qotd, on hate
July 08, 2011
"What struck me with him, and with many of the conservatives I'd heard since the election, was his overblown, almost egocentric take on political outrage, his certainty that no one else had quite experienced it before. What, then, had I felt during the Bush-Cheney years? Was that somehow secondary? 'Don't tell me I don't know how to hate,' I wanted to say. Then I stopped and asked myself, Do you really want that to be your message? Think you can out-hate me, asshole? I was fucking hating people before you were even born!"
-- "Standing By" by David Sedaris in the Aug. 7, 2010 New Yorker.
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