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Western Leftists Have Lost the Plot
The reason the ultra-left run into so many ideological inconsistencies is because they are underdogphiles. They see the underdog through a highly fetishized and sympathetic lens.
Support for the underdog isn’t a bad thing—and in fact, it’s actually highly necessary in many cases—but their fetishization amounts to blanket support, meaning there is no... See more
Support for the underdog isn’t a bad thing—and in fact, it’s actually highly necessary in many cases—but their fetishization amounts to blanket support, meaning there is no... See more
Elica Le Bon الیکا ل بن • Tweet
This explains the modern rise of evil chic and the pattern among woke leftists of cheering on the likes of Hamas, Hezbollah, the psychopathic dictator Vladimir Lenin, or the murderer Luigi Mangione.
Book Review: Political Ponerology
Many people woke up on October 7 sympathetic to parts of woke ideology and went to bed that evening questioning how they had signed on to a worldview that had nothing to say about the mass rape and murder of innocent people by terrorists.
Why then are decent people today afraid to call evil by its name? Why do so many insist on finding moral equivalence? And why do so many people describe the worst of evils—the deliberate targeting of children—with positive-sounding terms like “freedom fighting,” while describing reasonable efforts to prevent these Nazi-like evils as Nazism itself?
Alan Dershowitz • The Case for Israel
A similar homology applies to the term “terrorism.” During the period of Jewish struggle against the British military in Palestine, “terrorist” had a positive connotation. In the late 1940s, American newspapers ran an advertisement with the headline, “Letter to the Terrorists of Palestine,” wherein the Hollywood screenwriter Ben Hecht wrote, “My Brave Friends. You may not believe what I write you, for there is a lot of fertilizer in the air at the moment. The Jews of America are for you.” #israel #palestine #hamás
instagram.com"Palestinians are often pinioned between two opposing but equally harmful tendencies: to turn them into abstractions on a political stage, or to turn away from them because what they’re enduring is too horrendous to truly grapple with