How "They Like You" becomes "Hate Speech"

"You don't matter. Your voice doesn't matter. You are perceiving things all wrong"

That's what I was told time and time again in junior high and the year I went to public high school. Not in those words, but I heard the message LOUD and CLEAR.

Yesterday, someone come on to my Facebook page, find a post I had open to the public, and said things about my weight, how much my ***** stinks, etc. Some of it was not as bad as when I was in high school and the things that would be said to me in high school was much worse.

A friend reported it to Facebook. It was removed for hate speech.

In 2018 it's considered 'hate speech'. In 1988 it was "They only say those things because they like you.