wed 30-Nov-22 20:50:11

DaisyAnne I think he also made an idiotic remark about how wonderfully state schools had performed during Covid? He appears to think that, because they just about coped with that, they don't need the sort of help he's pouring into private schools.

vegansrock Wed 30-Nov-22 20:54:40

Police, firefighters, doctors, nurses, paramedics, teachers, intellectuals, French, Germans, Scots Nationalists, Irish, Welsh you name it…… any other non English nationality

growstuff Wed 30-Nov-22 20:56:29

Firefighters are probably a new entrant as a group.

Patsy70 Wed 30-Nov-22 20:57:09

British Gas for their inefficiency.

vegansrock Wed 30-Nov-22 21:33:26

Last time firefighters had a strike the right wing press loved to tell us that they spend their days playing snooker and head off to their second job after their relaxing shift.

Mattsmum2 Wed 30-Nov-22 21:38:04

Hate is such a strong word that seems to have reduced in strength over recent years. I have never hated anyone or anything, not even people who have done me harm . I might be in a minority but life’s too short to hate something you have absolutely no way of changing or influencing 🤷🏻‍♀️

NotTooOld Wed 30-Nov-22 22:42:12

The government as a whole. Chocolate teapots some to mind.

NotTooOld Wed 30-Nov-22 22:42:26

come not some

Zoejory Wed 30-Nov-22 22:46:06

I blame the Internet

Callistemon21 Wed 30-Nov-22 22:55:59

I don't hate the football pundits.

They just annoy me and I do have an off switch.

DaisyAnne Wed 30-Nov-22 23:03:32

Mattsmum2

Hate is such a strong word that seems to have reduced in strength over recent years. I have never hated anyone or anything, not even people who have done me harm . I might be in a minority but life’s too short to hate something you have absolutely no way of changing or influencing 🤷🏻‍♀️

I think the OP was more about "hate" as in what the newspapers (and some on GN) think we should group together, blame and hate.

It's a very old instrument of propaganda which we seem to have seen much more of in the last dozen or so years.

nanna8 Thu 01-Dec-22 03:32:58

People who ring you and try to scam you. I have stopped answering the phone to anyone who’s name doesn’t appear now. If they don’t leave a message, bad luck.

Lovetopaint037 Thu 01-Dec-22 04:34:16

The players of “music”over dialogue on tv.

Mamardoit Thu 01-Dec-22 06:50:57

Anyone who leaves a banana skin in shopping trolley.

The planning committee of the local council. I'm starting to think talk of brown envelops could sadly be true. And are they really all in the same free mason lodge? Is it called a lodge?

I don't think I do hate. It's a mixture of anger and despair for me. There must be some good people in politics and in the media but the trash is all we get to see.

If I hate it's for real evil....anyone who is cruel to children, rapists and the like.

Aveline Thu 01-Dec-22 07:06:12

Judging by some responses on another thread we hate tactless old ladies who get it wrong in a woke world. We're allowed to hate them of course because they're white.

eazybee Thu 01-Dec-22 07:15:29

I hate twitter.
It does untold damage.

Mamardoit Thu 01-Dec-22 07:49:57

Aveline

Judging by some responses on another thread we hate tactless old ladies who get it wrong in a woke world. We're allowed to hate them of course because they're white.

Best just to leave them to it.