Philanthropy is the love of all mankind and misanthropy is the opposite. Xenophobia, bigotry and snobbery are misanthropic.
In Britain the highest-ranking misanthrope is the Duke of Edinburgh. Widely known for his ignorance and loutishness and recognised as a louse, he aspires after he expires to return as a virus to wipe out the world’s “surplus” human beings. Sir David Attenborough regards human population as a “plague on the earth” which must be reduced. Neither the Duke (96) nor the Knight (94) is in a hurry to eff off as a contribution to their cause. The billionaire George Soros uses his money to promote abortion and those who deplore his campaign are smeared as anti-Semitic.
The arch promoters of “Family Planning” were not notably champions of the poor, of non-white peoples, nor of the oppressed. The Rockefeller Foundation. Prescott Bush (father and grandfather of Presidents, and Bill Gates) were never short of cash. Bill Gates Senior held that no man should father a child without a permit (to be issued by whom?). Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) was a virulent racist and eugenicist and snob. She was honoured, before her death, by President Lyndon Johnson, years before the American Supreme Court declared abortion a constitutional right, a time when demonstrators used shout “LBJ, LBJ, How many kids have you killed today?”
Will anyone dare shout a similar slogan when Joe Biden gets into his stride?
Marie Stopes, though she didn’t advocate abortion, promoted the enforced sterilisation of those she thought unfit. A prime concern of hers was that rich people might otherwise pay taxes to subsidise the poor. It remains a concern of Ian Duncan Smith who withdrew benefits from families with more than two children and Jacob Rees Mogg who opposed free meals for children whose parents could not feed them because of the pandemic. Amongst the many peoples despised and hated by Marie Stopes were all Catholics, but she reserved a disproportionate measure of her bile for Irish Catholics. She had, however, great respect for one cradle Catholic, who had renounced the Faith. His name was Adolf Hitler and she wrote admiringly to him weeks before Britain declared war on Germany in 1939.
In March 1933 The IRISH TIMES in an Editorial “HERR HITLER’S WAY” welcomed Hitler’s accession to power. In a similar proof of its philanthropic altruism this morning (31 December 2020) the paper applauds the Argentinian Senate for legalisng abortion.
As regards Anglophilia, the IRISH TIMES has for most of its existence been seen as Anglophile by its admirers and its opponents.
I’ve lived in England for 56 years, worked, played and partied with English people. I’ve loved, liked and admired a great number of them.
But my understanding of Anglophilia is what plain-speaking Cockneys would call Arsehole-Crawling, and I’d call licking John Bull’s boots. English and British kings and governments have never been friends of Ireland’s people. They are today, as they were one hundred years ago our mortal enemies. Reading Ronan Fanning’s “FATAL PATH” I’m amazed how many Liberal, Tory and Labour leaders explicitly said so, and military commanders too. Poor Fintan O’Toole is mortified that his British idols are not the paragons of virtue, truth, courage and wisdom he imagined.
With a bit of luck O’Toole’s admirers, and admirers of THE IRISH TIMES, will come to their senses. Speed the day!
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