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On the plus side, He-Man was at least progressive enough to announce his pronouns.
As Winston Churchill put it, ‘The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.’
Brexit: A Haiku Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.
That’s the wonderful thing about identity politics; you never have to explain yourself, or even develop your thoughts into what right-wingers call a ‘coherent argument’.
Inter faeces et urinam nascimur. St Augustine of Hippo
I magine thinking that free speech meant that people can say whatever they want, whenever they want. That’s exactly how Nazi Germany started.
Postmodernists have explained time and time again that language is the basis of reality. Nothing is authentically true beyond the discourse through which it is conveyed. This is why there were no homosexuals before the word was coined in 1868, no alcoholics before the first diagnosis in 1849, no G alápagos tortoises before they were discovered in 1535, and no electricity before it was invented in 1879. With this in mind, it seems obvious that in order to defeat bigotry, we only need to eradicate the words required to express bigoted views.
I’m reminded of a quotation by the novelist Sabine Baring-Gould: ‘God made most folks of clockwork and stuck them on their little plots of soil to spin round and run their courses, like the figures on an Italian barrel-organ.’ We must accept that, for most people, free will is a myth. The working classes in particular are forever teetering on the brink of fascism. If we don’t instruct them how to think and feel through the careful cultivation of popular culture, we risk nudging these malleable creatures into the abyss.
I am all for artistic liberty, but when it comes to cultural appropriation, or causing offence to disenfranchised groups, I do maintain that art should be subject to a degree of censorship. There’s a simple formula. If it entertains, it’s entertainment. If it offends, it’s hate speech. It’s up to the woke elite to supervise the boundaries. Join us.
