Old media sucks #286

Colin at Thoughts from Galicia posted a link to this article by Danial Hannan where he assesses that most people who are against bullfighting have only adopted that position because they are sociopaths. In an article full of resentment and dislike towards people who hold a different point of view to him, Hannan argues that socialists, egalitarians and Islamists are all simply motivated by misanthropy, just like people who oppose the corrida.

Animals can be a handy cause for people seeking to justify their dislike of humans. There are always men casting around for a way to validate their sociopathic tendencies. A hundred years ago, they claimed to be outraged on behalf of the proletariat. Then, when working people found their own political representatives, the Angry Young Men took to championing colonials who were less likely to speak for themselves. Now, Nicaraguan day-labourers and black South Africans and the Vietnamese peasants have also found their own spokesmen, so the Sturm und Drang brigade have shifted to the one constituency than is guaranteed never to disown them: animals.

I mean, I know he's writing for the abominal Telegraph but does he really have to come off as such a measly, whiney, grovelling little prick of a sophist?

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July 14, 2008 | Filed Under Spain 

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