Dr. Helen, you ask, “…is Hater’s behavior to friends and family justified?”
If by “justified” you mean “the behavior has a healthy reason/explanation”, then I consider “Hater’s” behavior SICK SICK SICK.
OK, so she is NOT 100% “de-personalizing” Gov. Palin to isolate and deny her value as a human…yet I find “Hater’s” COMPREHENSIVE, VEHEMENT REJECTION of – what, “her hair, her personal style, her accent, her abilities as a mother, etc.”?!!? – virtually everything about Gov. Palin to be troubling.
Add to that “Hater’s” recognition of the impact on herself, “I’ve also begun to suffer personally and professionally. I bore my friends with my constant tirades against her, and am constantly distracted from my work by my need to continually update myself on the latest criticism, and indeed, ridicule, of her. In my hatred for her, I have begun to hate myself. … How do I stop?”
WHO WOULD SAY THIS IS “justified”?!
This letter seems to be an example of a fatal thinking fallacy in contemporary liberal/Leftist…err…”logic” [sic], in the sense that “identity politics” – as a part of the slow but steady takeover by the Far Left of the Democratic Party – suddenly has an existential crisis before itself with the candidacy of Gov. Palin.
Sorta like suddenly having the thought: “…bbbb buuuut but she can’t be a woman…she’s against abortion…she’s…she’s A REPUBLICAN!”
