Random Thought – Haters

April 4, 2006 by Marc Lamont Hill

I love the word hater. It so perfectly describes people who literally HATE to see other people’s prosperity. You all know someone that doesn’t like you just because you’re attractive, smart, wealthy, popular, or just plain happy. I’m not sure why, but there’s something both sad and funny about seeing someone actually ANGRY that something is going well for you. I know the term can be overused –nowadays, you can’t criticize or dislike anything without being called a hater– but it’s still one of my favorites. What did we call haters before they were haters?

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14 Comments

1. Marc Lamont Hill wrote:

for whom were things going well?

April 4, 2006 @ 11:48 am

2. Dale J. Thomas wrote:

I believe the old word for hater used to be:

Jealous.

April 4, 2006 @ 12:39 pm

3. RWS wrote:

I agree, jealous doesn’t cut it. There is a pathology involved, its more than a reaction, its a disposition towards jealousy by throwing salt in people’s game which one clearly covets, it has to be specific to the subject of the hating, and the animousity (sp?) must be repitious (sp?) over time.

I’m sorry, I don’t write good after lunch. ‘Itus.

Dr. Hill, its time to incorporate a spell cheque up in this djoin’ (sp?)

April 4, 2006 @ 2:02 pm

4. ting wrote:

As defined by Marc: haters are people who are “actually ANGRY that something is going well for you”…

Hmm, since UConn is better off than DUKE, I guess that YOOOOU my friend would be ze hater of the year.

Another word for hater….transvestite monkey. show me your aol im and I’ll show you my frog.

April 4, 2006 @ 5:20 pm

5. Marc Lamont Hill wrote:

UConn is better of than Duke? Yeah right. Duke is and always will be the gold standard for college bball. as far as your vicious attack on lester, my aol emoticon, i will not dignifiy it with a response…

April 4, 2006 @ 6:14 pm

6. ting wrote:

you just did. show me your teeth and your moley mole.

April 4, 2006 @ 6:30 pm

7. SammyBee wrote:

San I’m with you. Who cares. None of us are making any money off these teams. Unless we got the perfect bracket or one of our daddies owns Nike.

April 4, 2006 @ 11:02 pm

8. Marc Lamont Hill wrote:

mwahahahhahahahahahahhhahahhahaha… zing!!! San – 1 Ting – 0

April 5, 2006 @ 12:28 pm

9. ting wrote:

LMAO!!! ok san, ok. Although ya’ll DO pump out some decent track athletes….o wait, no that’s that other school in D.C., Georgetown or something? Who knows, one of those small irrelevant universities. Hey, but ya’ll DO throw a meeean homecoming!!

April 5, 2006 @ 2:59 pm

10. ting wrote:

OOOooOOOOooo, OUCH SAN!

April 5, 2006 @ 3:10 pm

11. SammyBee wrote:

. . . . and then there was silence.

Or are those crickets chirping in the far distance.

April 5, 2006 @ 5:05 pm

12. Hal wrote:

Tell em Sans…No ONE can hate on an HBCU…EVVVAAAA!!!

April 7, 2006 @ 11:40 am

13. Marc Lamont Hill wrote:

Did Lincoln say something?

April 7, 2006 @ 2:16 pm

14. Benjamin wrote:

I’m not quite sure I understand that?
Then again it’s probably just me.

May 11, 2007 @ 3:35 pm

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