tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post8132250022338260252..comments2024-03-01T08:19:54.547+00:00Comments on BobFromBrockley: Thinking about death, six miles from Woolwichbobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-52321585205577319422013-05-24T13:19:28.820+01:002013-05-24T13:19:28.820+01:00"And then some of the lefties I follow on Twi...<br />"And then some of the lefties I follow on Twitter seemed a lot more bothered by the racism that came out in response to the killing than by the killing itself"<br /><br />This tells us something is perverse in the thinking of these people. But nothing new. Remember the first issue of LRB after 9/11 featured Edward Said, and others, doing exactly the same.<br /><br />And during the intifada, whenever there was a singularly bloody massacre of innocent Israelis, the same Rancid leftists seem to come out even more outraged against Israelis. <br /><br />It's a complicated and irrational reaction and can perhaps be explained by Norm Geras:<br /><br /> "Here is what can sometimes happen: one person wrongs another and doesn't know how to come back from that. So they deepen the wrong. They add further or worse misdemeanours, falsehoods, calumnies or what have you to the original one. This is the dynamic: to reinforce the thought that the first wrong wasn't one, anything which might diminish its recipient helps the offending party convince him or herself that the other must be a bad person, so that the first offence against them was somehow deserved. The deepening process is itself the symptom of a moral discomfort that cannot be squarely faced." <br /><br />It appears that to consider each horrific act in itself and the harm it brought to people and the world would somehow be tantamount to losing face. The Contentious Centristhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07370528817706233156noreply@blogger.com