{"id":4656,"date":"2015-10-24T13:58:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-24T18:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/?p=4656"},"modified":"2015-10-24T14:20:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T19:20:27","slug":"on-the-hatred-of-the-anti-haters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/2015\/10\/24\/morality\/on-the-hatred-of-the-anti-haters\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Hatred of the &#8220;Anti-Haters&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Europe is an amazing sight these days.\u00a0 The leftists are doing what leftists do &#8211; fighting to eliminate any semblance of recognizable borders or national sovereignty, encouraging hordes of culturally alien immigrants to pour into the continent in the process.\u00a0 All this is being done in the name of &#8220;morality,&#8221; more or less in the same sense as one might jump off a cliff in the name of &#8220;getting exercise.&#8221;\u00a0 Leftists, whether they nominally belong to the &#8220;conservative&#8221; or &#8220;liberal&#8221; parties, control the media, the schools, the churches, and state power.\u00a0 But in spite of an unprecedented barrage of propaganda from all those sources, the populations of the countries concerned are starting to demonstrate a slight uneasiness, or, if you will, common sense.\u00a0 They\u00a0know that, historically, allowing the numbers of\u00a0unassimilable\u00a0aliens\u00a0in ones country to increase beyond a certain point has invariably resulted in violent social unrest, and occasionally civil war.\u00a0 They would prefer to avoid those outcomes.\u00a0 Denied any democratic means of expressing their opinions via, for example, plebiscites, some of them have taken to the streets in protest.\u00a0 The response of their masters has been remarkable.\u00a0 Aware that they lack any semblance of a democratic mandate for the profound and likely irreversible changes they have been making to\u00a0Europe&#8217;s demographic and cultural landscape, and also aware that the people are not with them, they have reacted with what one might describe as a form of hysteria.<\/p>\n<p>Germany, of course,\u00a0has been\u00a0taking a leading role in destabilizing the continent in keeping with time-honored tradition.\u00a0 As I have German relatives and a German wife,\u00a0I\u00a0pay particular attention\u00a0happenings there.\u00a0 As examples of what I have described above as the hysteria of the string pullers\u00a0in that country, one might consider the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Some of the first German citizens to take to the streets were loosely organized under the rubric of &#8220;PEGIDA,&#8221; (Patriotische Europ\u00e4er gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes, or Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the Occident.)\u00a0 Several similar groups have emerged since then.\u00a0 For the most part, they consist of citizens who simply gather in the streets and occasionally conduct peaceful marches.\u00a0 In other words, they are people who &#8220;peaceably assemble and petition the government for redress of grievances.&#8221;\u00a0 According to the <em>Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ),<\/em> the response has been to intimidate them with<a href=\"http:\/\/www.faz.net\/aktuell\/politik\/fluechtlingskrise\/imk-vorsitzender-roger-lewentz-im-interview-ueber-pegida-13868028.html\"> threats of surveillance <\/a>by the local equivalent of the FBI, rationalized by the claim that they are all merely puppets in the hands of right wing fringe elements.<\/li>\n<li>The &#8220;respectable&#8221; and &#8220;conservative FAZ also &#8220;informed&#8221; its readers about PEGIDA by\u00a0publishing<a href=\"http:\/\/www.faz.net\/aktuell\/politik\/inland\/extremismusforscher-hajo-funke-im-interview-ueber-pegida-13868472.html\"> an interview<\/a> with one Hajo Funke, described as an &#8220;extremism researcher.&#8221;\u00a0 Readers are left trembling over accounts of supposed &#8220;connections&#8221; between PEGIDA and\u00a0the murder of Cologne&#8217;s mayor by right wingers.\u00a0 U.S. readers should be familiar with this rather hackneyed tactic of claiming that whatever heinous crimes can be exploited for the purpose were &#8220;inspired&#8221; by whatever group one wants to smear.<\/li>\n<li>Media giant ARD\u00a0ran a story about\u00a0a &#8220;chain of lights,&#8221; made up of citizens holding candles and torches to welcome immigrants.\u00a0 Some of the supposed images of the event <a href=\"http:\/\/www.focus.de\/kultur\/medien\/ard-aktuell-chefredakteur-gibt-zu-versaeumnis-bedauern-wir-ard-verfaelschte-bericht-ueber-fluechtlinge_id_5029327.html\">turned out to be fake<\/a>, and were actually taken at a different event back in 2003.<\/li>\n<li>Not to be outdone, <em>Der Spiegel<\/em>, Germany&#8217;s largest news magazine, cites supposed incidents of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/netzwelt\/netzpolitik\/youtube-werbung-vor-hetzvideos-gegen-fluechtlinge-a-1058254.html\"> &#8220;hatemongering&#8221; against immigrants <\/a>on YouTube, and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/netzwelt\/web\/facebook-ermittlungen-wegen-verdachts-auf-volksverhetzung-gegen-manager-a-1058444.html\">inciting the populace<\/a>&#8221; on Facebook, with allusions of ongoing government investigations of the &#8220;extremists.