Let's define despise as according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
Despise: Option 1: to look down on with contempt or aversion Option 2: to regard as negligible, worthless, or distasteful
Which living person do you most despise?

Currently I don't have anyone that I despise, there is however someone that I have a love/hate feeling toward. About two years ago I was going around to classrooms presenting on an organization that I am part of to try to entice people into joining and experiencing what I love about the organization. One of the classes I was a part of at the time I openly asked the teacher if she would be okay with me speaking on the organization that I am part of and run on the local and state level, she claimed to be okay with it, I had asked before the class was in session, before anyone besides her and I were in the classroom. As I was trying to explain why people should join she openly laughed and told me that none of them would want to join. I clenched my jaw for a moment before trying once again, only to have her make a joke out of my passion. That shut me down and this was during the first class of the semester which lasts for 16-weeks and meets once a week, also the first time I had her for a teacher. For the rest of the semester I only mentioned the organization when it would affect my attendance within the class and since it was a school-sanctioned event she was unable to take away any in class points that may have happened during that absence.

I didn't inform any other teachers or staff of her behavior or approach her about it as I didn't feel it was worth my time to focus any energy on her. Later that day I had a meeting with two of the other local officers of the organization and forewarned them to not approach her about the club as she had treated it disrespectfully and I knew they wouldn't hold their tongues as well as I had. A year passes and I am approaching instructors once again to see if I can present in their classes for recruitment and when we were meeting with one of the staff at the college one of the two officers I had informed about what happened with the teacher decided to tell the staff member, who was shocked at the teacher's behavior. This was before the semester had officially started and when I went into the offending teacher's classroom to attend one of her classes she decided to keep me after class to offer up her help to the organization in any way that she could. This offered help apparently didn't extend very far as further into the school year she openly tried to make my organization look bad in front of another classroom full of students and another teacher. That helping hand was retracted as soon as she felt it necessary.
This is the type of person that I despise, one that laughs at others passions and disregards those people. Passionate people are the ones that are going to go far in this world.
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Which living person do you most despise?
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