Thousands of Brits reject Seumas Milne’s outrageous defense of rioters

H/T Garry

Guardian Associate Editor Seumas Milne is likely the Guardian’s most ideologically extreme commentator – which, considering the competition, is really quite an accomplishment.  

Milne still passionately defends some of the worlds most brutal totalitarian forces as legitimate progressive “resistance” movements, be they the Soviet Union, the Viet Cong, or Islamist terrorist groups in Kabul, Baghdad, and “Palestine”.

So, his essay at CiF on the UK riots, “These riots reflect a society run on greed and looting“, Aug. 10, blaming the mayhem – which included looting, torching of buildings, robberies, and violent attacks against police and firemen – that he characterized as “multi-ethnic unrest ” on “police harassment”, “youth unemployment” “rampant [economic] inequality”, “the deepening economic crisis”, and the machinations of “neoliberal capitalism” may be an astonishing moral inversion, but also comes as no surprise. 

However, what was remarkable was the number of readers who rejected Milne’s radical, Guardian Left, elitist glorification of destructive criminal behavior.

On CiF comment threads it’s impressive when a comment garners a few hundred recommends, yet the first comment out of the block to mock Milne’s take on the riots has received 2,435 recommends.

No, Milne still doesn’t get it.

Remarkably, thousands of Guardian readers apparently do. 

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