Yesterday, ‘liberal’ Twitter erupted in cheers as information of the dying of journalist Rohit Sardana unfold all over the place. He was solely 40 years previous. He leaves behind two younger youngsters. How would you react?
Did it shock you that liberals have been so pleased concerning the passing of Rohit Sardana? Did you attain out to them and say that it’s not okay to mock a grieving household? Or did you convey up the matter of human decency? Well, in the event you have been indignant or stunned, then you haven’t understood in any respect how liberals assume.
Liberals dehumanize their opponents. If you aren’t with them, your life has no worth of their eyes.
I’m not saying this to make you indignant. I’m telling you one thing very fundamental that you want to perceive about liberals. According to them, your very existence is a prison offense.
In case you’re suspicious, let me make clear that I’m not utilizing the time period “liberal” as a euphemism for any explicit group. In reality, in case you are connecting this to members of some faith, you’re very a lot mistaken. The common liberal with a Sanskrit identify hates you simply as a lot as every other liberal.
You might wish to name them evil. You might really feel like reminding them of all these occasions when right-wingers rose above partisanship to point out kindness to the opposite facet. Again, that is futile. They will not be backyard selection hypocrites. A hypocrite understands that they’re utilizing a double customary. A liberal may be very totally different. A liberal has a excessive sense of goal and ethical certainty. They consider they’re the kindest, gentlest, most respectable human beings round. They simply don’t depend their political opponents as human.
Why do liberals really feel this fashion? Because they consider they personal the world. And why not? Every textbook, each newspaper, each establishment has all the time confirmed their perception. They have the liberal privilege. That is why somebody who helps the bloodbath of CRPF jawans is described as an “80 year old poet.” But somebody who wears a Hanuman shirt is put instantly on an inventory of potential terrorists.
Indian liberals noticed the verdicts of 2014 and 2019 on the identical strains as a revolt by serfs. They don’t think about the present authorities to be authentic and by no means did. It has nothing to do with whether or not they assume India has free and honest elections. Their downside with elections is that the opposite facet will get to vote as nicely. According to them, this itself makes the election unfair. And if the opposite facet wins, this makes the federal government illegitimate.
With faces like Rohit Sardana on prime time, the opposite facet encroached upon what liberals consider as their area. For that matter, they see the BJP itself as encroaching upon the corridors of energy, which belong to liberals by birthright. And by extension, BJP supporters are additionally encroaching upon a nation that additionally belongs to liberals by birthright. Is there something, you would possibly surprise, that liberals don’t see as their property? Short reply: no!
You, your nation, your vote, your voice, every part belongs to them. By not utilizing these in a approach that pleases your liberal masters, you could have turn out to be a prison of their eyes.
So what’s the answer? How are you able to get liberals to begin seeing you as human beings? The easy reply is that you would be able to’t, except you’re prepared to undergo them. So cease pleading, cease justifying, cease speaking about decency. Yes, liberals excessive fived one another as a result of they heard {that a} political opponent is lifeless. And they really feel fully at peace with themselves about it. In reality, in the event you remind them that their opponent had two younger youngsters, they aren’t going to really feel unhappy or ashamed. They will probably be much more thrilled. Because liberals have dehumanized the remainder of us.
What can we do then? Not a lot, however we will tune out their reactions. We can cease speaking to them about human decency. Because that can solely give them extra probabilities to chuckle at us.