Letters to the Editor
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Translation Exercise (hurried and perhaps incomplete)
Don’t be hating, Hunthorse reminds us, whether you are upfront about it or disguise it. If you are jealous of another’s wealth or achievements, don’t be a hater. He also reminds us that if someone is not like us or did not turn out like we thought they should, we should not hate them. He is thinking of Bush, of course. He also thinks Chris Dodd has too much education. He thinks Al Gore was fat and believes that global warming is our greatest problem, and that Gore was beaten by Bush in the presidential election. He thinks some liberal posters on this thread have been hoodwinked by Ted Kennedy, John (married to Teresa Heinz) Kerry, and Chris Dodd, amongst others, because these people consider Bush a traitor to their class. I can infer from this, legitimately, I think, that he must conclude that some of the posters claims here have no merit because they are motivated by this complicated state of mind.
Were he in my logic class, I would ask him, with all respect, to consider the arguments that the posters are making, and not the hypothetical motivation for those arguments. I would tell him that arguments stand or fall on their own merits.
I would also tell him that I, too, do not want to be hater.