Hate isnt a strong word

Something that bugged me last Friday in one of my foriegn language classes. A classmate said something along the lines of "I hate this class, its a waste of my time." , to which our teacher responded that "Hate is a strong word, you dislike this class.
No, I'm pretty sure he said he hated it. This world has become so PC (politically correct) that we can't even use some of our own words anymore. Hate and its synonymes now have a hierarchy, placed in different levels of 'intensity' on a pyrimad.
Hate is not a strong word. Its written on paper with pen and ink just like any other word. It does not jump out of the page and slap you across the face, or insult the stereotypical blonde cheerleader sitting across from you. No, hate is not a strong word; the action that stems from hating does.
Hate did not boycott gay marriage and segregation, hate did not burn 6 million Jews in concentration camps, hate did not start a war. PEOPLE started war, people fight with one another, and people hurt people. Hate has become the prime scapegoat of the times, replacing human fault and error with a biological problem stemming from 'hatred' and 'prejudice'.
And here's the bigger picture that I took away: we simply can't handle reality anymore. People don't die, no, they 'fail to thrive'. People don't die, bombs explode in a plaza and gunfire is sounded; human beings become a number on a statistic "death toll". Governments aren't bankrupt, they're simply 'having to pull out the reserves'. Dead is dead, and the screaming from bullets and bombs sound the same in every language. Hate is not a powerful word, because it is not capable of holding a bomb or a sign wanting to ban gay marriage. The scary part? The person harboring that anger has hands, and is only a google away from making his or her own homemade bomb.
Moral of the story? Hate just sucks and human beings are one messed up creation. That's the high school way of saying it, anyway.