The Disturbing Logic Of The Left | Melanie Phillips — Transcript

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1. 0:00the Western liberal mind um uh conceives
2. 0:04of itself as being um good because it's
3. 0:07liberal the Western liberal tells him or
4. 0:09herself I'm a good person because I'm
5. 0:12liberal I'm liberal because I'm a good
6. 0:13person which means that I believe in
7. 0:16things like the Brotherhood of Man um
8. 0:18conscience and compassion uh looking
9. 0:21after the uh The Wretched of the world
10. 0:23the poor and The Wretched of the world
11. 0:25standing up against abuses of power
12. 0:27these are all good things and that's why
13. 0:29I'm a liberal and I'm a liberal because
14. 0:31of all these good things so one of the
15. 0:34expressions of my goodness and my
16. 0:36liberalism is that I support the
17. 0:38Palestinian Arabs uh who I think are an
18. 0:42oppressed people and they are oppressed
19. 0:44by the Israelis who have taken their
20. 0:47land away from them and they are
21. 0:49oppressing them now every part of that
22. 0:51in my view is a lie but put that to one
23. 0:53side this is what the liberal
24. 0:55Progressive thinks and the liberal
25. 0:58Progressive thinks that supporting the
26. 1:00Palestinians is therefore something that
27. 1:02makes the liberal Progressive a good
28. 1:05person October 7
29. 1:08happened and suddenly you have a
30. 1:10situation in which the people that the
31. 1:12liberal Progressive has supported as
32. 1:14being oppressed and everything they do
33. 1:17is a legitimate defense or resistance
34. 1:20against oppression suddenly we can see
35. 1:25that those people have turned into the
36. 1:28most bloodthirsty Savages That Could
37. 1:31Ever Be Imagined not just people who
38. 1:33kill but who Slaughter in a sadistic
39. 1:39barbaric uh debauched and depraved
40. 1:43fashion that people can't imagine ever
41. 1:47happening they have
42. 1:51slaughtered raped
43. 1:54beheaded tortured burned alive babies
44. 2:00children women elderly men and
45. 2:05others and in which the people that they
46. 2:08have supported as being oppressed and
47. 2:10good people because they're their
48. 2:12victims are these Savages and the people
49. 2:15they have represented as oppressors are
50. 2:18the victims they can't have that because
51. 2:20if they have that if they admit that
52. 2:22that is the case then their entire
53. 2:24worldview is shattered because the
54. 2:27people you
55. 2:28know the the the cause they have
56. 2:30supported as representing goodness is
57. 2:33shown to be evil and what does that make
58. 2:36them it makes them evil so they can't
59. 2:39have it so what do they do they go to
60. 2:43extraordinary lengths to pretend that
61. 2:46black is white that Justice is Injustice
62. 2:49that oppression is resistance and vice
63. 2:52versa so they have to represent the
64. 2:54Israelis as being at fault the Israelis
65. 2:57are to blame for what's happened so so
66. 3:00there is no better way of of of blaming
67. 3:03people than accusing them of the very
68. 3:04thing they are the victim of projection
69. 3:07projection so you accuse them of
70. 3:09genocide we hear it also regularly the
71. 3:11Israelis are accused of being
72. 3:13Nazis um it's the same thing it's not
73. 3:16simply an offensive thing it's a very
74. 3:18deliberate thing because if the Israelis
75. 3:20are Nazis then then then we are free we
76. 3:24the liberal West are free uh of any kind
77. 3:27of guilt uh or any kind of association
78. 3:30with bad things because they are to
79. 3:32blame they are the people who are bad um
80. 3:35and so we are free to continue with our
81. 3:37fantasies of us being good people and I
82. 3:41think that's also what lay Behind These
83. 3:43amazing scenes that we saw on social
84. 3:45media of people with their hands tearing
85. 3:50down posters posters of hostages now you
86. 3:53have to ask yourself what's going
87. 3:54through the mind of someone like that
88. 3:56these weren't posters advertising Israel
89. 3:59they weren't ad izing the Israeli
90. 4:00Defense Forces they were pictures of
91. 4:03babies of children of women who had been
92. 4:07kidnapped by bloodthirsty Monsters by
93. 4:09Savage depraved Savages and were being
94. 4:13almost certainly subjected to Untold
95. 4:17Horrors and yet they were torn down and
96. 4:21the faces of the people tearing them
97. 4:23down were contorted very often with rage
98. 4:26and hate and you have to ask yourself
99. 4:28what's going on in the mind of that
100. 4:30person and it seemed to me that they Wen
101. 4:33that they were they they had to
102. 4:35literally with their fingernails tear it
103. 4:38out of sight it was something that could
104. 4:41not be tolerated to be in existence at
105. 4:44all the very concept of the Israeli
106. 4:47babies and children as victims of the
107. 4:50people they had been supporting because
108. 4:52it contradicted The Narrative on which
109. 4:54they had hung their own moral worth and
110. 4:57it seemed to me also they were tearing
111. 4:59the Jews out trying to tear the Jewish
112. 5:02people completely out of their world out
113. 5:06of their sight out of their world out of
114. 5:09their minds out of their thoughts and
115. 5:11out of their consciences that's to me
116. 5:13what it represented and this whole
117. 5:15inversion of genocide thing is part of
118. 5:19that it is not just disgusting it is not
119. 5:22just ridiculous it's evil and I think it
120. 5:27is a symptom of the evil paths into
121. 5:32which the West has fallen uh through its
122. 5:34Embrace of a whole range of ideologies a
123. 5:37whole range of thinking which um I think
124. 5:40has come to Define uh what we call the
125. 5:43liberal Progressive West