hate

Yesterday i was wearing a shirt that displayed liberal ideas, then another person that had extremely conservative ideas approached me. I knew him but usually did not converse with him, and he said to me "I hate liberals." So I tried to talk but whenever I did he would cut me off. When I finally was able to get a word in I said "I disagree with you, however I do not hate you and if you would like to have an intelligent discussion I will engage with you, however if you simply keep on insulting me I will not have any respect for you." First: there is a difference between disagreeing with someone and hating someone and if you do hate someone because they have different views than you you are no better than Hitler himself. Second: I am extremely liberal, however I do not hate anyone because they are consevative, maybe if they're rude, mean, or even just a jackass i will hate them but if you have a different political standing from me I won't hate you. Third: I have heard people say things like "I hope Obama gets murdered," and things of that nature very often, first wow... just wow, and second: if McCain would have won the election I would have been very dissapointed, but I would not of wished death upon him, I would want him to simply fix my country. So I leave you with this thought have you ever hated someone because they disagree with you, and if you have did you hate them because they disagreed with you or because you didn't understand their philosophy?