Their virtuous hatred is reserved for their own side,and its ugliness will destroy the myth of leftwing decencyStereotypes arent always pernicious. Leftwingers maintain benefitted for years from being typecast as decent people. They may possesses the self-righteousness of a teenager who had just become a vegetarian”, as Jess Phillips, and the marvellous Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley,warned. But like teenage vegetarians, they mean well. whether the world does not always turn out the way they planned, and that is the world’s fault. It would be a better place whether it did as the left told it to,sat up at the table and ate its greens.
Stereotypical rightwingers could not be more different. They are sexist, racist and hypocritical. Tories are motivated by greed and prejudice. The far legal is driven by brutish blood lusts.
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Source: theguardian.com