Most hated player poll

[xxSnEaKyPxx]

For me, its always the dirty players. Seeing as Draymond is the dirtiest of the bunch, I'll go him. Embiid isn't far behind though.

[ken6199]

Overall I don't think we really meaningfully hate any of those players. Hate is something I would reserve for some of the politicians who CHOSE to ruin our country and generations of lives.

Ok, this is a little off-topic, but I was very surprised to see how seriously that several posters take the word “hate.” I have been known to say that I hate broccoli or Mondays, but I don’t literally hate either thing, and I don’t expect listeners to believe that I do. I use the word “hate” as an exaggerated term (here, on a board full of exaggerations) to mean I strongly dislike them, perhaps indicating more dislike than the average person.

Several posters felt they needed to post that they were taking the word hate literally and to tell us that they don’t literally hate anyone. I wonder if this was because they are younger people conditioned to do this because of culture? Or in Ken’s case here, a need to tell people you don’t hate individual people, unless they are members of unpopular groups to the masses. Dangerous.

Words are only tools, and we give them the power that we choose. Maybe I’m naive, but I believe there is little true hatred towards others in the world, regardless of groups using the word for their own propaganda. Maybe there is a belief in the younger people that “Well, I don’t hate, but so many OTHER people do.” Did anyone truly take the OP’s title to mean that he, or any of us, truly hate any nba player? I was surprised how many responders felt they needed to tell us that they don’t literally “hate” anyone.

First of all, my bad for using politicians as example. I admit I was triggered by those recent geopolitical events around the world especially in middle east and across Europe. I was trying to differentiate my feeling towards those people with real evil intention with severe consequences of their policies, from guys like Draymond who at worst managed to bust one of Steve Adam's nuts. At the time of writing that was the best reference I could grab from my basic instinct.

We all have different interpretation about certain words. Some of us felt the need to state the obvious that nobody really hate NBA players, myself included, some took default that when OP wrote "hate" he didn't really mean resentful hate, that's okay. This is a basketball forum, so as long as we stick to basketball as a sport or entertainment business there is nothing dangerous about it.

For what is worth, during my 8 year moderation on the general board I indeed have seen some real hate towards athletes. There are posters who negatively dwell on certain players for years and won't let it go. I guess that was another reason I felt the need to differentiate hate and dislike.

[NJC]

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