Re: Why the ‘Be Kind’ b rigade are so horri ble (was: Why the ⠀˜Be Kind’ brigad e are so horrible)

On Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:39:24 -0000 (UTC), Tara <[email protected]>
wrote:

>On Aug 19, 2026 at 5:32:12?AM EDT, "Julian" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 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.

And this too is hate.

>> 
>> Patrick West
>
>Moral mandate - be kind or we'll make ya be

Or

Be unkind or we'll make ya be

Remembering in the days of hippies.  A person might laughably say, "I
want peace so bad, I am going to riot and break windows, and beat you
up if you don't give it to me."

Let us not allow such attitudes blind us to the truth that war is a
bad deal for everybody.  We really should try to avoid it.  Among all
the other bad deals.
-- 
Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain
Don't get political with me young man
or I'll tie you to a railroad track and
<<<talk>>> to <<<YOOooooo>>>
Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?
dares: Ned
does not dare: Julian  shrinks in horror and warns others away