re: #20 Locker

Hate is something that is to be avoided on the left. It happens but it’s not glorified, it’s not rewarded and it’s not encouraged as a quality to be admired.

This makes the iconography of Che Guevara, iner alia, puzzling, as it is decidedly a phenomenon of the cultural and political left. I note, similarly, that whereas folk such as, say, Robert DePugh, founder of the rightist criminal enterprise known as the Minutemen, ended his revolutionary career in prison, before moving solidly to the anti-semitic fringes of the Liberty Lobby, someone such as, say William Ayers or his lovely wife, Bernadine Dohrn, are, far from suffering the consequences of their leftist terrorism, actually basing the sum total of their entire “academic” careers on it. And there are, of course, many, many other examples of outright leftist terrorists lionized to this day among the political left in the united states. Trust me, homicidal rage in the cause of politics is not confined to any one end of the spectrum. Why do you see more of it now on the right than on the left? The Left is in power, and certain of their radicals need no longer plant dynamite bombs in police stations to “bring it all down”. They completed their march through the institutions, and so are now the caretakers and controllers of the very structures they sought to destroy. It’s a cycle.

I’d note, too, that the single largest concentration of support for an openly-planned genocide (the destruction of the state of Israel and her people) is to be found in the contemporary “anti-war” left. Passive-aggressive, we call that. And so, if, which the Lord forbid, Iran et al do incinerate an Israeli city, and Israel launches a counter-attack, I imagine the leftists holding candlelight vigils and other such displays will do so for the poor innocent Iranians.