I, too, make liberal use of the "function that shall not be named." I occasionally make the mistake of responding - usually when I am quoted - but, invariably, that is a mistake, acknowledging their existence.
I once had an argument with my sister: We were leaving a performance in Forest Park, in St. Louis, when several people cut through the line of cars leaving the park, although most people were just alternating, politely, allowing cars in one at a time. I said, "I hate people that do that!" My sister, being more polite and an English major, said, "what you mean is, 'you hate when people do that'." I thought about that, then I responded: "No, actually, I do dislike people who do that, because they are, by nature, impolite and inconsiderate, traits that I find repulsive."
In the same way, people that are
willing to post some of the garbage that they do here undoubtedly harbor the very traits that they espouse here - racism, misogyny, xenophobia, etc. - and those traits are repulsive to me. Although "hate" may be, as my sister pointed out, too strong a word, I have never been sanguine enough to believe in the hypocritical aphorism, "Hate the sin, not the sinner."
No, someone who
says,
believes, and
does such things is reprehensible. I reprehend them.
Be well, and stay safe.