Loose Ends

So communist activist group hope not hate have released their "state of hate" for 2023. Regular readers of the far left groups reports will once again note a distinct bias, and when I say distinct bias, I mean anything that isn't communism is branded as hate. No mention of Antifa (an organisation that had a good year intimidating women and generally breaking the law everywhere they pitch up) And of course no mention of the continuing rise of extremely aggressive trans rights activism which is strewn all over social media almost on a daily basis. But nooooo lets not talk about that, the only real hate comes in the form of the tried and trusted hope not hate mantra of "anything to the right of communism is hate" Don't worry about the millions upon millions of people who have been murdered in the pursuit of the communist utopia, they were just doing it wrong. So onto the hate (anything not communist) Main title is "rhetoric, racism and resentment" and...

De-humanisation. I'm sure most people are aware of dehumanisation, the idea that a group of people be it race, colour or even social status is somehow less worthy of equal status as a human being. It could be something small like an employer who treats his workforce as nothing more than automatons, but you could extrapolate that to a much grander scale like, for instance, the Nazi's dehumanisation of the Jews, its an evil, brutal concept. But it can be misplaced, particularly for political reasons. Take the recent demonstration In Knowsley. This was a perfectly legal demonstration against the housing of migrants in hotels in the middle of communities that are completely alien to them. They don't know the make-up of the neighbourhood, they have no idea of acceptable behaviour particularly toward women and girls and they are, of course, mostly single men. So is it wrong to protest housing migrants in communities that are already struggling with poverty and a whole host of oth...