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Fun! Thanks to Arthur Chrenkoff, I have just learned that some loony Leftist has put up a site called “Dissecting Rightism”. It is a deliberate spoof of my “Dissecting Leftism” site. As Arthur said to me: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. The author has even gone to the trouble of copying my template—which must have been a little bit of work. The “View Source” command gets you only so far and I don’t think Pyra now circulate the original template on which mine was based. Anyhow, his work has just got him a link from me, though I doubt that any of my readers will log on more than once. The author of the site calls himself “Noel Chrotsky”, which seems to be a reference to two very nasty Leftist hate-merchants—Noam Chomsky and Leon Trotsky. I suspect that the author must be Australian. My site is a prominent one by Australian standards but is very small beer in any international comparison. I think an American Leftist would have spoofed (say) Powerline or LGF —though I see that LGF does already have a Watch site.

This little episode has caused me to reflect a little on why Leftist blogs seem to have far more hits and far more commenters than conservative blogs do. Kos, for instance, gets around 400,000 hits per day compared to Instapundit’s 200,000. I think the main reason is an obvious one: Leftist beliefs need a lot more propping up than do conservative ones. A conservative finds his views—such as the belief that you have to be careful whom you will trust—confirmed all around him every day, whereas a Leftist finds that his views—such as the belief that no-one (except “Rednecks") is really evil—constantly contradicted by events. So the Leftist needs all the help he can get to generate a distorted and selective view of reality that will keep him going. So he is far more active in seeking out supportive sites than conservatives generally are. And Noam Chomsky and Michael Moore have made a bundle out of catering to that need for confirmation of Leftist beliefs too, of course. The fragility of Leftist beliefs is also attested to by how abusive they become when questioned and the Stalinist way they do their best to keep all conservative thinking out of their university enclaves. Reality has to be kept at a distance by hook or by crook.

Generating a counter-factual view of reality takes some talent, however, so that also explains why right-leaning blogs seem to outnumber Leftist blogs by about 2 to 1. You have to be ingenious to defend Leftism whereas a conservative just has to point out the facts.

Posted by jonjayray on Sunday, December 19, 2004 at 09:18 PM in Blogs & Blogging
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Posted by Fred Scrooby on December 19, 2004, 09:57 PM | #

“The author of the site calls himself ‘Noel Chrotsky,’ which seems to be a reference to two very nasty Leftist hate-merchants—Noam Chomsky and Leon Trotsky.” (—from the log entry)

Perhaps partly, too, a reference to “Professor” Noël Ignatiev of Harvard “University” who explicitly advocates the non-violently coerced elimination of the white race from the face of the earth (coercion being, by definition, backed by the credible threat of violence, it’s to be non-violent only so long as that produces results, apart from which any violence necessary is justified including, one naturally assumes, the methods used on the Kulaks in the Ukraine, those we saw at Auschwitz, and of course the ones employed to such good effect in the Cambodian Killing Fields).

Posted by Guessedworker on December 19, 2004, 10:01 PM | #

John,

You must have got under somebody’s skin something shocking to make an effort of this magnitude personally worthwhile. Keep up the good work.

Posted by Arcane on December 20, 2004, 01:43 AM | #

Notice something about those two Leftist sites that you posted. On the LGF Watch site, they have a cartoon that mentions government programs being “underfunded” and calls the LGF crowd “racist.” Being that Bush is the biggest spender since Lyndon Johnson, I can’t help but wonder in fear how much these people would spend if they were in power…

And on the spoof of Dissenting Leftism it appears numerous times that he sites Islamic sources and points out approvingly that Nick Griffin was arrested for making statements critical of Islam. I wonder how many of these Leftists realize that they’ve entered themselves into an alliance with the very forces that would crush them if they ever came to power?

The Left allying up with the enemies of Western Civilization is nothing new, but this is getting ridiculous. It seems that will ally with anybody, literally.

Posted by Pericles on December 20, 2004, 11:10 AM | #

“The Left allying up with the enemies of Western Civilization is nothing new, but this is getting ridiculous. It seems that will ally with anybody, literally.”

This puts me in mind of the age old phrase “The enemy of my enemy is my friend”

Not a recipe for success in the long term.

Pericles

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