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It's a headline here and a story there...
But I keep encountering a theme of self hate among the people on the left.
Not sure if it's a widely held idea, but if you hate yourself, you're very unlikely to have any capacity to love anyone.
This means that hate is their only motivation, regardless of the bunting they hang on their stated reasons.
You can see it clearly when all talk of equality is really just giving unfair advantage to a group they perceive as being disadvantaged.
You cannot fairly arrive at equality of outcome.
Life is unfair.
Equality of opportunity is as fair as you can make it.
You cannot force someone to take the opportunity.
But we should stop letting people blame others for their own failings.
I know from personal experience that this is a very difficult thing to learn.
It's true. People that hate themselves have a hard time loving things. And it starts a cycle where the hater hates others for not self-hating.
ReplyDeleteIt's why therapy is such a big thing amongst the left.
Donna Barr (of Desert Peach and Stinz fame), a cartoonist whom I used to love to interact with (she was one of my go-to people about German culture, since she's very knowledgeable) went all but completely offline for a couple of years...and when she came back, she was almost like a right-wing caricature of the shrillest liberal imaginable. She rants against "wypipo" constantly, despite being as white as we are, and calls everybody to the right of Norman Thomas "Nazis." And she's not the only one. TDS and BDS live on, and their sufferers rage against anything they perceive as "white."
ReplyDeleteThis kind of self-hatred is not healthy. I'd say that a Klansman or neo-Nazi is emotionally healthier---they at least love their own people, however badly they may express it.
I saw that with a lot of webcomics. The comic would be funny, or scary, or just wicked and then the artist would become famous and suddenly a severe pivot into Leftardia and I'd pull the eject lever.
DeleteLike a somewhat math/science line drawing cartoon. Kind of funny, pretty okay, went full Hillary in 2016 aaaannddd, yeah, screw you I don't need to support my enemy.
Another moved to Canada for sex-reassignment/mental health/reasons and then started taking not-so subtle whiny potshots at the US. Buh-bye.
And another, who actually had gay and lesbians in the cartoon and it was still all fine and good and then stepped off the deep end and went full-leftard and full Covidiocracy and, again, not fun, not entertaining, sayonara.
And the long running space opera comedy where the author decided that he needed to virtue signal about the Hugo awards when the Sad and Rabid Puppy slates were in play.
DeleteThe shrill ultra-liberals are usually about the most hateful and un-accepting of diversity of thought of anyone out there. They're usually so aggrieved about just about everything that they are in a perpetual state of mad. And even people who are mostly on their side often get targeted for not being pure enough in their ideals. Even though people on the right are often accused of being closed minded, I've run into a lot more who are willing to agree to disagree politely.
ReplyDeletethey hate themselves so much, for whatever reason, they have to turn it outwards and we get the blunt of it...they wake up pissed at the world...hate will keep you warm at night but it has to be the right kind of hate...panzer guy...
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