In response to my last blog, which suggested that the Left is largely responsible for the hatred/violence presently plaguing us here in the “progressive” West, one of that affiliation might mockingly point out the many ignorant racists, homophobes, misogynists, etc. whose dementia is fed by “right-wing” politics. But there is a radical difference in the relationship between mainstream Conservatism and its adherents, and the mainstream Left and those willing to kill on its behalf.
Not one of the many conservative commentators and politicians whom I admire would ever dream of closing their eyes to criminal acts of violence committed on behalf of their agenda. The need for Law and Order is an essential focus of Conservatism. Yet how muted was the reaction of the Left-leaning media to the multiple deaths and over 2 billion dollars in damages perpetrated by the BLM. riots of 2020-21? If the Truth imperils their celebration of Inclusiveness, “progressives” tend to simply ignore the Truth! How reluctant are they, for example, to vilify the barbaric beliefs of traditional Islam which continue to infect millions across the face of the planet? That Women and Gays in various nations are being incarcerated if not executed for no reason whatsoever, has not significantly affected the Left’s naive belief that we are all the same, all equally worthy of respect. To criticize Islam here in the West entails criticizing the Other, and the Other, whatever its moral/intellectual status, is always treated with empathy by those addicted to the idiotic neo-Marxist Principle that Life is not about intelligence, integrity and achievement, but simply about Oppressors and their innocent Victims.
The primary Villains in today’s dominant Western World-View are, ironically, White, Western Males. Thus while the criminal acts of B.L.M. in 2020-21 were spared any significant amount of media vilification, Canada’s trucker convoy in 2022 was virally denounced as an expression of White, Fascist, Capitalist arrogance. It is a narrative born of an absurd ideological bias. The trucker invasion of Ottawa entailed the feeding of the poor, children playing in the street, and relatively little violence whatsoever! But those truckers, apparently, were monsters when compared to those pillaging the streets of America on behalf of Black career criminal George Floyd, those who were Social Justice Warriors in no way incited by Hatred or Racism of any sort!
My point is that the Left consistently fails to indict violence when it seems to advance its agenda, while Conservatives generally refuse to tolerate criminality of any kind. While Joe Biden was clearly one of the worst presidents in U.S. history, no conservative that I know of ever suggested that he ought to be assassinated. And yet there was Jimmy Kimmel a few weeks ago, on a major U.S. television network, deriving humor from the likelihood that Donald Trump might at some point be murdered!