Yes, I agree with this. It's incredible how blind people are to their own hate. It's simple tribalism. It's pervasive and it's becoming worse. If someone 'signals' - deliberately or otherwise - that they belong to a different tribe, that's 'hateful'. However, if the signals are all in accord with one's own tribe, as long as they are all approved signals, they can't possibly be hateful. This video makes some very interesting and eye-opening points about tribalism:
Speaking as someone who moves almost entirely in leftist circles, I now find the left viscerally scary. Morrissey may not be always coherent in his public pronouncements - he says some things I think are bizarre or just plain wrong, such as his comment about the Chinese, which was bizarre, wrong factually
and wrong morally - but he at least shows some principle in his sticking to his beliefs in the face of outrage, and occasionally he even hits the mark, as with his recent comment about Soviet Britain.
As for 'cancel culture', mentioned in the article, that reminds me of a number of things. Orwell's idea of becoming an 'unperson', for instance. (This idea is echoed in the work of the poet Yang Lian who was exiled from China, especially in his collection
Non-Person Singular.) And there's also this article which mentions, among other things, Comrade Clemetis being removed from the photograph with Klement Gottwald:
https://quillette.com/2019/03/31/historical-amnesia-and-kunderas-resistance/
Is this really the road we want to go down?
Well, to his credit, the writer of the article at least resists to some extent. The Western world was not as hysterical and censorious as this last century. I feel sorry for those born this century who think this witch-hunt hysteria is normal.
