"If you tell a man that he hates his neighbor, when as a matter of fact he only mildly dislikes him or prefers not to be intimately associated with him, often enough he will presently begin the believe that he does hate him and will eventually end up by hating him."
Henry Pratt Fairchild, Race and Nationality as Factors in American Life (1947)*
Henry Pratt Fairchild was a prominent sociologist when sociologists were still sometimes sane. He made the foregoing comment in the course of cataloguing the counterproductive blunders with which friends of racial fusion tried to shame segregationists into joining their cause. One of these blunders was (and remains) "the use of such a word as 'hate' to apply to every degree of dislike, disapproval, or distaste." Fairchild suggests that the practice began around 1940, and mentions that, about that time, a liberal New York newspaper proposed that social conservatives be called "hatelers"
They were like hate and Hitler rolled into one.**
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