&#8221;\u00a0 <em>Focus<\/em> magazine chimes in that one of these Facebook extremists has just been sentenced to more than two years in prison for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.focus.de\/digital\/internet\/hetze-gegen-fluechtlinge-facebook-nutzer-muss-fuer-mehr-als-zwei-jahre-ins-gefaengnis_id_5029871.html\">agitating against immigrants<\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0 That should &#8220;get his mind right.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anyone who suggests that the government might want to assume some elementary level of control over the borders and pause in implementing its radical policies until the citizens have been allowed to weigh in on the matter is commonly described in the German media as a &#8220;hater.&#8221;\u00a0 This is particularly true of any mention of the subject in <em>Der Spiegel<\/em>.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a bit rich considering that <i>Der Spiegel<\/i> takes the cake\u00a0among German\u00a0hatemongers in this century, and would have gotten at least an honorable mention in the last.<\/p>\n<p><em>Der Spiegel<\/em> was in the very vanguard of the lucrative game of peddling hate against the United States during the latest European orgasm of anti-Americanism which reached its peak about a decade ago.\u00a0 Many of the most egregious examples were documented on <a href=\"http:\/\/medienkritik.typepad.com\/\"><em>Davids Medienkritik<\/em><\/a>, now mothballed but still an excellent source of historical source material.\u00a0 I encourage readers to visit the site and page back to the posts prior to, say 2008.\u00a0 Among other things, <em>Medienkritik <\/em>put together a collage of <em>Spiegel<\/em> covers that pretty much says it all when it comes to hatred.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Spiegel-Covers.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4658\" src=\"http:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Spiegel-Covers.png\" alt=\"Spiegel Covers\" width=\"510\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Spiegel-Covers.png 510w, https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Spiegel-Covers-287x300.png 287w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 85vw, 510px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Have a look and you&#8217;ll see examples of\u00a0some of <em>Spiegel&#8217;s<\/em> favorite\u00a0quasi-racist anti-American\u00a0stereotypes.\u00a0 Of course, the gun nut and religious fanatic are there, as well as\u00a0well as such favorite themes as\u00a0Americans exploiting German workers, torturing prisoners, trading &#8220;blood for oil,&#8221; etc.\u00a0 Such relentlessly negative coverage of the United States occasionally reached levels that can only be described as fanatical, crowding out virtually all other news on <em>Spiegel&#8217;s<\/em> website.<\/p>\n<p>At the crest of the anti-American wave in Germany, one found similar &#8220;news&#8221; stories in virtually every German publication worth mentioning, from the left wing <em>Der Spiegel<\/em> to the &#8220;conservative&#8221; <em>FAZ <\/em>to the neo-Nazi <em>Deutsche National-Zeitung.<\/em>\u00a0 Standing bravely in opposition to this wave of xenophobic hate, calling for some modicum of rational and fair treatment of the United States, were a few little bloggers.\u00a0 These people had nothing to gain from resisting the hatemongers, went almost completely unnoticed in the United States, and were subjected to vilification and hacking attacks in their own country.\u00a0 They certainly deserve our gratitude.\u00a0 As it happens, one\u00a0of the most active of these little\u00a0blogs went by the name of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pi-news.net\/\"><em>Politically Incorrect<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s editor was a reliable voice against the pervasive peddling of hate at <em>Spiegel<\/em> and elsewhere.\u00a0 The blog still exists.\u00a0 It should come as no surprise that it is now taking a stand against the suicidal policies of the German regime.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, according to the editors of <em>Der Spiegel<\/em>, <em>Politically Incorrect&#8217;s<\/em> resistance to the uncontrolled deluge of &#8220;asylum seekers,&#8221; land it among the &#8220;inciters of the German <em>Volk<\/em>,&#8221; the &#8220;promoters of murder,&#8221; the &#8220;right wing extremists,&#8221; the &#8220;neo-Nazis,&#8221; and, in a word, the &#8220;haters.&#8221;\u00a0 In fact, the real haters in Germany are to be found elsewhere.\u00a0 Readers should find a clue about where to look for them\u00a0if they take a close look at\u00a0<em>Medienkritik&#8217;s<\/em> collage of magazine covers.<\/p>\n<p>I noted in my recent posts on James Burnham how well he exposed the sources of the current push to eliminate borders and allow the free movement of human populations across the globe in liberal fantasies of universal human brotherhood.\u00a0\u00a0I can think of\u00a0no better demonstration of the delusional nature of this goal than the spectacle of the bitter and fanatical hatreds of the very people who are foremost in attempting to force it down the throats of their fellow citizens.\u00a0 Their hate hasn&#8217;t gone anywhere.\u00a0 They&#8217;ve merely found a different outgroup to hate, in the form of anyone who dares to oppose their ideological shibboleths.\u00a0 And in the end, that&#8217;s why their current experiment in destabilizing their own countries is most unlikely to end well.\u00a0 As the rage of these &#8220;anti-haters&#8221; 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