Leftism and Presumption of Guilt

RedState elaborates on the natural guilt of the Oppressor Class:

"This presumption of guilt is absolutely crucial to collectivism. The Left must teach its subjects to think of themselves as criminals. That’s the only way law-abiding people will endure levels of coercive power that would normally require specific accusations, a fair trial, and the possibility of appeals. Social-justice “crimes” can be prosecuted without any of those things. There is no appeal from the sentence, and no statute of limitations on the crimes, as any left-winger who thinks today’s American citizens need to suffer for the historical offense of slavery will be happy to explain to you. There’s no evidence you can present in your defense, for the Left has read your mind, and knows better than you what demons lurk in its recesses.

This is one reason the Left dislikes the trappings of constitutional law and order. The presumption of innocence is highly inconvenient for social crusades; it’s the antithesis of collective political “justice.” The current demonstrations against police officers include explicit calls to deny them due process (sometimes escalating to simply calling for their summary execution.) The Obama White House is said to be thinking about stripping police officers of grand jury protection, since those procedures have such a disappointing tendency to review evidence and decide charges are not warranted. The mob wants this because they are said to have “lost confidence” in the legal system. In other words, their ideology has revealed who is guilty, so legal proceedings based on overcoming the stout hurdle of presumed innocence are mere trickery to frustrate the righteous crusade."

If the Messiahs don't allocate you to the Victim Class, then you are automatically placed in the Oppressor Class, the class in which everyone is guilty by definition. If you are in the Oppressor Class you have been summarily judged and convicted merely by skin color, sex, or political affiliation. If you speak, it will be a hate crime. If you are mobile, then you are predatory. It's really very easy from the perspective of the Left. There is no utility in presuming innocence when your guilt is already established. Why else would you be in the Oppressor Class? You are an oppressor by virtue of the privilege contained in your skin tone. Wrong skin tone? Then you are an oppressor: guilty! Guilty!

But no guilt for the Messiah Class: they are genetically virtuous:

"It’s very convenient to declare that you don’t have to engage with dissenting ideas because they all drip from forked tongues, but there’s more to the liberal presumption of social guilt than that. It also flatters their egos – the Anointed Ones are the only members of society who aren’t guilty of prejudice, even when they display the most corrosive prejudice towards the groups they don’t like. Most importantly, it illuminates their vision of a righteous elite exercising vast power to force virtue upon miserable, unworthy citizens, who cannot be left unregulated to indulge their monstrous impulses. "

The entire purpose of the three-class system of Social Justice is to install the Messiahs into their deserved totalitarian positions of power. The nation has been conditioned to the new classes they inhabit:

"If you think micro-regulators should be running society, and government should be taxing money away from the proletariat before they hurt themselves with it, then by definition you don’t think very much of the people you’re planning to tax and regulate. You must see them as thieves, exploiters, and haters… their vision too short, and too clouded with bigotry, to make important decisions about the fate of the nation. Leftists have a boundless appetite for stories that reinforce their low opinion of the people they dominate… and to be honest, some of the dominated are hungry for reassurance that they did the right thing by ceding control of their lives, and the lives of their neighbors, to the Left. People who have relinquished their freedom must learn to think poorly of themselves, if they are to sleep well at night."

Although there are many names for the PC Police of the Social Justice Warriors, they all refer to the three-class, New Man theories that are Marxist or close variants of Marxist totalitarians. These people are intellectually stunted and emotionally weak, so they need to attain power for compensation of their emotional weakness and there are no intellectual barriers for those who have rejected truth, anyway.