Spectacles and Symbols
By: James Lomax
Tags: Left, Labour, Terrorism, Black Lives Matter

“Il faut cultiver notre jardin” — Candide, by Voltaire

“A great lather of not especially persuasive offence” — Douglas Murray

I find Murray’s remark amusing, doubly so when I know how lefties react (it’s not a pretty sight) at the mention of him. It summarises much of what I say here. An inability to think, a disposition for posturing, and emotion based nonsense. Which is imposed, when it’s not inherent. Assumed, like a religious story. The effect is one of gaslighting. In a video below we see the background context of Black Lives Matters. It’s the first time I’ve seen it evidentially, although many people have said they are anarchists, Marxists, trouble makers with their own form of supremacism. I’m not a fan of “politics” and this is yet one more reason why. Carole “Cat Lady” Cadwalladr is in the process of being sued for public domain lies. She’s already admitted what she said was not true. Her point about political influencing (Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, Russia) ironically applies to her. She didn’t want Brexit, which is one thing, and started talking nonsense which is something else. Lefties spread poison and lies across the internet because they know it has an effect. You see it in the reactions, hysteria, outrage. It’s part of their campaigning. Cadwalladr didn’t want Brexit (nor did I as it happens) and developed a mythology around it with Aaron Banks as the arch demon. The term “black lives matter” is propagandist and spread on the internet. Of course the lives of black people matter. But if you say that, interrupt the hysteria impact of the statement with reason, you immediately get into a fight. Much as you do with trolling.

The movement is deconstructed quite nicely in the video itself (note the eliciting, as opposed to challenge) but I’ll say a few things about context, the left, and myself. Because I’ve realised by far the greatest politics exposure I’ve ever had has been with lefties on the internet. I don’t support any politicians, any party, endorse any ideology but lefties are unpleasantly aggressive on the internet. It’s not only this for me, because I’ve seen much the same in trade union people I’ve known and with certain organisations. But you see it on the internet in a manageable form which can be cited, organised, and critiqued. Not just the people, but what they write and publish.

I remember a fellow student saying to me once that with socialism, people matter more than money. Which obviously makes sense, she said. I rather agreed but the idea neither excited nor interested me. I would now say the dichotomy is ludicrously simplified although the sentiment is clear. Her enthusiasm at the time was EM Forster. Mine, in my degree, was Shakespeare, Greek tragedy, and psychology. The problem is leftie behaviour and in particular their name calling abuse: racist! fascist! phobe! kill the Tories! far right! There is no evidence lefties ideas could ever work. The facts are the contrary whenever lefties take full control of a country. Marxism, socialism, Stalinism, Maoism. It’s a dream: state control and heavenly equality with angels singing, Jesus smiling (although they hate Christianity) and oh Jeremy Corbyn playing a harp. On earth, not in heaven.

The internet has and still does facilitate, expose, and amplify behaviors which are otherwise offline and lesser. Some of it is criminal and unpleasant, with Islamic terrorism in particular. Which subject has been and still is one of the moral failures of the left. More than a failure, the left are complicit. Finally, heinously overdue, a leading politician has taken a stand against the violent hatred which is a huge problem within worldwide and UK Islam. After Samuel Paty was killed for showing and discussing Mohammed cartoons to students, Macron took action. Not just talk words, and they are good words, but closing for example 76 problematic mosques from a total (as I recall) of 2600. Note the numbers. Not a small problem. Less small when, always the case with this kind of thing, there will be far more. Some at the same appalling level, others on a lesser but unacceptable spectrum. Just as (the last I looked) there are about 3000 UK Muslims actively monitored by MI5 and the police, and about 23,000 on a danger list. Do lefties ever condemn this? Of course not. What they do is talk loudly and crazily (oh Je-rem-ee Cooo-oorbyn!) if we learn about any genuine far right nutters also being monitored. I think I remember reading it’s a few hundred of them. It’s a tiny problem, used politically, like we must have a diversity of evil. Which if you think about it morally is vile: concerned not with life, security, and threat. But an imaginary threat, because it’s grossly exaggerated, because it serves the interests of lefties.

In France they have the term Islamo-gauche which does two things. It identifies that alongside baguettes, croissants and wine, they recognise this pattern and refer to it with panache, because it wouldn’t work so well in Britain. Douglas Murray wrote that mosques which are teaching hatred should be shut down. What is the problem with saying that, you might think. If you’re a leftie, he’s the enemy, so Islamophobe! racist! — and so on. Exactly, depressingly, and never endingly what happens. This is one of the core problems with the left. They take sides with Muslims and Islam and hate Jewish people and Israel: the latter proven, judged, and denounced by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission. The good guys. The same people who ordered against the British National Party for a racist membership policy.

We have a country where the EHRC can, and do, intervene with the power of the law against political parties and potential governments where they contravene not only their policies, but the common sentiment of the vast majority of people. In the last few weeks in Britain alone three more Muslim terrorists have been found guilty and will be sent to prison. No idea — but how many is it now in the last 5, 10, 15 years? Another man of said persuasion stabbed two people in a shop with “Allahu Akbar” reports while his shout was barely referred to. And an Islamic charity with terrorism (Muslim Brotherhood) connections had one of its board post anti semitic abuse which included reference to animals, just as you find in the Islamic reading list. I’ve seen that happen multiple times too. There was another charity a few years ago (I forget the name of it) which was sending money to Hamas. Oh Jer-em-eee Coo-ooorbyn…

There are huge problems with Black Lives Matter which fit a related analysis. Black people are part of the leftie tribal game just as Muslims are. Strategically, it means votes. Ideologically, it means victim. Morally, it means corrupt. When you interrogate leftie behaviors what you find is a set of organised symbols used as power generators for the whole system. Equality. Diversity. Black Lives Matter. Justice. Yay! These are symbols not rationales. Positing nice and in one case an obvious idea, as if everyone else is an enemy opposed to the righteous tribe: so join the righteous tribe.

Here’s the video. There are several parts of it where this deranged stuff is exposed. At no point does he question that racism is a problem. He introduces the video by acknowledging it. He does deconstruct the subject, as rationale not symbol, which is an intellectual capacity you begin to learn in early teenage years. What unfolds is:

The police should be defunded Never mind the rampant gang killings in London much of which concerns young people and background sociology Dangerous people impeded by the police are in the right because of tribal grievance affiliation We want a “higher democracy” Allow drug sellers to become legal and capitalist purveyors of drugdom Everyone else are fascists, hate the Tories, we’re wholly peaceful, and so on

The fourth point is possibly the most disturbing in terms of political analysis, if you think it’s worth your time. We don’t want your democracy, we want ours. Where is the parallel do you think at the opposite end of politics? What were Stalin’s ideas about “higher democracy”?

This is not only deranged, as if “defund the police” is a good, normal, or sensible idea. It also reveals how lefties structure their thinking performatively, resentfully, symbolically, and theatrically. Black Lives Matter — innit — so all else follows which includes Keir Starmer not only ‘taking the knee’ but being photographed, doing so, as part of his leftie campaign.

Now take a look at this. Not the story lefties like but for normal people this is interesting, likeable, sensible, down to earth, and balanced. He says not once but twice: don’t listen to politicians. The implication for which, on this particular subject, means the leftie variety.