From the I Kid You Not dept: bbc radio 4 on Sunday, a whole half hour was given over to a very reasonably spoken black feminist zealot who informed the audience that women who take to the bottle to blond up are unconscious racial supremacists and making a covert or overt sign of racial superiority.
Where are these people coming from? Back in the 50's the Left in the US used to ridicule and make fun of the Right for seeing Commies everywhere - Reds under the bed etc but in a bizarre and ironic inversion it is now the Left that has become afflicted with paranoia -seeing racism everywhere and if it doesn't exist manufacturing it.
At least the Right had a case back in the 50's and in retrospect were proved right about communist infiltration in the arts and media and academia and many conservatives in the field at the time had been effectively blackballed when to be a lefty was practically mandatory in those fields. They at least had a case although they went about it the wrong way and the idiosyncratic and unstable McCarthy brought th whole thing crashing down thus discrediting a very legitimate inquiry.
But in this age of grievance and offense culture this sort of nonsense is endemic, people are making a living out of it and of course doing untold damage to the very people they are ostensibly representing. The Left is destroying itself but leaving an incalculable trail of havoc behind it in the process.
Tuesday, September 18, 2018
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