Graduation Disruptions, Roadblocks and Hate

This is what actual hate looks like.

Some years back during one or more of my stints in Oxford — it might have been 2007 or 2011 — for days on end animal rights protesters against lab testing would direct their megaphones at the Sheldonian Theatre during graduations. It was one thing to disrupt my studies while I was in the nearby Bodleian Library, but I thought what sort of jerk does it take to disrupt so the special once in a lifetime occasion of graduation from Oxford?  Is it a trait of the animal rights people that they hate humans that much?

Of course the same question could be asked about the Hamas Nazis that are noisily disrupting this year’s graduations.

(Note that I am not talking about non-disruptive demonstrations, such as quietly turning one’s back to a speaker as some did when Biden gave his lying address to the Morehouse College graduation.  Nor am I talking about just walking out quietly or with very brief disruption.)

And what do such obnoxious disruptive demonstrations accomplish?  They get attention, yes, but surely the wrong sort of attention.  They make people have contempt for you and your cause.  And I noticed that Oxford students, hardly a right-wing lot, did have contempt for those animal rights campaigners.

I don’t want to focus on Oxford animal rights jerks though.  Let’s broaden a question:  Is it a trait of hard Left protesters that they hate humans?

Judging from their works, the answer has to be yes.  Roadblocks are perhaps the most revealing of these works.

Heck, when I’m in grocery check out and there is a problem with pricing or a coupon or such, I let it go.  I either immediately pay the price or leave the item aside.  I don’t haggle or have a store search done or whatever.  Why?  Because I don’t want to make people behind me wait.  I don’t like being stuck behind problem customers, so I don’t become a problem customer and make people stuck and their ice cream melt behind me. I’d rather something minor not go my way than make people behind me wait longer.  It’s not saintly.  It’s just being decent and having some empathy for my fellow humans.

So I cannot imagine what utter lack of empathy would make a group block a road so that unfortunate people who happen to be on that road cannot go about their day — especially when it is a bridge or highway or some other traffic situation when drivers cannot readily escape.  People are being held hostage then.  It really takes a high degree of hate, and not just passive but active criminal hate, to block roads like that.

An absurd chant of BLM road blockers was “This is what democracy looks like.”  No, this is what hate looks like.

BLM squandered the good will they had doing this among their other crimes and are now overwhelmingly an unpopular group.  Yet today Hamas Nazis and Just Stop Oil loons block roads and hold people hostage anyway.  They surely know that causes regular people hardship and makes people have angry contempt for them and their causes, but they do it anyway.  They, too, have squandered and lost sympathy for their causes.

Again, one has to really hate people, hate “all sorts and conditions of men” to do such a thing, to hold regular people hostage like that — and that to the detriment of one’s own cause!

I do not understand hate like that.  I am no psychologist so I am loath to analyze it.  It is hate that is so off the charts that one wonders what else they are capable of.

But it should be pointed out that these hard Leftists, who so often inveigh against “hate”, are actually the ones most inflamed by hate and are acting upon it.  The hard Left wants to make merely expressing opinions and God knows what else “hate crimes.”  If there ever was a hate crime, it is blocking roads and disrupting graduations as they do.

I’m not being that profound in so saying.  It is obvious.  But it often can be easy to miss the obvious until it is pointed out.  So I am pointing it out and encourage you to do likewise.  Those Leftists, who so prate about hate, prove to be the real haters when they block roads and disrupt graduations.

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Those who live in the Corpus Christi area know it is not exactly a hotbed of Anglican Choral Evensong.  So there is a treat for you tomorrow (Wednesday) evening.  The Choir of St. Timothy School Dallas will be singing Choral Evensong at Providence Reformed Episcopal Church at 7pm.

The church is located at Morgan and Alameda in Corpus Christi.  It would be an added treat to meet you there.