‘Hate’

Hardly a week goes by without the powers-that-be or commentators in the servile mainstream media warning us of the ‘forces of hate’. Any challenge to the official narrative is cast as extreme, with slurs of ‘conspiracy theorist’ or ‘far right’. Hate, according to our progressive leaders, is a disposition of traditionally privileged groups striving to keep minorities in check, thereby ‘punching down’.

Ironically, the Olympics in Paris, which opened with a provocatively Woke ceremony, caused a furore when an Algerian man, claiming to be female, punched an Italian competitor so hard that she withdrew after 46 seconds. The trans boxer, clearly having male physique, towered over her before striking her face with full force.  Literally, that was punching down.

The concept of hate has proved very useful to the Cultural Marxist project to overturn conventional society and its norms.

Fleeing the Third Reich, many of the Frankfurt School professors moved to the USA, where their first achievement was the psychopathologising of conservative attitudes. In The Authoritarian Personality (1950), Theodor Adorno presented the F Scale, a personality test measuring authoritarian traits (F was an abbreviation for fascism). A rigid personality type was susceptible to aggressive impulses, suggestible to superstitions, and thus easily manipulated by demagogues, but Adorno’s instrument was designed to find hate in normal Christian families. Thus the foundations were laid for a pseudo-scientific onslaught on traditional values.

In the 1960s Herbert Marcuse, another Cultural Marxist, coined the phrase ‘make love, not war’, which became the slogan of the 1960s anti-war campaign and sexual revolution. With his doctrine of repressive tolerance, Marcuse justified silencing of conservative views, leading to ‘cancel culture’. In the divisive complex of identity politics, a white woman has no right to criticise a black woman, or a heterosexual to play the role of a homosexual in a movie. Equality before the law was replaced by a distorted dogma of equity, as expressed by the moral affront of ‘positive discrimination’. Anyone complaining, of course, is guilty of hate.

The modus operandi of Cultural Marxism is to attack the three Fs – the fascism of Adorno’s obsession was really represented by faith, flag and family. For decades, schoolchildren and university students have been indoctrinated into supporting anything other than Christian belief, national identity and normative family life. Indeed, traditional society is construed as the cause of all problems: it is a breeding ground for hate.

In Imperium, a classic reportage on the collapsed Soviet Union, Ryszard Kapuściński (1994) interpreted the resurfacing tensions between ethnic groups as an irrational regression to hate: –

‘Three contagions threaten the world.
The first is the plague of nationalism.
The second is the plague of racism.
The third is the plague of religious fundamentalism.’
As Kapuściński explained: –
‘A mind touched by such a contagion is a closed mind, one-dimensional, monothematic, spinning round one subject only – its enemy. …Anyone stricken with one of these plagues is beyond reason. In his head burns a sacred pyre that awaits only its sacrificial victims. There are no people – there is only the cause.’

 Doesn’t this obsessional and dehumanising zeal sound more like the intolerance towards people who resist Woke ideology? The author was writing about an area of high ethnic tensions between Armenians and Azerbaijanis, but his thinking was rooted in the anti-traditional doctrines of Marxism. Actually, faith, flag and family have been key to human progress. Kapuściński was throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

Racism, undoubtedly, has caused wars and persecution, but nowadays it is used to beat white people for their very existence. Television and YouTube advertising is a constant barrage of messaging that the family must be either mixed-race or BAME to be valued. Indeed, the establishment approach to white consciousness, rather than the angry protests at the Southport killings, is teaching indigenous Britons to feel guilt for what they are. Now that is really hateful.

Niall McCrae is the author of ‘Green in Tooth and Claw: the Misanthropic Mission of Climate Alarm’ (2024)

This piece was first published in Country Squire Magazine, and is reproduced by kind permission.

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