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Every Leftist Cause Begins as Humanitarianism and Ends as Terrorism

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Those who care too much will eventually care enough to kill.

“Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; – the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!”
—A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

Every leftist cause is founded on empathy.

The quintessential leftist, no matter how much blood eventually spatters his hands, starts off by caring a great deal about other people. His heart bleeds for the oppressed, the workers and the peasants, for racial and sexual minorities, and for all the oppressed peoples of the world.

The ideological fashions may change but the story is always told the same way.

Somewhere there is an oppressed group to be liberated. And he, she or they is the one to fight for their liberation. Along the way that exquisite sensitivity which may lead an upper class Ivy Leaguer to learn all about the customs and suffering of black transgender men in Detroit or Hamas terrorists in Gaza congeals into an equal insensitivity for the suffering of his targets.

And then people die. Sometimes it’s those he considers the oppressed or the oppressors. Usually both. The humanitarians become terrorists and their revolutions lead to tyranny.

The opposite of tyranny isn’t revolution just as the opposite of empathy isn’t a lack of caring. They are both circles. Revolutions make tyrannies and empathy leads to cruelty. While there is a small subset of humanity that genuinely lacks empathy, most of the ideological bloodshed of the last century and this one was committed by men and women who cared far too much.

Those who care too much will eventually care enough to kill.

That is the argument that has been made in defense of every murderous leftist cause and is currently being made for Hamas. If you really care about the suffering in Gaza, you too would set yourself on fire or burn Israeli families alive in their homes. If you really care, you won’t care.

Genuine humanitarians can exhaust themselves caring too much. But those are the types of people who stay up nights helping others. Some of this type can be recruited into leftist movements, but the average leftist is a deeply insincere humanitarian who cares about others only as a vehicle for developing an identity and asserting it on a public stage.

Leftists genuinely do care a lot. They care about rising oceans, polar bears, women in hijabs, men in dresses, drug dealers in the ghetto and eco-terrorists in prison, racist highways and dead terrorists, and if you think of something that they don’t care about yet, they will soon.

As long as it fits the larger agenda of asserting their will over society from a moral high ground.

That is why they also don’t care about the horrifying death toll among young black men from crime, how many Muslims are being killed by Muslim governments or the state of the gay rights movement in Marxist dictatorships. If the state of oppression does not conform to the narrative of external social oppression to be overthrown by a liberation movement it is useless to the political movement and to the individual ego of the aspiring freedom fighter.

To a genuine humanitarian, the oppressed are an end, but to a leftist they are a means. A leftist cares a great deal about a coal miner until he votes for Trump or a black man until he runs as a Republican. Or until, even through no fault of his own, like the coal miners and steelworkers for whom leftists once bled, he is replaced by a new pathway to the ultimate revolution.

It is not truly the workers and peasants, the transgenders and the terrorists, whom the leftist cares about. They humanize, articulate and personalize the revolutionary mandate whose purpose is not to save, but to destroy everything about a world that doesn’t care as much.

The more the leftist cares, the worse the atrocities he can justify with his boundless caring.

That the caring rarely leads to anything useful is the entire point. Empathy for the leftist is a narrative point. Really fixing anything robs him of his motivation. That is why the standard leftist position is that black people are as oppressed today as they were under segregation. If they were to admit that black people were equal and free, what would they do with their time?

Successful leftist movements seize power. They fix nothing and repair nothing because caring is a means for the individual ego and the collective one. Every leftist is a heroic freedom fighter who wants to be the king. He pretends he wants to save the world when he’s out to rule it.

Leftist violence is not the outcry of the oppressed, but the mandate of the oppressors.

That is why every leftist cause begins as humanitarianism and ends in terrorism. Humanitarianism and terrorism don’t contradict each other, they complement one another. There could be no terrorism without humanitarianism. Terrorism is not an accidental sidetrack, but the next phase of a three step process that then ends with tyranny or defeat.

When a leftist starts caring about something, it will, given enough time, end in mass murder.

It’s not because he can’t feel your pain, it’s because he’s too busy feeling someone else’s pain so he doesn’t feel yours when he comes after you. Much as the best way to drown out a signal is with noise, the best way to drown out empathy is with lots more empathy.

The leftist cares about so many people and things that he can’t feel anything when it comes to his real targets. Human suffering has become so much noise that he picks and chooses which strands to isolate and listen to based on ideological grounds. Leftist empathy doesn’t sensitize, it desensitizes by design. Given a large enough palette, the leftist can vandalize art, bomb events and assault people because he’s trying to save millions, billions and the entire planet.

But the only one he’s really trying to save is himself from his own boring mediocrity.

The upper class leftist revolutionary, unable to accomplish anything of worth or become anyone of note, sets out to subjugate the world. His empathy for people whom he has never met instantly makes him a wiser and deeper person. And before you know it, he’s cheering Hamas.

And it’s all because he cares so much.

