In March 2018, I wrote a song to the theme of The Lego Movie called Everything is racist!
My song contained the line…
“White milk, nursery rhymes, we just named some racist things”
This was meant to be a joke. In 2021, a member of the weekend hippies of Stinky Conformism, Alison Plaumer, told Brighton Council that serving too many dairy products is racist because a lot of non-Europeans are lactose-intolerant. As lunacy goes, this is right up there with estate agents not calling the biggest bedroom the ‘master suite’ because, you know, ‘racism.’
See also Picture of the Day #47
Wibble.
In March 2021, Pimlico Academy in London was at the centre of accusations of ‘racism’ after a new uniform code was introduced. Not only that but the school dared(!) to fly the national flag which caused protests and graffiti claiming…
“There ain’t no black on the Union Jack.”
In a previous post, Picture of the Day #50, I called Black Lives Matter “the National Front of our times.” In my benighted 1970s youth, the National Front were opposed to any non-white immigration and one of their slogans was…
“There ain’t no black on the Union Jack so send the bastards back.”
Modern ‘anti-racists’ are nothing of the kind but are in fact bringing back old and discredited ideas (neo-racism?) and a new type of racial separatism (neo-segregation? Perhaps neo-apartheid?). The ‘anti-racism’ of these folks is exactly one word too long. I’d like to compare what I think is real opposition to racism with the neo-racism of the ‘anti-racists’…
* ‘Anti-racists’ see race everywhere, except for where it doesn’t fit with their political agenda. Doesn’t real opposition to racism at least attempt to be colourblind without denying the instances of real racism when it occurs?
* ‘Anti-racists’ see everyone as a member of their racial category. Wouldn’t it be better to treat everyone as an individual?
* ‘Anti-racists’ often excuse anti-white racism and, particularly, anti-Semitism. Surely all racism is wrong?
* ‘Anti-racists’ know that racism comes from putting social significance into racial categories, but continue to do so because they appear to believe discrimination and prejudice can be used to fight discrimination and prejudice? I can acknowledge that racism comes from putting social significance into racial categories, but I do not believe you can use discrimination and prejudice to fight discrimination and prejudice.
* Many ‘anti-racists’ appear to endorse racial stereotyping. Just last week, there was a pathetic row when some BBC ‘diversity’ shill said Idris Elba’s character in the police drama Luther wasn’t ‘authentic’ because he didn’t eat Caribbean food. Elba’s father was from Sierra Leone and his mother was born in Ghana. Isn’t it better to reject racial stereotyping?
Again, wibble.
But if the ‘anti-racists’ are mad, they don’t hold a candle to the TRAs (Trans Rights Activists) of Twitter (where else?). Here’s an incomplete list of things that are transphobic (I copied this list from a mad Scottish website called Wings Over Scotland that makes the Scottish Nazi Party look sane so apologies for any dodgy links)…
