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Sept. 15, 2016 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
09:46
The Sanctimonious Left： A Rant
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Okay, so I've got to get something off my fucking chest because I'm so, I'm just so goddamn sick of the left.
I'm...
I'm so fucking sick of the left.
I am so sick of the way they are these days.
And this is not me saying, oh, I'm a right winger now, because no, I'm obviously not a right winger.
But good God, the left is just, they're awful.
They're just awful in every fucking way.
For example, I can't stand how they won't deal honestly with the migrant crisis.
I just cannot stand it.
I can sit there being as factual as I like to like my left-wing friends on Facebook, and I know that they are too polite to call me a racist, but that's what they're thinking.
I can tell by the way they're interacting with me, that they think I am being racist by saying that the migrants have caused like 400,000 crimes in Germany.
Not rapes, obviously.
You know, that's been like, I don't know, something like 2,000 or something.
So actually a surprisingly small number in comparison to the number of crimes committed by such a large number of people.
But we're mostly talking things like theft, burglary.
You know, maybe muggings and stuff like this.
And just, these are real problems that are really affecting people.
And they are completely convinced that the only reason that the right wing is gaining ground in Europe is because everyone's a fucking racist.
And it's like, look, you must be making these racists then.
Because they weren't here before.
People weren't voting right wing.
They were voting left wing.
So all of a sudden all these racists have turned up.
I wonder why that is.
I mean, maybe they wouldn't be racists if we could at least listen to their complaints.
Which honestly, I think seem fairly fucking valid.
And if I had to live with these problems, I would probably be thinking, well, shit, if they're not going to listen to my complaints, then why wouldn't I go to the right wing?
Where else am I going to fucking go?
I just want someone to fucking listen to me.
And for the love of God, instead of me being treated as the victim of someone else's crime, for causes I didn't cause, for reasons I didn't cause, and things that's totally beyond my control, but suddenly I'm the one suffering crimes at the hands of migrants.
I would be very, very fucking annoyed if someone then turned around and said, look, you're only objecting to the migrants because you're a racist.
No, you would obviously be objecting to the migrants because they have committed a crime against you.
That's obviously the reason.
You don't need to fucking make up a reason.
You don't need to pretend like you're a fucking mind reader, which you are not.
You do not know why they are doing this.
And when they come to you with what is a reasonable and grounded-in-reality cause for them to say, look, I have a problem with these migrants, I mean, literally, Calais, they're blockading roads to stop lorries so they can jump on the lorries and get across and they get fined if they the drivers get fined if that's case I mean, what the fuck are they supposed to do?
To be fair, they are racist, aren't they?
No, probably not.
And if you don't do anything, then they certainly will be.
They'll certainly be finding themselves in common cause with the racists as well.
This is what's driving me crazy about the left.
It's just, look, people always say, oh, you never criticize the right.
It's because the right aren't the ones calling the shots.
The right aren't the ones fucking all of this up.
And there is just no end to it, and I am just, oh my god, I, it's embarrassing to say that I consider myself a left-leaning person.
It's genuinely embarrassing.
It's just cringy.
Absolutely cringy.
Get your fucking shit together.
Just.
And what I love most about it is it really is the soft bigotry of low expectations.
oh well, you know, it's their culture, no, that's not my problem.
ignorance of the law is not something that exempts you from the law and if they are all saying well this is I mean if that's their culture surely that's something that the majority of them share then.
So what you're doing is implicating almost all of them by saying, look, they all think that's the acceptable thing to do.
It's just the rest of them, for some reason, haven't done it.
I mean, I was at least giving them the benefit of the doubt and saying, look, it's just the ones who have committed the crimes because they are bad people or something.
I'm sure their cultures don't permit stealing and all this sort of stuff.
But you're the ones saying, well, you know, they don't know any better or something like that.
That's fucking awful.
And the worst one is, yeah, but what about the ones who haven't done anything?
It's like, well, A, you've just said that, well, they're probably likely to because that's the culture.
