Thursday, April 2, 2026

All Quiet on the Leftist Front

 Guest Essay by Bree Lindquist  

"I find it deeply ironic that those who fling the word “Nazi” around the most freely in 2025 seem to have no problem with actual mass-killings of Jewish people."

. . . "Why was antisemitism ever fashionable, in the United States, no less?

The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.  -Aldous Huxley

"Blind piety isn’t goodness. Standing up for your own rights is not hatred. And sacrificing society’s most vulnerable on the altars of ideology and agenda is hardly “progressive.” Most reasonable people living in a free society would agree with all of the above claims, but depending on who you ask, the devil is in the details. “Pious”, in what way? What exactly are the “rights” you’re standing up for? And who are society’s most vulnerable?

"Increasingly, the answers leftists give to the above questions fail to satisfy my sense of justice. I don’t believe that only fundamentalist conservative Christians can be blindly pious towards some ideal or cause. I reject the claim that “rights aren’t like pie”, because sometimes, the demands of one group will absolutely infringe on the rights of another. And I call bullshit, with my whole chest, on the claim that the most vulnerable people are comfortably first-world men in dresses who want access to women’s protected spaces, because the most vulnerable remain who they have always been: women and children, like Shiri Bibas and her sons Ariel and Kfir.

"A society that fails to prioritize the safety and welfare of women and children has achieved terminal velocity toward its fall. This can be illustrated in the culture of terror nurtured so lovingly by Hamas in Palestine, where their own women and children are used as human shields and chattel, and neighboring women and children are raped and slaughtered without remorse or shame.

"Hamas did not just kill these gentle innocents. They were brutally murdered, in fear and pain, a reality that their surviving husband and father must contend with for the rest of his life. He survived, but he may never live again, learning in increasingly lurid detail how the futures of his most precious loved ones were snuffed out." . . .

Children murdered by Hamas' bare hands

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