I Don't Hate You - #PelloweTalk
Channel: Dave Pellowe
Date: 06/09/2017

I wish I didn’t have to say this first, before we can discuss our disagreements, but it’s really common that people who simply disagree are being called haters.

But it’s not true. In fact, the opposite is true. If I hated you, I wouldn’t care about you enough to disagree with you.

I really don’t hate you. Please know that when I disagree with you it’s because I think the issue is too important to get wrong, and because I believe the best about you. If a stranger was at risk of walking off a cliff, it wouldn’t hurt me personally, and it technically isn’t my business. But you and I would both try to warn them, try to help them, and even risk hurting their feelings by yelling at them to stop. The facts are more important than our feelings, and it’s our duty of care as good neighbours to speak up when others are about to get hurt.

So please don’t call me a hater. Please don’t call me a bigot. Please don’t label me with some mental illness like a phobia, simply because we disagree. The fact is I love you like a neighbour, even if we’ve never met. I would shout out to you if you were about to get hurt. I hope you don’t hate me if I do, but that’s a risk I have to take because of how much I care about you and all my other neighbours.

I just think if we can discover the Truth together, it doesn’t matter who gets the credit. There is no credit. We just want our nation to win.

Anyway, if you can try to understand where I’m coming from, we can probably have a great dialogue - one we couldn’t possibly begin if it was just assumed I hated you. That’s what I want anyway. I hope you do too.

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