The new Inquisitors

Just been viewing an American Q&A with Brian Lamb interviewing columnist SE Cupp and she said something I have found to be true in Australia as well. They were discussing the 'hate mail' she receives frequently on her Website and she makes the comment of how interesting it is that the press have managed to convey the illusion that most hate mail comes from the right of politics.

 Actually she says, experience as well as the flood of email traffic to her site has shown her that the opposite is in fact true. Unfortunately, and in opposition to what we hear on a daily basis from the mainstream press, the most hateful reactions to differing opinions do seem to stem from the left. My experience tells me the same story.

Some commentators have postulated that this is so because the left luvvies believe that they are MORALLY in the right (superior) and therefore to disagree with them is to not only be wrong intellectually, but it is to be a heretic as well, which means that the same spirit that drove the inquisition drives them, ergo: hate!

UPDATE
A qoute from journalist James Delingpole to expand on the above premise:

What is it about the liberal-left and its pathological loathing of freedom of speech and open debate? And why, instead of engaging in ideas – supported by facts – must it instead so invariably resort to this crude, smear technique whereby its opponents must forever be dismissed as morally compromised?