1. Gender-neutral toilets are transphobic.
2. The desire for privacy is transphobic.
4. Having a “genital preference” is transphobic.
6. Talking about prison reform is transphobic.
7. Women’s rights are transphobic.
8. Every dictionary in the world is transphobic.
10. Transwomen writing about trans schoolchildren are transphobic.
11. Liking someone’s tweets is transphobic.
12. Retweeting a poem is transphobic.
13. Debating proposed changes to the law is transphobic.
14. Telling parents about their child’s sex change is transphobic.
15. The word “bisexual” is transphobic.
16. The words “gay” and “lesbian” are transphobic.
17. Writing about “men” and “women” is transphobic.
18. Saying men and women are different is transphobic.
19. Making jokes about genitalia is transphobic.
20. Writing books with transgender characters in them is transphobic.
21. Keeping foxes out of henhouses is transphobic.
22. Holding public meetings about feminism is transphobic.
23. The entire British media is transphobic.
24. Drag queens are transphobic.
25. The phrase “ladies and gentlemen” is transphobic.
26. Thinking you know if someone’s male or female is transphobic.
28. The Daily Show is transphobic.
29. The Colbert Report is transphobic.
31. Mike And Molly is transphobic.
32. The Cleveland Show is transphobic.
33. How I Met Your Mother is transphobic.
34. South Park is transphobic.
35. Family Guy is transphobic.
36. Two And A Half Men is transphobic.
37. Doctor Who is transphobic.
38. Pink woolly hats are transphobic.
41. Dogs are transphobic.
42. Facial recognition software is transphobic.
43. Bank security checks are transphobic.
44. Airport security checks are transphobic.
45. Chocolate bars are transphobic.
46. Nice weather is transphobic.
47. Climate change is transphobic.
49. Mothers Day is transphobic.
50. The phrase “Mother Earth” is transphobic.
51. Martina Navratilova is transphobic.
52. Paula Radcliffe MBE is transphobic.
53. Sharron Davies MBE is transphobic.
54. Dame Jenni Murray is transphobic.
55. Dame Kelly Holmes is transphobic.
56. Dame Edna Everage is transphobic.
57. Germaine Greer is transphobic.
58. Meghan Murphy is transphobic.
60. The Vagina Monologues is transphobic.
61. Cervical smear tests are transphobic.
62. The modern remake of The X-Files is transphobic.
63. The modern remake of Tootsie is transphobic.
64. Academic research into transgender issues is transphobic.
66. Psychiatric research into transgender issues is transphobic.
66. Trans people talking about trans rights is transphobic.
66. Saying that women get abortions is transphobic.
67. Saying that women have periods is transphobic.
68. Using anatomically-accurate language is transphobic.
69. Investigating the circumstances of child rape is transphobic.
70. Wanting to have sex with trans people is transphobic.
71. Not wanting to have sex with trans people is transphobic.
72. Gendering cats is transphobic.
73. Calling girls in an all-girl school “girls” is transphobic.
74. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective is transphobic.
75. Crocodile Dundee is transphobic.
76. The Naked Gun 33 1/3 is transphobic.
78. The Silence Of The Lambs is transphobic.
79. The 40-Year-Old Virgin is transphobic.
80. Trainspotting is transphobic.
81. Dressed To Kill is transphobic.
82. The Crying Game is transphobic.
83. Diamonds Are Forever is transphobic.
84. Paddington is transphobic. (Yes, Paddington. Shut up, transphobe.)
85. Correctly defining the word “castration” is transphobic.
88. Bud Light beer is transphobic.
89. Protecting young children from abuse is transphobic.
90. Not being allowed to call women “scum” is transphobic.
91. Female sport is transphobic.
92. Including transgender characters in videogames is transphobic.
93. MPs talking to women’s groups is transphobic.
94. Graham Linehan is transphobic.
95. Ricky Gervais is transphobic.
96. Frankie Boyle is transphobic.
97. The director of Queer Up North is transphobic.
98. At least 37,000 people on Twitter are transphobic.
100. Wings Over Scotland is transphobic.
101. Transgender writer Miranda Yardley is transphobic.
102. Telling young children their bodies are fine is transphobic.
103. Supporting a trade union picket line is transphobic.
104. Debating women’s issues is transphobic.
105. ScotRail is transphobic.
106. Acknowledging the medical condition of intersex is transphobic.
107. Philosophy is transphobic.
108. Birth certificates are transphobic.
109. Being imprisoned if you commit a crime is transphobic.
110. Working in a gender clinic is transphobic.
111. Body hair is transphobic.
112. Medicine is transphobic.
113. Peaceful protest using stickers is transphobic.
114. Deciding that you’re not transgender after all is transphobic.
115. Not tweeting about corsets is transphobic.
116. Being pansexual is transphobic.
117. Pregnancy is transphobic.
118. Childhood is transphobic.
119. Questioning gender identity is transphobic.
120. Banning men from women-only spaces is transphobic.
121. Women modelling women’s lingerie is transphobic.
122. Facebook is transphobic.
123. Shakespeare is transphobic.
124. The NSPCC is transphobic.
125. Reporting a court case is transphobic.
126. The alphabet is transphobic.
127. The post is transphobic.
128. Children are transphobic.
129. The Pogues and Kirsty McColl are transphobic.
130. Sitting next to someone on a train is transphobic.
131. Chromosomes are transphobic.
132. The female orgasm is transphobic.
133. The word “woman” is transphobic and should be replaced by “womxn”.
134. The word “womxn” is transphobic.
Congratulations, if you got to end of that list. I certainly haven’t.
Double wibble.
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Womxn is ghastly and unpronounceable. How about Wyman instead (for pre-chop XYs)? The advantages are (a) it slips off the tongue (Ooh, missus!) and (b) the descender of the ‘y’ shows the intact part!
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