If you want to find what the left are guilty of, just look to what they’re accusing you of. The left are projectionists extraordinaire. Racism? Their ruling ideology, Critical Race Theory, literally inverts Dr Martin Luther King’s exhortation not to judge people by the colour of their skin. Misogyny? They’ve demolished women’s rights in favour of men playing dress-ups.
Bigotry? By the dictionary definition, they are literal bigots: a person who is intolerant of any ideas other than his or her own, esp on religion, politics or race. As recently reported by Good Oil, new research shows that that describes the left to a T: more likely to dislike and criticise those that disagree with them than other voting blocs… less likely to work with their political opponents than other groups and more likely to think those holding different views have been misled.
Previous research has confirmed it: left-wingers, especially women, are the overwhelmingly most intolerant group on social media. They are twice as likely to block, unfollow and unfriend people who disagreed with them.
And when the left regularly accuse the right of picking ‘culture war’ fights? They’re projecting harder than an Imax theatre.
The desire to fight a “culture war” is the preserve of a small group on the political extremes that does not represent most British voters, according to a major new project on political polarisation in the UK.
A disproportionate amount of political comment on social media is generated by small, politically driven groups, according to the analysis. It found that there was actually widespread agreement in the UK over topics such as gender equality and climate change – often seen as culture war issues.
While this certainly includes a fringe of the genuinely extreme right, online culture warriors are overwhelmingly on the left.
Twelve per cent of voters accounted for 50 per cent of all social-media and Twitter users – and are six times as active on social media as are other sections of the population. The two “tribes” most oriented towards politics, labelled “progressive activists” and “backbone Conservatives”, were least likely to agree with the need for compromise. However, two-thirds of respondents who identify with either the centre, centre-left or centre-right strongly prefer compromise over conflict, by a margin of three to one.
But the most vocal on social media are the left. Of the two-thirds Brits who hover around the centre, 62 per cent said they had used social media in the past 24 hours.
The figure rose to 83 per cent for those it described as “progressive activists”.
This group on the extreme left are described in the report as “A passionate and vocal group for whom politics is at the core of their identity.” Anyone who’s seen how the left flocks to protests on an almost weekly basis can see that protest is what they live for. It’s their version of a social life. Instead of taking the kids to their footy match or indulging in a hobby, they play dress ups and wave their flabby arms at whatever this week’s culture war issue is. Indeed, the report finds that ‘progressive activists’ are twice as likely as any other group to even know what a ‘culture war’ is.
The classic case of the left picking a culture war fight and then blaming everyone else was the ‘Voice’ referendum in Australia. No one asked for it except for a tiny clique of hardcore left activists. Yet, when Australian voters overwhelmingly voted No, explicitly because they believed it was racially divisive, it was the left activists who screamed at them for ‘being divisive’. They’re still sulking and crying about it.
