Re: Why the ‘Be Kind’ b rigade are so horri ble

On Wed, 19 Aug 2026 10:32:12 +0100, Julian <[email protected]>
wrote:

Why the "be an asshole" is brigade so horrible

>The Green Party came to prominence earlier this year by forever 
>promising ‘hope not hate’. Indeed, that dreamy yearning played a key 
>part in securing an unprecedented mandate in the May local elections, 
>when a callow cohort of progressive twenty-somethings, wooed by these 
>nice-sounding words, helped to put the Greens into power in many 
>inner-city councils. This is the same demographic who are also receptive 
>to similar utopian platitudes about abolishing borders, housing 
>immigrants, and free bus travel, free university education and free 
>childcare. Free everything, if possible, courtesy of ‘the billionaires’, 
>who in the Green Party’s ethereal vision will obligingly pay for it all.
>
>Yet such charmingly naïve sentiments seems to jar with Green Party 
>rhetoric in regard to Israel and the Jews. When it comes to this matter, 
>their members are rather lacking in compassion, somewhat short on soppy 
>inanities. On this subject, they are hate-mongers of the first order.
>
>Some Green Party activists now speak of British Jews being a ‘weapon’ of 
>Israel, describe hostility towards Jews as ‘understandable’, and talk of 
>‘violent resistance’ and ‘armed struggle’ by Palestinians. Messages in a 
>private WhatsApp group used by Green members also referred to ‘killing 
>Zionists’. One participant in the group chat described the majority of 
>Israeli Jews as ‘genociders’, another referred to Iran’s Islamic 
>Revolutionary Guard Corps as ‘part of a national liberation movement’, 
>while one Green Party parish councillor on the Isle of Wight, asked if 
>their comment ‘Zionism has to go’ meant that they would like Israel 
>‘wiped off the map, in essence?,’ replied: ‘Yes, I would like that.’
>
>For a party that likes to preach pacifism, this is fighting talk indeed. 
>Yet far from representing a contradiction or an aberration, such 
>bellicose sentiment is wholly consistent with the worldview of the 
>idealistic, progressive left.
>
> From the Jacobins to the Bolsheviks to the Khmer Rouge, those who have 
>combined idealistic utopianism, unassailable righteousness, the pursuit 
>of absolute egalitarianism, and a quasi-religious sense of mission have 
>always spoken with belligerence – and usually acted upon it. The 
>inevitable catastrophic and bloody fate of utopian movements partly 
>stems from the necessary payoff between liberty and equality – you can 
>have more of one only at the expense of having less of the other, so the 
>pursuit of complete equality must entail the complete elimination of 
>liberty – but it’s also the consequence of people being beholden to 
>unshakeable convictions.
>
>To paraphrase Yeats, those possessed with convictions and passionate 
>intensity are the worst types. Those who present themselves as 
>unquestionably caring and good and on the ‘right side of history’ always 
>feel at licence to behave as they please, because they see their 
>opponents as being on the side of evil.
>
>This is why many will also recognise another related, longer-standing 
>and similarly ostensible contradiction in politics: the propensity of 
>those who profess to ‘Be Kind’ to act abhorrently online. They feel at 
>liberty to be as vile and personal in their insults because all is 
>forgiven if you have right on your side. In the minds of the elect, 
>those who hold opposite opinions are already dehumanised.
>
>What makes the self-righteous fury of the hard-left today all the more 
>toxic is that it has been enabled by a culture that valorises victimhood 
>and equates it with moral superiority. Those who present themselves as 
>victims of political oppression, or ally themselves to others in that 
>position (in this case, the Palestinians) are even more likely to have 
>recourse to bellicose language. The wrath of ideologues with good on 
>their side is even harder to gainsay when they add to their argument 
>that they are victims, and that the pain they feel is your fault – as a 
>straight white man, or as someone who is ‘right wing’, or as a Jew.
>
>This noxious admixture of ideological certitude, victimhood and 
>infantile sentimentality helps to explain the recent rise of ultra-left 
>violence. The return to the headlines last week of Luigi Mangione is a 
>reminder of how this combination works. It was not merely Mangione’s 
>actions that are telling – he shot and killed the CEO of a private 
>healthcare provider in December 2024 – but the manner in which he was 
>subsequently feted by those who think some people deserve to die for 
>being capitalists, for not being caring.
>
>Mangione’s actions can be seen in context with the murder of Charlie 
>Kirk, or in this country, the emergence of the militant transgender 
>rights group Bash Back, and indeed Palestine Action, an outfit which 
>also has no qualms about using violence if it’s for a ‘good cause’.
>
>One can therefore be shocked, but not confused, at what we are hearing 
>today from the mouths of some Greens. The boastfully compassionate, 
>those brimming with convictions, are often those who are also full of hate.
>
>
>Patrick West
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