I often wonder how someone is said to have had far right motives immediately after committing
what is said to have been a xenophobic crime. An example of such a case
is the one recently to have taken place in Germany in which a German
citizen was alleged to have killed 9 individuals, then his mother and
then himself. Some of his victims were said to have been Turks in a
hookah bar, possibly in two such bars. The media has immediately referred to him, in essence, as a far
right xenophobe. More at the source.
As I recall, throughout history:
Hitler
was an extreme leftist - he was the leader of a socialist (leftist)
nation.
Hitler orchestrated: the Holocaust - 6 million Jews or 2/3 of the
world's Jewish population exterminated; Generalplan Ost - estimated
losses were 4.5 to 13.7 million Soviets killed by the Germans; Genocide
of the Poles - estimated losses 1.8 million to 3 million. He also killed
a very large percentage of the German mentally ill, German criminals, a
fairly large number of Catholics and a high percentage of the Romani
(Gypsies - up to half a million exterminated) not to include all
millions of the dead of many nations due to warfare.
Stalin
was far left he was the leader of the USSR a communist & socialist
(leftist) nation; he orchestrated the Holdomor - the man-made famine that
is estimated, by the United Nations, to have killed 7-10 million;
however some estimates go as high as 12 million Ukrainians; Kazakh genocide, part of the same famine that killed off up to 42% of the entire Kazakh population or up to 1,750,000 Kazahks. The high estimated total of those deaths, 13,750,000, is possibly more than were killed in the German concentration camps during WWII, the estimate of those concentration camp deaths are as high as between 12 to 13 million.
Pol Pot
was the leader of Cambodia and was a communist/socialist (leftist). He
orchestrated the Cambodian genocide of an estimated 1.4 to 3 million ,
up to 33% of the Cambodian population, targeting groups such as
Vietnamese, Chinese and Thai Cambodians.
Now
don't get me wrong, there are a few to several genocides in modern
times that have been committed by what are or legitimately could be considered rightist
governments. These would include:
One would
be the: Yeghern or as it is also called the Armenocide the
Armenian Genocide in which at least 50% of the Armenian population was
believed to have been exterminated, 700,000 to 1.8 million lives wiped
out; the Greek Genocide is another with 500,000 to 900,000 killed. Both
were committed by the Turkish Ottoman Empire.
That empire was conservative only in as much as they espoused and
conserved Muslim ideals.
The
Rwanda Genocide (and I could be wrong that their government had ideals
on the right but I believe they did) in which an estimated 70% of the
Tutsi population was wiped out along with many Hutus and Twa amounting
to about 70% of the Rwandan population.
Yet,
when an individual exhibits the same so called xenophobic motives -
they are almost invariably said to to have had
extreme right motives and virtually none are ever attributed with those
ideals or motives of the extreme left - even though those on the extreme left are those who committed the
worst genocides throughout history. Even Adolf Hitler is usually alleged
to have been on the right, by the media and other leftists, despite the
facts that he created and then led the Nazi Party - a newly formed
brand of socialism. In fact, when someone commits such a crime today, he
is almost immediately labelled as a xenophobe with extreme right
ideals. Yet, when someone obviously has committed a terrorist act,
authorities and the media almost always say that there can be no
determination made as to whether or not terrorism was involved until
further investigation has been completed, this even when someone mows
down people while screaming "Akbar Allah".
Why
is that? It makes absolutely no sense, there is no logic
to it except twisted logic to say anyone committing what are viewed as
xenophobic crimes had motives anywhere on the right
when they emulate those on the extreme far left as well as those on the
extreme far right - with those on the left historically having
committed the worst of such atrocities. Well, maybe it makes
sense in as much as leftists today evidently never seem to want to admit
that their ideology, when taken to the extreme, almost always winds up
in
genocide of at least one group and often of multiple groups who are
considered not pure in some way or another and that the genocidal
atrocities committed by leftists have been the worst of all throughout
modern history. Again, that is not to say that governments on the right
have not committed genocide - I am merely pointing out that is is
ludicrous at best to immediately attribute rightist ideals to those who
commit what are allegedly xenophobic crimes.
All the best,
Glenn B
1 comment:
It’s simply the left using the mass media to spin and redefine terms. In the western world the political parties are all largely owned by wealthy oligarchs and for the most part, are nothing more than paid actors for them. The idea is to use them to give dirt people like you and I the impression that we have a say in our own affairs. The mass media is their mouthpiece. They now effectively own our voice, our language and our cultural identity. This is just one of the millions of small ways that they try to shape our reality and fit it into their narrative.
Anything evil will come from ‘the right’. If it comes from the left, it will be spun or redefined so that it appears to come from the right. Or the mass media will ignore it. The general rule is that if you must rely on mass media, assume it is fake, and that the truth is 180 degrees away from what they say it is.
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