It is true that on MN and the Guardian comments section and everywhere in the UK left there is a sneering derision for our own traditions and nation. And I would never vote for the Tories or UKIP but I hate the Left's "discourse" most of the time.
A quote: "It could not because Labour’s leadership of former special advisers does not look like the people it wants to represent and does not look as if it likes the look of them either. In this, it is typical of the wider educated left in England, which almost alone in the world, makes a virtue of denigrating its own people.
The universities, left press, and the arts characterise the English middle-class as Mail-reading misers, who are sexist, racist and homophobic to boot. Meanwhile, they characterise the white working class as lardy Sun-reading slobs, who are, since you asked, also sexist, racist and homophobic. The national history is reduced to one long imperial crime, and the notion that the English are not such a bad bunch with many strong radical traditions worth preserving is rejected as risibly complacent. So tainted and untrustworthy are they that they must be told what they can say and how they should behave."
That last line is so familiar on this board.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/09/labour-left-miliband-hating-english
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heylilbunny · 09/05/2015 22:40
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