Love Quote by Margaret Cho

Cho’s line is a dare disguised as advice: don’t just tolerate your enemies, try loving them - and notice what that demand does to your ego. Coming from a comedian who built a career on weaponizing discomfort, it’s less kumbaya than psychological jiu-jitsu. “Someone who you want to hate” isn’t an abstract villain; it’s the person who’s already under your skin. Cho recognizes that hate is rarely principled. It’s often intimate, reactive, and suspiciously familiar.

The pivot is the needle: “because they are just like you.” That “because” doesn’t excuse harm; it indicts the hater’s need for distance. Cho’s subtext is that disgust is frequently a projection machine. We condemn in others what we’re afraid to recognize in ourselves - weakness, neediness, hunger for control, the messy contradictions we prefer to outsource. The phrase “somewhere inside” keeps it from becoming a cheap sameness sermon; it suggests buried motives and unflattering kinships rather than shared hobbies.

Her repetition of “in a way” mimics the mind circling a thought it resists. It’s the rhythm of reluctant empathy: you don’t arrive at it cleanly. The kicker - “resounds so deeply... you cannot believe it” - frames connection as shock, not sentimentality. In Cho’s cultural context (Asian American identity, queer politics, public shaming, family trauma, the comedy stage as confession booth), the quote reads like survival strategy: empathy not as softness, but as a tool to interrupt the addictive simplicity of hatred.