Ladies and Gentlemen: The "Regressive Left" [View all]

[DetlefK]

You may have heard the term "regressive left" here on DU. Please allow me to give you a prime example of this movement. It's absolutely grade A.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016166570
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/02/western-media-propaganda-threatens-peace-and-prolongs-the-deadly-conflict-in-eastern-ukraine/

You see, everything is automatically the West's fault. Once you have accepted that simple truth, everything else falls into place. There is no need for journalistic research, no need for fact-checking, no need for evidence, no need for holding consistent positions. All you need to know is that everything is somehow the fault of the West.



Here are a few simple rules:

- If the journalists failed to look into one specific alternative explanation, then the whole reporting is automatically disqualified as a lie and western propaganda.

- You are in no way obligated to remember past events. (NATO helping end the Balkan war.)

- You are obligated to remember past events that make the West look bad. (The Iraq-war.)

- Political rivals of "the West" can do no wrong. Everything bad you hear about them is distortions and lies. All the problems they supposedly have (e.g. shortages and crime in Venezuela, meta-stable economy in China...) are distortions and lies. Even if a group has no interest in lying, e.g. Amnesty International's reports on how Assad's regime tortures prisoners, they are lying anyways.

- Do not hold others to the same standard as the West. (Ukraine trying to reconquer eastern Ukraine from secessionists is an illegal invasion of foreign territory. Russia fighting secessionists in the russian provinces of Chechnya and Ingushetia was not an invasion of foreign territory and fully legal.)

- Thou shalt not bring up evidence that would ruin the narrative.





This is the regressive left.
Hate.
Hate with all the fury you can muster.
Anything that contradicts your hatred is a lie.
The world can neatly be separated into good and evil and you are a hero fighting evil.