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I've always been right wing. The people on the left, I've always seen as "the other team" or the "opponent". Only now have I actually begun to ask: What are leftists?
I was reading up on the news lately that Obama is visiting the shrine in Hiroshima of the nuclear bomb, re-igniting the debate of whether or not the US should apologize for nuking Japan. I was reading through the comments, and one person, a foreign student living in Japan, had visited the shrine himself and encountered the Japanese who themselves were astonish "as to the idea that the US should apologize at all, and that it was a reasonable thing to do during wartime".
This made me ask myself, where did this debate originate at all, if not from the Japanese? Immediately I remembered of leftists and the explanation became clear: Of course leftists would want the US to apologize, same reason why they were the ones to argue that blacks are oppressed minorities and that white people are evil.
But then I re-examined the situation; the leftist are absolutely wrong. Related to the nuking of Hiroshima, few if any Japanese think the US should apologize, and why should they? It was war!
It then dawned on me of why the leftists want the US to apologize: its not because of what the US did, its because of what the US is: white, Christian, patriarchy. Of course I don't mean that everyone in the US are white male Christians, but thats how the leftists see the US as. And they hate the US for it. Same reason for any situation: Leftists want to protect minorities not because they care for minorities but because they hate the majority. What they do is determined by hatred, not love.
So then it made me re-examine the question: what are leftists? Are they parasites? Are they a phenomena of people that transcend borders and ideology? Are leftists something more than "the opposition"?