While there has been a lot of concern recently about the influence of language on violence I’d note that even aside from the lack of argument for a direct, causal connection there’s a distinct one-way approach to all this, which is that it’s only the language of Right-Wing politicians that can stir people to do things. And not just the language, but the strategy for political victory, as Chris Trotter pointed out in this article:

The campaign’s effectiveness, like the Brexit, Trump and Morrison precedents from which it borrows so heavily, has nothing to do with the presentation of positive policy. It does not seek to inform but to inflame. It bypasses both the heart and the head and goes straight for the gut. It arouses not hope but hate. Its goal is not unity but division. And it’s working.

Yeah, yeah. The Gabrielle Giffords shooting all over again. I have to keep pointing out that the likes of Trotter never stop banging this drum, the implication of which is that The Left – also known as The Bringers of Light and Warmth – never divide people up, go straight for the gut, inflame and create atmospheres of fear and anger. Chris obviously truly believes that: he has to.

For example: who is James T Hodgkinson? Answer without using DuckDuckGo.

Exactly.

Memory holed, along with all his social-media stuff filled with love for Bernie Sanders, Leftism –  and an overwhelming hatred of Republicans, who run concentration camps along the US-Mexican border. And we know who ran concentration camps, don’t we (wink, wink)? Or the sort of people who “deny health care to people“. And those sort of people need to be killed! The logic follows inevitably, assuming you accept those types of “arguments” in the first place. Hodgkinson did, though he proved to be a poor shot in aiming at the Republicans on the baseball field, merely wounding five, although one of them, GOP House Whip Steve Scalise, survived only because of superb medical care.

Things don’t change when the Left turn their language on themselves, as has been happening recently with the whole Trans vs TERF war:

Somebody slap this TERF c**t across the face.” 

“TERFs can choke on my girl dick.” 

“Pop quiz: if you kill a TERF, is it considered a crime? Answer: it is not. They are not considered lifeforms.” 

“Any trans allies at #PrideLondon right now need to step the fuck up and take out the TERF trash. Get in their faces. Make them afraid. Debate never works so fuck them up.”

Readers will note the similarities with the violent tone of Antifa’s language and their supporters, who are not focused on hating lesbians, yet have the same approach towards their ideological enemies.

Still, this has come as a surprise to lesbians, who are used to being on the front-foot in being confrontational:

“As a migrant and lesbian who was born in a totalitarian state it was really shocking to come to the Scottish Pride, where we carried a banner ‘Lesbian visibility’, and be shouted at, by a group of mostly male white teenagers with the transgender flags, that we need to be “fucked”, “ashamed” and “get the fuck out”.

“I am not sure what this Pride is supposed to represent, but what I experienced was very simple and uncovered misogyny – and a specific misogyny towards homosexual women who dare to define and defend their sexuality without men telling us what it should be – clearly sanctioned by the Pride organisers.”

Mostly white, male teenagers. Perhaps that’s the real problem? Perhaps all this – whether it’s Antifa beating up “Nazis” or Trans beating up Lesbians – is simple cover for basic instincts to be let loose.

And that means that it’s the desire for violent confrontation with ideological enemies that produces the language, rather than the other way around. The language is simply another weapon, designed to keep the Pure and Noble going forward against the “Nazis”/”Transphobes”/”whatever” (“They must be destroyed“), while also keeping on the back foot the “Nazis”/”Transphobes”/”whatever” (“They’re isolated so can be easily destroyed“).

In any case, the result of this Far Left violence is that common ground has been found between groups that are supposed to be at loggerheads, which is why four prominent members of the US Women’s Liberation Front recently turned up to speak at a panel discussion held by one of the Hobgoblins of the Left, The Heritage Foundation:

It really should not be a surprise though. Aside from common ideological ground in opposing the addition of ‘gender identity‘ to the 1964 Civil Rights Act, there was also the simple fact that no liberal or left-leaning organisation wanted to hear what these woman had to say.

And then people wonder why Trump got elected. You have to wonder how many Left-Wingers are being pushed towards the Right – in voting if not ideas – by the unbridled violence and violent, hate-filled language of all the fringe Far Left groups currently being appeased by leading Democrat politicians.

As a famous former President said, it’s okay to “get in people’s faces” and work at “punching back twice as hard“.

That was just harmless, exaggerated, political rhetoric said for shits and giggles, no?