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by anoncoward111 2896 days ago
Technically this isn't a double negative, but you are right that the negative connotation of "hate" is reversed by "don't".

"I don't have nothing" is a double negative. In "proper" English (whatever that means ;p) , the correct phrasing would be "I don't have anything" or "I have nothing".