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Re:Google cancelled a talk on caste bias by kergonath on Thursday June 02, 2022 @03:12PM (#31599295)
Yeah, it's mostly fear. I blame my lack of coffee at the time and my non-English mother tongue :)

Though the line between fear and hate is quite thin and blurry in human psychology. The arachnophobes I know do, in fact, hate spiders with a passion.

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Re:Google cancelled a talk on caste bias by HKH2 on Thursday June 02, 2022 @10:55PM (#31603720)
I was making a comment about the trend in general. Some native speakers also agree with your definition.

> Though the line between fear and hate is quite thin and blurry in human psychology.

In some instances it may be, although the word 'awe' has no sense of hatred in it.

> The arachnophobes I know do, in fact, hate spiders with a passion.

Okay, well how about snakes? I'm afraid of them but I don't think anybody is disgusted by them.

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Re:Google cancelled a talk on caste bias by ZeroGravitas on Friday June 03, 2022 @04:30AM (#31605713)
> although the word 'awe' has no sense of hatred in it.

Awful has some meanings that are close

https://www.etymonline.com/word/awful

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Re:Google cancelled a talk on caste bias by HKH2 on Friday June 03, 2022 @06:23AM (#31606481)
'awesome' does not.
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