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For those of you who are unfamiliar with slam, it’s like regular poetry but with extra pauses. And there’s usually a lactose-free buffet at the end.
Never let a man tell you that you are not a victim. A malnourished homeless man sleeping in a gutter is still essentially more privileged than the Queen.
In August 2018, Ann Millington, chief executive of Kent Fire and Rescue, called for the popular children’s television character Fireman Sam to be renamed ‘Firefighter Sam’ in an effort to encourage greater diversity in the services. Millington’s point is indisputable. The only reason women don’t go into firefighting is because they’ve had no stop-motion animation role models.
In many ways these modernday ‘keyboard warriors’ have surpassed the work of King, who in any case was on record as saying that he believed people should ‘not be judged by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their character’. He clearly knew nothing about intersectionality, and was therefore a self-hating racist.
Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court justice whose nomination procedure was dogged by allegations of sexual assault, is a further case in point. I was very impressed with the novelist Stephen King, who during the hearing simply tweeted ‘I believe the woman.’ I’m assuming, of course, that this was in reference to the accusations against Kavanaugh, because if it was a review of To Kill a Mockingbird then frankly it’s in very poor taste.
One of the unwritten rules of a democracy is that referendums can be overturned if a sufficient number of rich celebrities demand it.
When her statement was challenged by a Dartmouth College student during one of her lectures, Sarsour simply refused to answer on the grounds that he was a ‘white man’. 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’.
The day my intersectional feminist poetry earns me as much as a male banker is the day the gender pay gap can be declared a myth.
In fact, so determined was she to put off potential voters, she referred to Trump supporters as ‘deplorables’. If any of them were wavering, she certainly didn’t wish to be tainted with their endorsement at the ballot box.
Clinton’s plan worked beautifully. She lost the election and thereby retained the moral high ground.
