There’s nothing the digital left loves more than an untimely death. And if it’s a violent one, even better. Charlie Kirk’s body was barely cold before his haters were chortling: ‘Bye, Nazi bitch.’ ‘Good riddance’, tweeted batshit hack Ana Kasparian following the death of US Senator Lindsey Graham. Even the revelation that Tory grand dame turned Reform UK spokeswoman, Ann Widdecombe, had been beaten to death with a hammer was insufficient to stem the glee of the death-laughers. ‘Racist old bitch’, said the madder ones. ‘Bigot’, said the more ‘moderate’ ones.
And now the ghouls are coming for Rod Liddle, the brilliant, contrary columnist who died on Sunday at just 66 years of age. Even before his grave is dug, they’re dancing on it. He was a nonce-defender, a racist and a raging ‘Islamophobe’, wail the humourless tossers of the prick left. That none of this is true, and that defaming the freshly dead is about as scuzzy as human behaviour can get, matters not one jot to the Liddle vultures. They’ve got virtue to display, and if they must do it from the soapbox of a beloved writer’s corpse, so be it.
It really has been gross. It’s been particularly bad over on Bluesky. That’s the social-media sewer to which liberals and leftists decamped en masse after X finally permitted women to say ‘he’ about cocks in frocks and the ‘gammon’ masses to say ‘I don’t like mass immigration’. As Joanna Williams reports, Bluesky’s riff-raff-dodging wankers have been posting laughing emojis and images of champagne corks popping. Imagine the depthless narcissism it must require to celebrate a man’s death because he said things you disagree with. ‘Nothing human is alien to me’ and all that, but I do struggle to fathom such industrial-scale self-regard that cheers the sudden passing of a much-loved husband and father because it means you and your piss-weak constitution will be spared his hurty words.
Liddle hate swiftly became the bloodsport of the bourgeois left. It descended into a dark arms race of digital cruelty, each lowlife trying to outdo the other. Don’t forget his ‘galloping racism’ and his ‘repeated defences of paedophilia’, said one author. He ‘relentlessly promoted racism’, said some yapping leftist. He was a ‘bloviating bully’, said a blogger. He wasn’t. If the fainthearts of the coddled middle classes felt bullied by his columns, that’s on them. What’s more, at least he ‘bullied’ people who were alive, and could defend themselves, unlike his own shame-free posthumous persecutors.
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