Social media has rotted people’s morality
A daily social media diet of bad ideas has been killing people’s morality and judgment for around two decades now. Steered by algorithms, bad ideas beget bad ideas.
The harvest of this crop was displayed at Glastonbury over the weekend as the frontman for punk band Bob Vylan (no, me neither), from Ipswich of all places, led his Glastonbury crowd of mainly white middle-class twenty, thirty, forty and fifty-somethings to join in his chants of “Death to the IDF” broadcast live by the BBC.
Brazen antisemitism live on BBC
This after he tired of the much-used “From the river to the sea, Palestine must be free” (a poetic way of saying eradicate Israel and all Jews) heard frequently in British cities – ignored by police – sung by so-called pro-Palestine protestors.
So this is what we saw on our tellies from the UK’s main music festival: thousands of Brits (many of whom will be back in the office today with their corporate lanyards on) chanting the murderous poison of Hamas, the terror group whose operatives rushed the Gaza-Israel border on October 7 2023 and slaughtered young Israelis at, among other places, a music festival.
This is Britain, a nation with a proud history of opposing and defeating this kind of racism. But how memories fade.
And how people – not just youngsters but middle-aged people in the lanyard brigade – have become lemmings who so easily follow the herd, their judgment rotted by years of social media serving them up more of what they’ve seen or liked.
White middle class have lost their judgment
This tribe of people have lost the power of independent thought or judgment, of discerning between right and wrong. They’re ignorant. Their minds are full of someone else’s thoughts. So when hard-left Corbynists waving Palestine flags start chanting Jew-hatred, they have no cerebral or ethical checks. No resistance. They join in. Like reeds swayed by the wind. What fun, they think, and away they chant.
Pretty soon the whole crowd is chanting. Not dissimilar to the rallies by the National Socialist party in 1930s Germany. So many people swept along. So many reeds swayed by the wind.
Hamas poison is winning deluded people over
The main winner here is Hamas, and by extension its financial backer Iran, whose fact-twisting poison floods social media every day. Making out the suffering in Gaza is Israel’s fault, not Hamas’s. But perhaps not in their wildest dreams did Hamas think swathes of morally bereft white Britons – the posher ones too, those able to foot the hefty Glasto entry fee – would prove to be such useful idiots, and all amplified by the BBC. Result.
So what to do?
Sadly we have a technocrat human rights lawyer as PM whose views on things are borrowed from judges and legal advisors. So he’s no help.
Instead, those among us who understand the not-too-distant past, and have functioning brains that can see antisemitism for what it is, need simply to do this: Say what we see. If we see antisemitism, say so.
Not saying what we see leads to bad outcomes. A recent example is the grooming gang scandal. If politically correct establishment figures had, 30 years ago, allowed police and law enforcement to say what they saw – white girls being raped by predominantly Pakistani men – things could have played out so differently, and many young girls’ lives would not have been ruined.
Say what you see
So to the current trend for group-think antisemitism, and wrongly framing Israel, not Hamas, as responsible for the suffering in Gaza. If we – and by “we” I mean those not in the swathe of lemmings parroting Hamas poison – don’t say what we see, then we risk losing Britain’s past, present and future. Lose this and we lose our collective soul. Lose this and we lose who we are.
So, go on, say what you see.
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