The Socialist Elite’s Lack of Empathy

A giant ash cloud caused by an erupted volcano in Iceland has made European air travel impossible, and thousands of people are now forced to spend days on ill-equipped buses across the continent. But the far-left lunatics are joyful. In the mind of the class warrior, “rich” people from Europe deserve pain and suffering.

Hans Lind of the Swedish branch of Save the Children is a perfect example of the socialists’ complete lack of empathy. In his blog, he suggests that families trapped on buses without toilets refrain from drinking beer and put their children in nappies.

It says something about how the elite travellers of NGOs think of ordinary people. Drinking beer is not what parents do when travelling with small children on buses through Europe. And to solve the lack of toilet facilities with nappies is simply not a solution.

Needless to say, Hans Lind has no children, and he travels the world in first class. He is a socialist activist and used to be a member of the Swedish Communist Party. Now he is the manager of Save the Children’s regional office in Latin America. He is quite typical of the jet-set socialists that pollute the world with their moralist smugness.

Update: Hans Lind noticed my criticism and replied by—you guessed it—some irrelevant remarks about Israeli politics. I criticise him for mocking European families tapped on ill-equipped buses and his first thought is to bring up Israel.