ANATOMY OF A HATEMONGER

He will be angry at being called a hatemonger. Why? Because he wants to do hateful stuff and still be respected as a member of civilised society. Because after spreading hate, he waits for opportunities to call those people hateful who...

...call him out on his hate mongering. He wants to be called nice things while he does terrible things. He feels he is entitled to respect that he hasn't earned. He wants to be seen as a scholar despite having WhatsApp for a brain. He wants to be called civilised simply because..

...he claims his ancestors were civilised. He wishes to remain untouched by the consequences of his hateful rhetoric because if that doesn't happen, he says, he is being targeted unfairly. The middle class hatemonger's defining characteristic is an unwillingness to take...

...responsibility. That and utter cowardice. Because while he is passionate about destroying the country's social fabric, he also wants his pay cheque and benefits. So until a political party hires him and he can truly be himself, he will do his thing from behind fake names...

...on the internet. And if he's dumb enough to brag about his NRI status in his Twitter bio and gets called out, he will willingly become murga and suddenly start reciting the "all Indians are my brothers and sisters" school pledge. His entire existence is defined by the...

...privileges he enjoys. His victimhood is imaginary and adopted because he likes to feel like a victim - it goes nicely with his low self esteem. He wants to act like he is oppressed while he sips saffron cool-aid while watching the oppression of others. In summary, this is...

...someone defined by three qualities.

- Privilege
- Laziness
- Love of nice labels

When the hatemonger doesn't get what he wants, he responds in patently unimaginative ways.

He would have you believe that he is the real victim, he is the actual poor, he is the meritorious and hard-working tax-payer. And he will say that he is the only one of his kind. Everyone else is out to get him. Everyone hates him because he is so smart and so amazing.

The whole world is his enemy. Everyone except his favourite political party is out for his blood. He will literally turn against his own country in order to save his own ass. He will ruin his country's international reputation, he will call for imprisonment of his countrymen...

...and even the taking away of his own rights. He will even put the future of his own children at risk because his nation's sinking economy is less important than the hatred he defines himself by.

All he wants is to hate... while keeping his job, house, and car of course.