"Hate" might be a rather strong word to describe this flavor, but I won't deny that I don't like them. And it's not that I can't talk about them, it's just that I don't want to talk about them.

["Can't" implies that he's literally incapable of doing so or even afraid of them, but that would just be ridiculous, he's so not afraid of them...as for that question of what happened to cause this, exactly--] Besides, I believe I already told you that I don't like talking about it the first time you asked me about it, didn't I?