”Anger is a passion which delights in itself and fawns on itself.” Anger comes in degrees. There is simple annoyance, a disturbance that things are not turning out as expected, without any particular blame applied. Then there is anger, an emotion pointing at injustice, a signal that someone or something has acted in an intentionally harmful manner.
This brings me to rage, when anger is out of control and anyone in proximity is prone to feel lashed about. Those who rage have no idea how to use anger constructively, they feel entitled to spew it wildly like a toddler. It is right to have disrespect for adults who behave that way.
Anger, however, is something we all feel and experience and we need to learn how to channel it productively, using it as a signal that something is amiss and needs to be explored and, in the best case, repaired. The stoics are wrong to ask it be removed from us completely. Anger turned inward is as destructive to the denier as rage can be to the unwitting target.