THE DOCTRINE OF HATE

Yet again the guardians of morality, decency and ethics spread their malignant message of hatred, encouraging people to slander and destroy a man whom they do not know, for actions, the details of which they know little about.

Yet they consider they know Robert Borsak well enough to call him evil, sub human and scum, while attributing all manner of antisocial intent and criminal culpability to his activities, though no legitimate court has tried him let alone found him guilty of any crime.

Were it not for the fact that Borsak shot an elephant, these same people might be demanding that his right to a trial by an impartial jury of his peers be respected at all cost. But in this case they're willing to make an exception because it serves them better to demand that he be burned at the stake on hearsay 'evidence'.

His critics are nothing if not adaptable to circumstance, their battle cry being "These are our principles, steadfast and uncompromising. If you do not like them, we have others!"

Let’s cut through the emotive, self-righteous pseudo-intellectual bullshit shall we...

They don’t like Borsak; they hate what and whom he represents, and they hate his culture. So much so that they will deny that it is ‘culture’ at all. They will call it a sickness and an evil and by doing so they will seek to obfuscate responsibility for the demonisation of that culture, which their hate campaign facilitates.

This is the nature of the zealot in the 3rd millennium; the social media lynch-mob, the angry villagers armed with virtual pitchforks and burning torches, the new-age Green Dominicans looking for witches to burn; the facebook trollers, the haters whatever their cause…and may the Gods have mercy on those subject to the justice they would preside over!

The belief that personal hatred justifies your actions and makes them righteous is the very essence of intolerance, prejudice and bigotry. It's what drove the Nazi death camps. It’s what drives the KKK to the conviction that African-Americans are sub human and can be treated - even killed - as animals.  It’s what made it OK for first settlers to shoot Aborigines. It’s what justified the theft of a generation. This politically expedient malevolence encouraging society to hate people because of their particular philosophy and culture, is what fuels the wars in the middle-east and anti-Islamic sentiment here at home. 

 

The people who peddle this poster encouraging the community to hate Borsak, do so in the belief that their perspective on hunting and animal welfare is the only  perspective worthy of respect, giving them the right to persecute and promote hatred with propoaganda contrived for that sole purpose. Yet Borsak’s activities are legal, whether the haters like it or not.

He obtained a licence to hunt the elephant, from the government that had jurisdiction over the animal and the hunt. He used a licensed firearm prescribed for the task. No ivory was imported to Australia as a result of the hunt. What then, has he done wrong, aside from daring to display pride in his culture and legal hunting activities?

From the very small amount of information contained in an article about the hunt, written by Borsak himself, these promoters of intolerance and execution by social media have taken it upon themselves to lash out in spiteful revenge for the death of the elephant and the pride of the hunter. In doing so they have thought about and determined that the inevitable pain and humiliation their public hate campaign will cause Borsak’s family is wholly justified. No doubt they'll claim that it's not their fault if his family is stupid enough to relate themselves to him.

High Priestess of Hate Sylvia Raye and her Minions of Malevolence have judged Borsak guilty of a offence against their sensibilities, so it goes without saying that his partner should be spat on in the street, his children persecuted and ridiculed at work, and his grandchildren marginalised and bullied at school.  The people who promote hatred and persecution are never responsible for the violence their actions foster.

When the mentally unstable person embraces this hate campaign as justification for blowing up a movie theatre during a screening of Life of Pi in order to make some obscure statement about hunting tigers in India, it won’t be the fault of Sylvia Raye and her ilk who encourage people to shoot messages of hatred into every office and bedroom, every tablet and iPhone, every street-corner and every schoolroom.  No-no, it will be Borsak’s fault for forcing them to resort to a hate campaign.

If he’d just bent to their political and social blackmail by agreeing to abandon his culture, to stop hunting elephants never again to represent the rights of people whose culture Ms Raye detests so fervently, everything would have been different. “Why did he make me do it”, she’ll cry on the stand, “Whyyyyyyyyyy?”

And the villagers who eat the elephants and other game animals that the likes of Borsak pay a fortune to legally hunt in Africa, what of them...does poverty absolve them of guilt for consuming the noble elephant? 

And the villagers who use the money derived from the legal hunt to fund community development initiatives at the coalface of poverty, hunger and despair, what of them? They promote the big game hunts and provide the guides, bearers and skinners without whom Borsak's hunt would not have been possible.

Do you plan to orchestrate a hate campaign against "sub human" African villagers who help kill elephants too, Sylvia?

If anyone is interested in the objective facts about legal big game hunting in Africa (as opposed to illegal poaching which no responsible hunter condones) along with its many benefits to the elephant and human populations,  you could do much worse than starting with program below from the UNSW series The Hot Seat -  "They shoot lions don't they?"

Anyway, I'll get outa ya way now....