Left concern about HRC is NOT "hatred"...it's about what we stand for as a party and a country

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

39. It's one of the favorite ad hom attacks of the centrist crowd.

They love to talk about 'being the only adult in the room' or 'the kids' or use various other infantilizations about people with whom they disagree or who don't sufficiently adore their preferred candidates or the policy choices they make, especially when those choices negatively impact most regular Americans. Somehow it's 'adult' to suck up to banks, corporations, the wealthy, and to leave the rest of America to 'pull itself up by its bootstraps'.

Casting any opposition as 'hatred' is simply another facet of the infantilization, proclaiming that any opposition comes from emotion rather than thought, and has the added bonus of often letting them proclaim opposition is tied to bigotry of one kind or another - racism, misogyny, homophobia, religious intolerance, whatever fits the current protected candidate, since hatred of 'x' is a defining part of those things.

The good thing is, whenever you see someone tossing around those 'hatred' or 'adult' dogwhistles out there, you know immediately that they don't have valid arguments, only tired old ad homs, and you can know they're not worth arguing with. (Unless you're completely bored, and can't think of anything better to do at the moment.)