As regards his more general attitude to the war, you must not rely too much on those feelings of hatred which the humans are so fond of discussing in Christian, or anti-Christian, periodicals. In his anguish, the patient can, of course, be encouraged to revenge himself by some vindictive feelings directed towards the German leaders, and that is good so far as it goes. But it is usually a sort of melodramatic or mythical hatred directed against imaginary scapegoats. He has never met these people in real life — they are lay figures modelled on what he gets from newspapers. The results of such fanciful hatred are often most disappointing, and of all humans the English are in this respect the most deplorable milksops. They are creatures of that miserable sort who loudly proclaim that torture is too good for their enemies and then give tea and cigarettes to the first wounded German pilot who turns up at the back door.
CS Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Back in the seventies the Army implemented a lot of bad ideas in the wake of Vietnam. One of them was “rap sessions” in which members of a unit could have a gripe session. At one memorable one a black private got up and proclaimed that he didn’t hate honkies, spics or kikes (his choice of words) but that he really hated officers. That got a huge round of applause from the enlisted men present, while the officers, especially the company commander, looked uneasy. “Rap sessions” in the Army were soon deep-sixed. Most people hate, if they hate anyone, the people who are personally causing them grief. White Leftists, with their emphasis on calling other whites haters, might be surprised who the other whites actually do hate.
Reminds me of a quote from Malcom X: “ “The worst enemy that the Negro have is this white man that runs around here drooling at the mouth professing to love Negros and calling himself a liberal, and it is following these white liberals that has perpetuated problems that Negros have. If the Negro wasn’t taken, tricked or deceived by the white liberal, then Negros would get together and solve our own problems. I only cite these things to show you that in America, the history of the white liberal has been nothing but a series of trickery designed to make Negros think that the white liberal was going to solve our problems.”
Enlisted men not liking officers? What are you gonna try to tell me next? That water’s wet?
“There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.”
― Fulton J. Sheen
Of course today thanks to an: emasculated and/or homosexual clergy, terrible scandals and a luciferian media -there are many more.
-that wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.”