[joveian]

While I wouldn't pick the exact word "loathe", the thing that really did it for me when I was reading SSC a while back was finding that one of the regular commenters who Scott engaged with positively had written a book that talked about how Obama should have stuck to jobs that were more "genetically suitable" for him. There were plenty of comments about this person being "controversial" on the blog so it isn't likely that Scott just didn't know.