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| Nick Cohen – has the temerity to call a spade a spade |
There is a corresponding corollary to liberal leftists’ disturbing brooding tendency to cast foul invective against people who disagree with them: an inability to look in the mirror. This has been abundantly demonstrated by leftist reactions to the contemporary left-wing writer Nick Cohen, who in 2007 had the courage, honour, and integrity to write a book entitled What’s Left, which listed in a pretty straightforward, non-controversial and objective fashion the obvious shortcomings and contradictions inherent within modern liberal leftist movements. The Guardian reviewed the book as follows: "A roaring polemic of outrage against the moral and political crisis of the liberal tradition. It is already one of the most discussed current affairs books of the New Year – at the very least, it forces anyone on the left to think carefully about where their movement has ended up in the modern world". Well, judging by how Guardian readers react to and comment on anything that Cohen writes in their newspaper these days, not a lot of careful thinking and soul-searching has taken place; in fact, it seems a substantial portion of those on the left are indulging in real wilful ignorance and are in a state of full-blown denial about the manifest failings of leftist ideology and the terrible (tragic? – no, pitiful would be more accurate) mess they find themselves in. This malice-mixed-with-ignorance-and-denial stance is plain for all to see: witness the following comments to an article Cohen wrote at the beginning of March documenting how Ken Livingstone had been engaging in certain tax avoidance practices that might be deemed a tad hypocritical (note: The Guardian removed dozens of vile slurs and attacks against Cohen):
agreewith
4 March 2012 12:13AM
It's time that pretend journalists were held to account for their spurious correlations.
lonelysoul72
4 March 2012 12:37AM
Been a long time since i read such utter shite. A long , long time. Mind you that idea that Nick Cohen speaks for the "left" is laughable in itself.
TimMiddleton
4 March 2012 12:21AM
You're not very happy about the fact that Ken has sought to forge links with muslims, are you?
FidelCastro1
4 March 2012 12:22AM
At least he doesn't support illegal imperialist wars though, eh Nick?
Mendocino
4 March 2012 12:37AM
Oh Nick.
Where did it all go wrong?
WatTylersSister
4 March 2012 7:30AM
Nick Cohen - from the Andrew Gilligan School of Journalism
BettyWindsor
4 March 2012 7:51AM
Nick Cohen
Surely this article was intended for publication in the Daily Telegraph?
And then, amid all the bile and poison, the following extremely perceptive comment shone out (bold mine):
CyrusSpitama
4 March 2012 6:28AM
At university I used to wonder how so many lefty students could possibly be apologists for the brutal fascism of the Soviet regime.
More recently, I wondered why so many lefties seem to have become apologists for Islamists and even supporters of truly terrible and utterly fascist organisations such of Hamas and Hezbollah.
Speaking to them and reading their comments in places such as CiF, it’s plain to see that large sections of the British left are motivated not by honour, nor by any rational ideological viewpoint. They are motivated by hatred.The strongest of these hatreds is the hatred of the west and in particular, hatred of America.
Such people wilfully refuse to see evil where it exists and are even happy to support anything or anyone who is the enemy of America.
How those of us on the right long to see Nick Cohen go the extra mile and shuffle off his leftist chrysalis once and for all, to fully embrace conservativism in all its forms. He has the honour and guts to make the journey that Peter Hitchens and Melanie Phillips made before him. I feel like imploring Cohen in a similar way that Jack Nicholson implores the great Red Indian to "put the ball in the basket" in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest:
Go on, Nick, you can do it, you can do it! Go on mate, reach out, go for it, make the final step!
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