I would respect you if ypou would just come right out and admit you extreme hatred of haters!
I accept haters as a given in any society. I've heard enough racist, anti-semitic, anti-muslim, anti-Italian, anti-polish, anti-catholic, anti-pakistani, anti-french, anti-christian, anti-black, anti-conservative, anti-liberal, etc, etc, etc rants in my day, that I know that there's a lot of folks with a lot of hostilities/dislike/hatred towards one group or another (witness the many ant-something rants here on FR). It's as old as time itself.
BTW, sometimes these dislikes/hatreds are based on reality and not just pulled out someones butt.
There are groups I intensely dislike. I just think our liberalized Oprahied society forces people to deny that they have these views.
I just felt that Mel should have stood up like a man and said, "yah, I stand by my remarks, and if you don't like it, go F#@k yourself". - I'd have thought he was a flamming arsehole, but I'd have respected him for it.