Does it ever bother you when someone says they 'hate' someone they don't know?

Yes, i do feel that way too.
Not specifically for Bieber and the likes, but in general.
I decided some years ago to not even speak the word any more.
Actually i do sometimes say: “Sheez, how i hate people who put their towels on the sunbed early in the morning and then return to their room, just so they have that bed occupied for the rest of the day.”
But then i take the hate back, and replace it with do not like.

I don’t throw that word around casually, but I understand why people do it. The definitions for “love” and “hate” have been completely commercialized and lost almost all real value they once had. I casually tell people I love them but it’s because I have real affection towards them. I definitely wouldn’t throw around the word “hate” about someone I don’t know though I am sure I am guilty of doing it at times.

No. I don’t need to know Ahmadinejad on a personal level to know that I hate him. Besides, I think everyone should have their own criteria for who and why and how often they hate someone. Saying universally that we should restrict who we hate is just the other side of the same coin as the idea that we should hate as freely as possible.

Besides, in an age when celebrities are on facebook and twitter, it’s often possible to know them on a “personal” level just as well as your online friends that you’ve never met in person – so unless you think I should also scale back on how much I love, don’t be so quick to think that there’s no possible way I could know what Miley Cyrus and Justine Beiber are like.

I don’t know anybody like that but I hate them all.

No; I don’t care who they say they hate when they don’t even hate them. They’re just nervous.

Yeah, I’m not that way either. I don’t tend to throw around the word “hate” loosely about people. I know it’s completely inconsistent and silly, but I can say “I hate mushrooms”, but if I say I hate a person, I truly hate them. It’s not a casual dislike or annoyance, it’s a real hate. And that really doesn’t happen often at all.

Especially about music—most of that is just buzz and hype and going along with the crowd. You hate what everyone else hates.

I hate them all. j/k

It only bugs me if it’s a racial issue. Otherwise it doesn’t. Everyone has their opinions.

oddly enough, my mom always used to tell me when I was a kid, that hate is a strong word-
and it stuck. When I use the word I mean it. I prefer other people say what they mean instead of using the word hate to fill the blank, however I don’t get extremly upset over it- Usually I’ll ask if that’s what they meant though. “Really? you hate so and so?”

I abhor ignorance and stupidity. Overuse of extreme statements of attitude or belief usually meet those criteria.

I am, however, rarely surprised to observe such behaviour. It is far too common!