There is a meme on Twitter under the hashtag
#tweetlikealefty (or sometimes #leftylogic) in which people distil into less
than 140 characters the essence, nay the very quintessence of left-wing lunacy
of the two plus two equals five variety. For the left, belief is far more important
than observable truth and anyway, if you tell yourself it is true it becomes
the truth, doesn't it? The political equivalent of closing your eyes tight and wishing
very hard.
To give you a flavour of how the delusions of the left
are seen by people with a sense of humour – something denied the hard left, unless
they are cracking Thatcher jokes - here are a few I stole from my screen this
morning:
“If in doubt, ban it, delete it, censor it.”
“If you're winning the argument and backing your opinion
up with hard facts, I can shout racist and then I win.”
“I support freedom of speech, but some opinions shouldn’t
be tolerated in our society.”
“Tax TaxTax Tax Tax Tax Tax Tax Tax Tax Tax Tax Tax Tax
Tax Tax Tax Tax Tax Tax Tax Tax Tax Tax Tax Tax Tax Tax Tax Tax Tax!”
“We will stand up for the working man, by forcibly taking
his wages to fund those who can't be bothered.”
“Private schools should be abolished; as soon as my children
have finished theirs.”
You get the idea. My contribution to the cause this
morning was, “Your opinion is that of a closed mind. My intransigence despite
the facts is debate.”
I have firmly held views, why shouldn't I? After all, I've
been around for a while now. And in that time, in the face of evidence, I have
been persuaded to alter some of them and discard others. I like to believe – as
we all do - that my opinions are the result of experience, enquiry and examination
and are therefore pragmatic and not sentimental. But I have seen over the years
how leaders have been able to subvert human belief by that simple act of
propaganda - repetition. Say a palpable untruth often enough and it becomes dull
and inoffensive. Carry on saying it and you create a grudging acceptance that
it may be a valid point of view and then it is but one small step to setting it
in stone as an immutable truth.
A new buzzword for the bewildered white minority is the
Arabic word “Taqiyya” which describes a systematic concealing of the truth of
Islam, said to have originated to avoid persecution but nevertheless now meant
in a pejorative sense. In the nineteen eighties I encountered lies every day in
Libya, or rather, broken promises. “Mumkin bukra inshallah” was a casual lie concealing
the real truth which was, “Maybe tomorrow if I remember and if I can
be bothered.”
It is of course not confined to the Arab world. Spain has its “mañana” and Cornwall has
its “dreckly” but both come served with a knowing twinkle and sense of self-deprecation
and certainly with no malice aforethought. Taqiyya is a tad more sinister and the
Left has its very own form of taqiyya which is to adopt a stance and hold firmly
to it regardless of the facts, or of anybody else’s freedom of speech, then in
the face of unassailable logical defeat to simply ignore the argument and
resort to name-calling.
You will learn to love Big Brother
If you don’t believe what they believe you are wrong. If you don't believe what they believe you are a kaffir.
And yes, I use the anglicised version of that Arabic word precisely because some find it offensive. I guess that makes me a racist.
