> But my fear is that they really do, although I can't figure out why.
Did the proles of 1984 REALLY hate the subjects of the Two Minutes Hate?
Of course they did. That was the point. If they were to find and out any one of those un-persons, they would lynch them. That is how humans behave in a witch-hunt scenario. The same goes for apes, dogs, etc.
When uneducated, ignorant, or brainwashed, we are nothing more than animals.