THE BRITISH INQUISITION
The British Inquisition is determinedly rumbling along and becoming more extreme [as all such witch-hunts do].
Recently, there was the furore over some remarks made by Prince Harry in a video he had shot in March 2006, in which he referred to one of his army colleagues as ‘our little Paki friend’ and subsequently referred to another camouflaged soldier as looking like a ‘raghead’.
So what? This is the army and not the girl guides. But, apparently, these remarks were deemed by the race zealots to be racist and so Prince Harry has been denounced.
But who published the remarks? Prince Harry did not. No, it was a Sunday newspaper which paid a large sum to obtain copies of the 3-year-old video which it promptly published. That allowed for much of the press and media to indulge themselves in the anti-racist self-righteousness.
Had they been really bothered about not causing offence, then they would not have paid large sums of money to publish material that they professed to be racist.
Now Carol Thatcher has fallen foul of the race zealots. In a BBC green room with Adrian Chiles and Jo Brand, Carol Thatcher apparently used the term ‘gollywog’ in reference to a tennis player - comparing his hair to that of a gollywog figure which used to appear on the side of Robertson’s jam jars.
Reportedly, Jo Brand was angry and walked off in disgust and Adrian Chiles was reportedly ‘outraged’ and ‘upset’, although, reportedly, Carol Thatcher’s version is that no one said a word about the comment. Whatever the truth, the remark was reported to executive producer Tessa Finch. After failing to produce a sufficiently grovelling apology, Carol Thatcher has been fired.
Where Carol Thatcher has been naïve, is that she ever thought that she could talk so freely and use politically incorrect language to someone like Jo Brand, who is hard Left. We now know a little more about Adrian Chiles.
Shami Chakrabarti said on tonight’s Question Time that we had now learned that such a term as ‘gollywog’ or ‘Paki’ is racist, . That is the point, in that the politically correct have successfully imposed their view on everyone else. Such terms are racist because the politically correct tell us they are racist and an alternative view is not permissible.
The common feature of the case of Carol Thatcher and Prince Harry, is that they had made private comments which were then published by others and denounced. We are in the era when private comments are only permissible if they are politically correct. Even the Tories agree with this, as Theresa May demonstrated tonight on Question Time, and Dave Cameron denounced Prince Harry’s remarks as ‘completely unacceptable’.
Writing at the time of the Prince Harry episode, Andrew Alexander wrote:
Exactly.
Recently, there was the furore over some remarks made by Prince Harry in a video he had shot in March 2006, in which he referred to one of his army colleagues as ‘our little Paki friend’ and subsequently referred to another camouflaged soldier as looking like a ‘raghead’.
So what? This is the army and not the girl guides. But, apparently, these remarks were deemed by the race zealots to be racist and so Prince Harry has been denounced.
But who published the remarks? Prince Harry did not. No, it was a Sunday newspaper which paid a large sum to obtain copies of the 3-year-old video which it promptly published. That allowed for much of the press and media to indulge themselves in the anti-racist self-righteousness.
Had they been really bothered about not causing offence, then they would not have paid large sums of money to publish material that they professed to be racist.
Now Carol Thatcher has fallen foul of the race zealots. In a BBC green room with Adrian Chiles and Jo Brand, Carol Thatcher apparently used the term ‘gollywog’ in reference to a tennis player - comparing his hair to that of a gollywog figure which used to appear on the side of Robertson’s jam jars.
Reportedly, Jo Brand was angry and walked off in disgust and Adrian Chiles was reportedly ‘outraged’ and ‘upset’, although, reportedly, Carol Thatcher’s version is that no one said a word about the comment. Whatever the truth, the remark was reported to executive producer Tessa Finch. After failing to produce a sufficiently grovelling apology, Carol Thatcher has been fired.
Where Carol Thatcher has been naïve, is that she ever thought that she could talk so freely and use politically incorrect language to someone like Jo Brand, who is hard Left. We now know a little more about Adrian Chiles.
Shami Chakrabarti said on tonight’s Question Time that we had now learned that such a term as ‘gollywog’ or ‘Paki’ is racist, . That is the point, in that the politically correct have successfully imposed their view on everyone else. Such terms are racist because the politically correct tell us they are racist and an alternative view is not permissible.
The common feature of the case of Carol Thatcher and Prince Harry, is that they had made private comments which were then published by others and denounced. We are in the era when private comments are only permissible if they are politically correct. Even the Tories agree with this, as Theresa May demonstrated tonight on Question Time, and Dave Cameron denounced Prince Harry’s remarks as ‘completely unacceptable’.
Writing at the time of the Prince Harry episode, Andrew Alexander wrote:
‘It is hard to see why anyone in his right mind would want to be monarch of a country bursting with such pious, pompous, prudish, sanctimonious, semi-hysterical, self-righteous, mealy-mouthed, whining prigs.’
Exactly.
posted by erc @ 1:10 am
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