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

On Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:19:37 -0700, Dude <[email protected]> wrote:

>On 8/19/2026 8:12 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>Don't you just hate that!
> >
>
>>>>
>>>> Patrick West
>>>
>>> Moral mandate - be kind or we'll make ya be
>> 
>> Or
>> 
>> Be unkind or we'll make ya be
>>
>Another wiseguy - that makes absolutely no sense. Are you smarter than a 
>5th grader?
> >
>
>> 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."
>>
>You must be getting senile - it was the Students For A Democratic 
>Society (SDS) that caused the riots in Chicago.

You missed a lot if that is all you noticed.

>Not the hippies you idiot!
> > > 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.
> >
>You're just making up shit now. Everyone knows the hippies were for Free 
>Love. You are such a nut sometimes, Noah!

Oh, they had far more interestss than that.  I was there.
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