Andrew Bolt: Idealism is just hatred in disguise
Activists including former broadcaster Mike Carlton and comedian Dave Chapelle are freely allowed to use their “anti-racism” as a way to disguise their own savagery, writes Andrew Bolt.
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Racism is just one way people can be cruel. Black Lives Matter supporters have shown us other ways — but their ways are apparently OK.
Former broadcaster Mike Carlton, who this month won an Order of Australia, is a big supporter of the race protests: “So good to see this!”
But this same Leftist wondered why another ABC panellist didn’t “leap from his seat and strangle” Liberal MP Nicole Flint, called commentator Daisy Cousens a “b----”, and last week abused Daily Telegraph writer Sharri Markson as a “lickspittle”, “halfwit” and “toady”.
All this without a peep from the anti-racism protesters, social media activists or journalists who claimed to be incensed at milder criticisms of female prime ministers by conservative broadcaster Alan Jones.
Carlton even infamously abused Jewish readers, telling one he was “the classic example of the Jewish bigot”, yet now brays that racism is bad, as if anti-Semitism doesn’t count.
So, does kowtowing to Black Lives Matter, an essentially racist movement, wash away other sins? Does it even licence you to commit other forms of cruelty?
Take NRL star John Hopoate, who last week claimed TV presenter Erin Molan, actually a lovely woman, had made a racist joke about hard-to-pronounce Polynesian names.
It seems that to Hopoate, at least, Molan’s “racist” joke was an excuse to unleash weapons-grade sexism.
He tweeted how he could also use a joke excuse should he “accidentally trip this RACIST B***H over and she falls and scrapes her RACIST mouth on the ground”.
Worse is comedian Dave Chapelle.
He has now released a rant on Netflix in which his supposed hatred of racism is his excuse for disgusting misogynistic abuse of black activist Candace Owens, who’d criticised protesters making a saint of George Floyd, killed by police in Minneapolis.
“I don’t care if (Floyd) personally kicked Candace Owens in her stinky p----,” raged Chapelle. “I don’t know if it stinks, but I imagine it does.”
What is extraordinary is that Netflix, so sensitive to “racism” that it even cancelled shows in which the brilliant Chris Lilley played characters in “brown-face”, ran Chappelle’s vilification in full.
How right philosopher Bertrand Russell was: “Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.”
We’re seeing that now: Activists using their “anti-racism” to disguise their own savagery. Feeling good about doing bad.