Elle Purnell writes for the Federalist about the “laziest and dumbest virtue-signal yet.”
Since the tactic of writing off half the country as “Nazi” “garbage” wasn’t working, the Democrat Party’s unofficial PR team has a new shorthand for everything they don’t like: “hate.”
At Sunday’s Grammys, Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio — a man who looked at himself one day and decided he wanted the entire world to refer to him as “Bad Bunny” — put this shorthand to practice, magically distilling arguments about immigration policy into a binary between “hate” and “love.” Celebrity award acceptance speeches are low-hanging fruit as far as journalistic criticism goes, so I’ll spare you a further breakdown. …
… The weaponization of the word “hate” is nothing new. Since 1990, the Southern Poverty Law Center has managed a list of “hate” groups, which now includes “Radical Traditional Catholicism,” Mons for Liberty. The American College of Pediatricians, and “pickup artists.” (SPLC defines the latter hate group as “a community of men who use certain seduction techniques referred to as ‘game’ to pursue sexual relationships with women.”)
But the slur has been deployed with renewed moral preening recently, at immigration agents who are enforcing immigration laws that a majority of the country voted to start enforcing.
Look for photos of white liberals taking to the streets to make their disdain for law enforcement known, and you’ll probably see someone who forced their kid to hold a sign like “Love over Hate.” Small-time revolution spokesman Abdikarim Khasim, who also works as a “Minnesota rideshare driver,” announced at a Minneapolis gathering that Americans “are facing a tsunami of hate from our own federal government.”
In Tallahassee, Florida, on Monday, a smattering of high schoolers played hooky to “protest” immigration enforcement. In the eloquent words of its teenage organizer, “The hate in the halls is loud, but we want to be louder.”
