Re: Why the ‘Be Kind’ brigade are so ho rrible

On 8/19/2026 6:44 PM, dart200 wrote:
> On 8/19/26 2:32 AM, Julian 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 
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> so one of my therapists (who also lives here in the bay) is a catholic 
> woman from syria. yes catholic, not muzzie.
> 
> during the "arab spring" in 2011, the joos took this an opportunity to 
> bomb a bunch of infrastructure. it's never been the same since, her 
> parents still don't get reliable electricity from the utilities.
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This might be a good time to discuss the results of the Arab Spring.

How did Israel manage to emerge from a complex, fast-moving, and 
dangerous upheaval as a “winner”?

The Times of Israel:

https://tinyurl.com/4yc7xnh6
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> yet this entire article mentions nothing of the actual war crimes 
> constantly being committing in that section of the planet. i have no 
> idea who this is written for, but clearly someone who wants to stick 
> their head up their asshole and keep acting like everything is cool when 
> it isn't actually, because they aren't the ones directly affects by it
> 
>   > good thing ur a mortal joolian
>   >
>   > #god
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We look forward to your analysis of the Arab Spring. Thanks.

"In the aftermath of the Arab Spring in various countries, there was a 
wave of violence and instability commonly known as the Arab Winter[336] 
or Islamist Winter.[337] The Arab Winter was characterized by extensive 
civil wars, general regional instability, economic and demographic 
decline of the Arab League and overall religious wars between Sunni and 
Shia Muslims."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring

>> 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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