Self-flagallatory culture

Mick Hume, writing in the Times of London on why asylum-seekers despise the country that helps them.

... from the moment they arrive here, asylum-seekers are told that Britain is a racist hellhole that deserves what it gets. And they first receive that message not from some fringe Islamic preacher, but from the heart of our self-flagellatory culture. Those bombing suspects came to a society that seems intent on denying that there is anything good about living here. Britain gave them schooling. But what exactly would they would have been taught?

Think of the miserabilist images of society that we are all subjected to these days. Britain is portrayed as institutionally racist and increasingly Islamophobic at home and abroad, a darkly degenerate place full of violent drunks and drug addicts, disrespectful "hoodies" and child abusers, pregnant teenagers and sexually transmitted diseases, whose people believe in nothing except football and getting fat in front of the television.

That self-flagallatory culture is the media message view both in the U.K. and our own MSM who, like the British media, benefit greatly from that self-condemnation. Not, mind you, that they are condemning themselves. It's the rest of us who are homophobes, bigots, racists, and morons. This condemnation automatically bestows moral superiority much like the self-congratulatory audience of a Jerry Springer show. Finally! someone to look down on. There is absolutely nothing these Liberal/Leftists like about Western culture, except, well, other Liberal/Leftists who are fond of furry animals, are against tax breaks, and think anyone who disagrees with them are nazis.

Mick Hume on the culpits.

Add to this poisonous cocktail the message instilled in asylum-seekers by many semi-official agencies: Britain is hostile; this is not your home; people here hate you; your human rights are being abused. It is not hard to see how all of this could encourage some losers to develop a sense of estrangement and eventually hatred. Tony Blair wants to crack down on extremist Islamist bookshops and preachers. He might start by asking where they get the ideas for their sermons about our corrupted society.

A good place to start is at The Guardian, the Independent, the BBC, and every Human Rights organization that has beaten their way to a microphone in the last ten years. (Of course most don't have to put that much effort into it. Usually the MSM here and in Britain simply phone them for the mandatory response to everything from public policy to every human tragedy the Left can benefit from.)

And while you are at it, add to that every social service agency that is well-stocked with radicalized university prats who share that contempt for their country and you have a whole anti-western industry. And, just in case those anti-western haters aren't fiscally successful, why there's always Leftwing funding through the Ford Foundation. Or George Soros. Or some malcontent Saudi royal baggage who is simply tired of waiting for his place in the royal line to advance. And they can always count on the haters in the MSM to cheer them on and give them free space.

What would PETA be without a MSM to carry their lunatic message? What, you might ask, would terrorism be without MSM soft pedaling their murderous outrages?