Why does the right hate so much?
For as long as I can remember I’ve suffered an allergic reaction to right-wing people and their ideas.
A few weeks ago I was standing in a school gym in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in the United States, when a big light went on in my head.
You see, for as long as I can remember I’ve suffered an allergic reaction to right-wing people and their ideas.
A genuine stomach-troubling, where’s the nearest sink, gagging recoil.
Listening to Republican Rick Santorum in Kalamazoo, drawing hysterical cheers from his supporters as he lambasted benefit claimants, universal health care, liberals, greens, taxes, gays, immigrants, abortion and sex education, I realised why.
Because their ideology and motivation is based on hate.
More under cut for those what don't like linkage:
It is something that I’ve seen at BNP marches, even Tory party conferences - where a collective loathing for anyone who threatens their wealth, their ideals and their way of life is lingering just below the surface.
Here, the right uses propaganda machines like MigrationWatch and The TaxPayers’ Alliance to highlight statistics which inflame anger towards immigrants and welfare claimants.
Our right-wing tabloids spew hate towards laws that protect human rights and safety for workers, are contemptuous of support for those who are weak and poor and also paint trade unionists as the enemy within.
The right says it wants to give people freedom - but it’s freedom on their terms. There is a glaring contradiction at the heart of their ideology.
They detest state interference in taxation, workers’ rights and the economy, but they believe passionately that it should intervene when it comes to telling people how to live their lives.
They assume a monopoly on personal morality.
They protest loudest against gay marriage, believe global warming is a pinko con and basically loathe any individual who threatens their mythical 1950s view of a country which was white, Christian and where everyone knew their place.
It’s Boris Johnson calling blacks “piccaninnies”, Ann Winterton telling gags about throwing Pakistanis off trains and Tory MP Aidan Burley on a stag do with mates dressed as Nazis and toasting Hitler.
The right possess an instinctive intolerance which is dangerous and disturbing.
Which is why it was no surprise that French police’s initial reaction to the murders in Toulouse (wrongly, as it turned out) was to blame extreme right-wingers.
As we saw in Norway, where neo-Nazi Anders Breivik killed 69 kids at a Labour Party holiday camp, right-wing militancy is on the rise across Europe.
With Santorum winning over swathes of the United States by calling on “right-minded people” to take a stand against all who think differently, it’s on the rise there, too.
And it raises that age-old question we need to ask each time politicians beg for our vote: Why does the right hate so much?
Source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/the-ranting-right-is-on-the-rampage-768350
OP: Opinion piece by Brian Reade. Its something I have always wondered too. Its like most people on the right class themselves as Christians but their opinions and ideology are often anything but Christian in the conventional sense.
A few weeks ago I was standing in a school gym in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in the United States, when a big light went on in my head.
You see, for as long as I can remember I’ve suffered an allergic reaction to right-wing people and their ideas.
A genuine stomach-troubling, where’s the nearest sink, gagging recoil.
Listening to Republican Rick Santorum in Kalamazoo, drawing hysterical cheers from his supporters as he lambasted benefit claimants, universal health care, liberals, greens, taxes, gays, immigrants, abortion and sex education, I realised why.
Because their ideology and motivation is based on hate.
More under cut for those what don't like linkage:
It is something that I’ve seen at BNP marches, even Tory party conferences - where a collective loathing for anyone who threatens their wealth, their ideals and their way of life is lingering just below the surface.
Here, the right uses propaganda machines like MigrationWatch and The TaxPayers’ Alliance to highlight statistics which inflame anger towards immigrants and welfare claimants.
Our right-wing tabloids spew hate towards laws that protect human rights and safety for workers, are contemptuous of support for those who are weak and poor and also paint trade unionists as the enemy within.
The right says it wants to give people freedom - but it’s freedom on their terms. There is a glaring contradiction at the heart of their ideology.
They detest state interference in taxation, workers’ rights and the economy, but they believe passionately that it should intervene when it comes to telling people how to live their lives.
They assume a monopoly on personal morality.
They protest loudest against gay marriage, believe global warming is a pinko con and basically loathe any individual who threatens their mythical 1950s view of a country which was white, Christian and where everyone knew their place.
It’s Boris Johnson calling blacks “piccaninnies”, Ann Winterton telling gags about throwing Pakistanis off trains and Tory MP Aidan Burley on a stag do with mates dressed as Nazis and toasting Hitler.
The right possess an instinctive intolerance which is dangerous and disturbing.
Which is why it was no surprise that French police’s initial reaction to the murders in Toulouse (wrongly, as it turned out) was to blame extreme right-wingers.
As we saw in Norway, where neo-Nazi Anders Breivik killed 69 kids at a Labour Party holiday camp, right-wing militancy is on the rise across Europe.
With Santorum winning over swathes of the United States by calling on “right-minded people” to take a stand against all who think differently, it’s on the rise there, too.
And it raises that age-old question we need to ask each time politicians beg for our vote: Why does the right hate so much?
Source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/the-ranting-right-is-on-the-rampage-768350
OP: Opinion piece by Brian Reade. Its something I have always wondered too. Its like most people on the right class themselves as Christians but their opinions and ideology are often anything but Christian in the conventional sense.