Who are the Haters? - An Internet Search

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[zencycler]

Every so often, we hear accusations from one group leveled against another that THEY are the party of HATE. From my experience, this charge is usually made by the left against the right, with little or no empirical evidence for the charge other than the opinion of the person making the charge.

So it occurred to me that, with so many people posting to internet message boards, like this one, which become part of a searchable database of emotion, that a somewhat scientific survey could be conducted of just which group of people are hate-filled toward others. Therefore, I undertook to enter simple search terms in Google, and I have listed the results below. You should find this interesting.

Search Term / Results

"I Hate Left Wing" / 5
"I Hate Right Wing" / 722

"I Hate the Left" / 37
"I Hate the Right" / 51

"I Hate Liberal" / 32
"I Hate Conservative" / 55

"I Hate Clinton" / 169
"I Hate Bush" / 3290 (Let's assume half [1645] for each one)

"I Hate Communism" / 153
"I Hate Capitalism" / 293

"I Hate Criminals" / 52
"I Hate Cops" / 1260

"I Hate Pro-Choice" / 0
"I Hate Pro-Life" / 6

"I Hate Anti Life" / 0 ("Pro Abortion" also 0)
"I Hate Anti Abortion" / 2

"I Hate Women" / 2570
"I Hate Men / 5670

"I Hate Atheists" / 101
"I Hate Religion" / 1190


A little off topic, but I'll end on a nice note:

"I Hate America" / 2840
"I Love America" / 18400

[AmishDude]

How would you interpret "I hate George Steinbrenner"?

[wimpycat]

I would interpret that as "all is well".

[kcar]

"I hate my parents" - 1,930 I love my parents - 5,880

"I hate kids" - 2,120 I love kids - 15,300

"I hate teachers" - 718 I love teachers - 179

"I hate love" - 2,740 "I love hate" - 1,860

"I hate my Dad" 1,060 "I love my Dad" 4,720

[Farnham]

Pfffffft!
Exactly

[demlosers]

"I Hate America" / 2840

Google:

Searched the web for "I hate America". Results 1 - 10 of about 3,030. Search took 0.16 seconds

The search went up another to 190 hits.

[Farnham]

Results 1-1 of about 1 containing ""I am a Progresive""
Results 1-15 of about 5698 containing ""I am a Conservative""
Results 1-15 of about 4439 containing ""I am a Liberal""
Results 1-15 of about 384458 containing ""I Like Ike""
Results 1-15 of about 3410463 containing ""I Like cats""
Results 1-15 of about 5061048 containing ""I Like dogs""

MSN Search
At least Ike beats cats.

[KCmark]

funny

[VadeRetro]

At least Ike beats cats.

384458 < 3410463

It's cats, by nearly an order of magnitude.

[Farnham]

Getting old, ya know. I was subtracting the people who like dead cats.

[demlosers]

I hate my life - 13,700

Dr. Kervorkian has a future when he gets out of jail.

Google:
Searched the web for "I hate myself". Results 1 - 10 of about 43,700. Search took 0.15 seconds

There's room for at least a couple more Kervorkian.

[Jorge]

And the point of this thread is what??

Nothing. Forget it.

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

I hate everything: 12900. That means there are 12900 people who think JUST like ME!

That's enough for a giant congregation. Or, in Texas Baptist country, at least a modest-sized house church.

Quick, file under 501(c)3 -- "First Church of Laz, PANTAPHOBE".
You may never pay taxes again.

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Of course, there's always the danger that the Feds will declare your house "Church" to be a Militant Compound and burn it to the ground, but life is full of risks...

[GOPJ]

Good job, you showed truth to democrat lies. Democrats hate facts.

[anncoulteriscool]

PapaJohnMN Since Jun 13, 2003

[zencycler]

You should forward this to Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, et al.

Thanks. I got some freepmail from another freeper who went ahead and did that for me :)

[zencycler]

I liked your idea of the site search. Although, to be perfectly fair, comments from Republicans about Clinton is "not my president" were likely more frequent during his presidency, and hence may have been aged out of google's search capabilities.

[VadeRetro]

Part of why the cats did so well: funny_cats.wmv. (Caution: **2 MB movie download**)

[zencycler]

Perhaps this'll make you feel better:

"I Hate Dogs" / 1290

"I Hate Cats" / 5540


(Although I wonder how many hits on "Hate Cats" was referring to the Broadway show)

[tuna_battle_slight_return]

Good job. I agree with all of these except cops. I hate cops. They are terrorists.