Comments

  1. Very insightful article. The author has a deep insight of how the good end of the spectrum pushed to the extreme, goes all the way to the evil end of the spectrum, for the good of the person in charge of the revolution, and to hell with everybody else. Che Guvera, Fedel Castro, Pot Pol, Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, Margret Sanger, Sartre, Mohammed, to name a few. Even serial killers have a twisted instinct they are killing because it is somehow a good thing for their victims, and he put them out of their misery. I have heard the same thing as this from people who support abortion, the killing of innocent children in the womb. They are saving the world from overpopulation.

    • ALL humans, right, left, center, whatever, FINALLY get tired of other people harming other people & try peaceful means at first but finally, ALL humans have to resort to killing to stop the harming & killing of innocent people.

      It WILL ONLY change when the hearts of humans are changed. BUT, Muslims AND ALL OF ISLAM, call for the killing of ALL Jews & pagans AND enslavement of ALL Christians. It is the Law of their Quran AND their god Allah. The so called “good Muslims” just wait until their are sufficient numbers of them to then commit atrocities like what Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Indonesia…you name the Muslim majority country & you have unprovoked violence against peoples of other religions.

      To inform the ignorant humans is why jihadwatch.org was created. That is why thereligionofpeace website was created

    • I don’t care about good intentions.
      I care about good results.

      Progressives keep telling me that their intentions are really good.
      My usual answer is that I have no doubt that their intentions are good. I’m old enough to recognize the pavement of the road to Hell.

  2. That photo:remind you of anyone?

    the keffiyeh wearing new nazis ..of the Left ,the islamo fascists{the RED-GREEN AXIS},Book of Daniel,Joel ,Ezekiel etc

    If you are a Jew you might read Zechariah 12{v3,v 9}.The God of Israel has a lethal plan …Zechariah 14 v12
    If you are a christian Matthew 24
    If you are a muslim..you could figure it out if you follow allah’s unwitting advice in koran 10:94:check the sources AWAY Ffrom “scholars” of islam:your choice.

    allah of the kaaba is NOT the Biblical God.

  3. Very well expressed. Few “Progressives” seem to have asked themselves the obvious question: “Progressing towards what?”

    You could imagine Daniel Greenfield’s exposition appearing in “Catch-22”:

    “Colonel Metcalfe had five thousand men under his command, and he cared deeply about their suffering. The more they suffered – the more he cared. And the more he cared, the more loudly he declared his commitment to the importance of addressing their suffering.

    “But you’re their Commanding Officer…” suggested the chaplain timidly “Couldn’t you address it?”

    “My job as the men’s Commanding Officer is to care – and to be committed to caring.” declared Colonel Metcalf confidently. “And if they weren’t suffering, then I wouldn’t be able to care about it. And if I didn’t care about it – then I wouldn’t be doing my job. And I’m not about to let a bunch of lousy, no-good enlisted men who deserve all they get – accuse ME of not doing my job!”

  4. Surely you’ve noticed that Woke doesn’t work.

    Of course it doesn’t. It’s not just bad ideas put into operation by bad people and obvious grifters, though, that causes the problem. Woke Marxism isn’t even interested in making things work. In fact, it’s worse than that, even.

    Woke Marxism is, by definition, hostile to making things work. It is, as Herbert Marcuse put it in An Essay on Liberation (https://www.marxists.org/reference/ar…
    ) in 1969, a protest against “the totality of a well-functioning and prosperous society,” even against its very Platonic Form.

    In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay shows you exactly where this mentality was adopted by the radical Left that became the Woke Left to explain why Woke Marxism cannot possibly make anything work. It’s opposed to the very concept! –
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERbMeN0EO-o

  5. They call themselves progressives but can anyone name one thing, one idea, one fleeting thought among them, that could be considered progress?

    Recently I was thinking of re-watching the movie Dr. Strangelove but I decided against it because, why bother, it’s all around me.

  8. Well, Mr. Greenfield, that’s not surprising, because in the end marxism/communism is only based on jealousy, the worst point of departure imaginable.

  12. It is possible to have empathy for other people without going off the deep end and having none for the ones seen as oppressors.

    If one has empathy, and at the same time a realization that they are incapable of making evil people stop their evil actions, their empathy can continue without doing harm.
    If the one with empathy for the suffering of others recognizes his limitations, he won’t take it upon himself to seek vengeance upon those he believes are in the wrong.
    It’s also necessary to analyze one’s own self in order to ensure that he is not in the wrong as to his idea of who is the actual oppressor.

    In the current atmosphere, the ones who began with an empathy for the suffering of others, and now have decided that Israel must cease to exist, have a distorted sense of reality. That doesn’t really seem to be a case of empathy at all.

  13. I’m so glad I was a pacifist in my younger days. It kept me out of so much trouble. It allowed me to be a bleeding heart liberal without becoming a terrorist.

  14. Every Leftist Cause Begins as Humanitarianism and Ends as Terrorism
    ………………………………………….

    Probably not *every* cause–but all too many, and certainly supporting the horrors of Jihad. Important article from Daniel Greenfield.

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