Greenies: They can dish it out, but they can’t take it
Posted on August 8, 2010Isn’t it strange how so many on the Left love to dish out the most outrageous verbal abuse but can’t take it in return?
George Osborne’s use of the term “deficit deniers” to describe those who pretend that radical public spending cuts aren’t necessary has produced a case in point.
Across the blogosphere and the commentariat, deficit deniers have got the heeby-jeebies about being called out for what they are. What makes it all so delicious is that, almost to a man, they are the same people who have merrily flung about the term “global warming deniers” or “climate change deniers” for anyone who has dared to disagree with their manifesto of massive tax hikes and restrictions on individual liberty in the name of environmentalism.
Indeed, it was they who took the controversial step of removing the word from its normal association with Holocaust denial and decided to use it as a political plaything. But they seem less keen on it now that the tables have been turned.
No-one better typifies this hilarious double standard than Tamsin Omond – the young woman, blue in blood, green in heart and deepest red in politics, who came to fame for a series of protests aimed at increasing the cost of household energy and restricting holidays for ordinary people.
Over at Liberal Conspiracy she has taken deep offence at the idea of being called a “denier” for her opposition to spending cuts. But where was the burning light of her moral outrage at such an unjust term when her colleagues and fellow protesters in the green movement were using it to deride their enemies?
For a political movement who never seem to shut up about “fairness”, it is a value which has been notably lacking among the Left of late.
Tags: Climate change deniers, Climate Rush, Communism, Deficit, Defict deniers, Economics, Environmentalism, Greenies, Liberal Conspiracy, public spending, Tamsin Omond
There was an article in today’s Sydney Morning Herald about the bullying that John Gay, former chairman of Tasmanian timber company Gunns, has recieved from Greenies. And it was bullying of the worst sort.
Smoke bombs were put under his house, stink bombs at his front door and dead possums in his yard. His wife was spat at in the supermarket.
In the end he was forced to resign from his job, for the greenies has ruined his reputation.
The Greenies also ruined Tasmania’s economy, and the livelihoods of Tasmania’s working class.
Greenies have never cared about people, and never will.
19.08.2010 08:32
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19.08.2010 10:06
The irony is that those dubbed “climate change deniers” never did deny that the climate changes — whereas the deficit deniers certainly do deny, if not the deficit itself, at least the risks it poses.
19.08.2010 12:52
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19.08.2010 16:21