But B, that's a shame.
That's a real fucking shame.
But I don't think that, say, German schoolgirls should start having to stop, well, stop having to wear skirts and start wearing trousers or whatever it was they were doing.
I don't think Swedish girls should have a bracelet that says don't rape me on it because this is just absurd.
I mean, this is I'm sorry that some of the migrants might get unfairly tarnished with the brush of, well, watch him because he is a migrant.
You know, a little bit of undue suspicion, maybe, because he's not done anything wrong, but it's either that, or the, I mean, you're literally telling people, like the French fucking prime minister, you're going to have to live with this kind of thing.
You're just going to have to live with it.
You're going to have to live with this heightened risk of being raped and sexually assaulted if you're a woman.
You're going to have to live with just the increased level of crime.
You're going to have to pay out for all of this as well.
Because it's not like these people have got fucking jobs.
Most of them are illiterate, apparently.
And it's just like, okay.
Actually, that's not true.
I can't remember how many were illiterate, but it was a large number that were...
And it's like, right, okay.
So all of this shit's going down.
And the left are like, no, we can't talk about any of these problems because that would be racist.
And they are so fucking sanctimonious about it.
And they literally can't see why people are voting for the right.
You're just such fucking idiots.
The right have become the counterculture.
Even the traditional conservatives are starting to sort of emulate the alt-right in the meme.
And in the just online piss-taking and shit posting.
You know, don't get me wrong, they're losing their decorum, but they are understanding that this works.
It's just mockery of your opponent when they're being such an authoritarian bully.
And if it's not occurring to the left by now, I mean, seriously, you are making yourselves untenable and you're hemorrhaging supporters.
So just stop being so fucking sanctimonious towards the right wing.
just stop saying right-wing.
I mean, honestly, every time... God, I get called right-wing by, like... I wouldn't call them necessarily SJWs, but people are on the hard left, who, they think, by simply saying right-wing, that in some way invalidates what I've said.
It's like, look, I don't care what wing you think I'm on.
I'm trying to talk about an issue, and you're deliberately avoiding it.
It's like a child's method of internet debate.
It's just, it's pathetic.
It's embarrassing, and it's just another one of the straws on the camel's back.
How many exactly do you want on there?
Do you really want to find out how many the camel can carry?
I mean, honestly, by this point, it's probably fucking gone too far.
I bet there are so few people who would even would even listen to the end of this fucking video.
They will literally have dismissed what I'm saying out of hand, probably without even watching one of my videos.
And they will consider themselves to be the intellectually honest and enlightened ones in this event.
I just the arrogance of it, the hubris of it.
I mean it's just it just drives me nuts.
It really drives me nuts.
And I'm just I'm sorry to see the left go.
You know, there were so many well-meaning people on it.
But just deciding that everyone else was actually a bad person for not being on their team, that is just, you know, it just means that you don't want to have dialogues.
I mean, you literally don't want to talk about the issues.
And you understand that the populations are reasonably evenly split.
And with a large chunk of swing voters.
So it really is the person, it really is the side who actually deals with the issues accurately that wins.
It's genuinely those people who are doing it, which is why the Conservatives are kicking your arses.
This is why, I mean, Labour in Britain, my God, it just, oh, it drives me crazy.
People...
People share Corbyn shit all over my timeline constantly.
And I'm just like, yeah, but I know all of you people have white neighbours who are English and have lived next to you for years.
And you probably play backgammon with Naki, not that bad.
But, you know, you have a decent relationship.
You don't have any problems in your neighbourhoods because you don't live in the sorts of places where there are problems with these populations.
It just doesn't happen to these people.
And so they don't think about it.
And they think these people are just bad people for reporting the things that are happening to them.
That's the thing that drives me crazy about it.
It's like, look, you just gotta fucking be realistic.
These are real world problems that happen to real people.
And they're really causing a genuine political backlash.
Pull your heads out of your fucking asses and pay attention.
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