Can it help to have people hate you, as far as being known? Everything that makes it with the impressionable of my generation (being a hippy, the celebrities they know, the causes they feel strongly for, etc.) have a equal number of people that hate it, so other people hear about it, and spread it. Regardless of what they think about it, I've hated lots of things that I'm glad at least I heard about now.
If so "encourage" it: everyone comes when they smell blood. If you defend yourself fervently against their attacks and make a message to say "they are wrong" which they certainly are, what's heard is "nothing here". Makes the lips move on a kangaroo him while he and a courtroom full of his alerter personalities in chairs make odd movements and play recordings of retarded lines he's said, for example, he would hate you more, and try to fight harder.
Nobody wants someone to hate you as you try to deliver a message to help good people, but if others hear about it and fight it without looking at it, they didn't care about the topic in the first place, and if they choose to hate it and they know what it is, or they believe it, at least they had a choice.
Not only is the best defense a good offense, it's also the best way to grow.