Tuesday, 2 February 2016

Wilful Ignorance and Inconvenient Facts.


 
When Labour MP Jess Phillips said on BBC Question Time that similar attitudes held and crimes committed in Cologne, Germany were being committed in Broad Street, Birmingham every weekend, as well as across many towns and cities in Britain, and that we should not adopt a smug superior attitude or rest on our laurels in regards to sexual violence, I expected the reactionary right wing to rise up in unison and vehemently denounce her as a hysterical feminist and scaremonger. Guess what, the reactionary right wing rose up and denounced her as a hysterical feminist and scaremonger.

What I found breathtakingly arrogant was the wilful ignorance gleefully embraced by, mainly men, but some women as well, to the point that when women contacted media outlets and radio phone-ins to reinforce and back up Jess Phillips statement with actual evidence of daily harassment, they in turn were often denounced as liars by other callers, again mainly men, as well as presenters or so-called journalists.

This again was no surprise. I have long been inured against the reactionary and self-serving ramblings of the nom-dom owned right wing press, as well as the bigoted ramblings of some fat knacker who presents the LBC weekday breakfast show.

What I found truly disgusting was not just the condemnation, by these mediaeval muppets, of women who described how they were groped, leered at, molested or sexually harassed on a daily basis, but the level of desperation deployed by some of these chauvinistic dinosaurs to infer that sex attacks were mainly committed by immigrants and that the events in Cologne were only committed by Muslims and that they committed them because of the religion they supposedly practiced.  

First of all, the religion of the attackers in Cologne is unknown. But the main point is that chauvinistic attitudes towards women as well as the sense of entitlement some men adopt towards women is a cultural phenomenon, not a religious one. Sexist attitudes are prevalent throughout the continent of Africa,which is partly Christian, as well as eastern Europe, again mainly Christian, south Asia, which has large populations of Hindu and Sikh, and the middle east and south east Asia, which of course is predominantly Muslim.

What I found truly repulsive, was the backwoods attitudes of these neanathodol swamp dwellers, whose desperation to shut down the truth and to wilfully ignore the facts presented by actual victims of sex attacks, made you wonder if some of them ‘doth protest too much’. If you know what I mean.

Jess Phillips wasn’t stating that the events in Cologne are being copied 'identically' on the streets of Britain. What she was articulating was that women are subjected to similar acts of harassment every week of the year in Britain as well as in many other parts of the world . There are no gradations in sexual violence. Being sexually assorted by one, two, or three men is probably just as distressing as being assaulted by thirty men or more.
The principle is simple. No one has any right or entitlement to invade the space of any other person.

This wilful and deliberate denial of the facts is yet more proof that we, as a country, are descending into an ice age of Victorian values where the poor are expected to show deference, women should know their place and accept their lot, and both should be grateful for any crumbs that fall from the table of the establishment elite, the wealthy, and their quisling cronies in the media.

It would appear that this recent discourse has highlighted yet another negative aspect of the Tory government, in that the racists, sexists, xenophobes, jingoists, poor haters, BBC haters, Welfare state haters, NHS haters and chauvinists, seem to think it’s safe to show their heads above the parapet again because they believe their regressive beliefs have the tacit approval of 10 Downing Street, who do apparently appear to share many of them, as do many of the swivel eyed loonies inhabiting the Tory backbenches. 

This government is happy to see a divided nation because it allows them to work under the radar and continue to pursue their self-serving policies without any opposition, as well as helping to ensure the Tory's incompetence in areas such as tax evasion/avoidance, debt reduction, housing policy, Cameron's pathetic attempts at EU reform, privatisation of the NHS and the Tory’s continued war against the poor and low paid, goes unnoticed and unchallenged, as does the Tory's vile policy and short-termism as they asset strip the country's  wealth and services, selling many of them off cut price to their party donor mates.

Whether it be a Labour MP being attacked for telling the truth or migrants being blamed for every problem this Tory government creates, the Tory’s are happy.

The Tory mission statement is ‘take responsibility for nothing and always blame somebody else, but make sure you make a buck while doing it’.

 It’s also the motto of the coward.

Spitting Mad.

If you are one of those cretins who feel the need to expel the infected contents of your throat, mouth or lungs in public, then at least have the decency to spit into a drain, one of which is rarely more than fifty feet away. Don’t spread infection and disease by gobbing-up and leaving your diseased phlegm on the pavement, thus spreading infection and disease.

Thank you.

A bunch of……..?

Anybody with any sense knew what was happening when Cameron referred to immigrants in Calais as ‘a bunch of migrants’. Firstly, he was deploying this ridiculous ‘dead cat’ strategy to draw peoples’ attentions away from the Google tax fiasco facilitated by Chancellor of the Exchequer Gideon Osborne, who by hailing this derisory amount of back tax being paid by Google as ‘a victory, demonstrated how out of touch he is and how poor his political judgement is. The unpleasantly named ‘dead cat’ strategy is the Tories saying “we think the general public are stupid and will easily be diverted by any old crap we throw at them”. And secondly, Cameron was giving his racist muscle a rare outing in public. A muscle he has probably honed in private for many a year, probably since the glory days of the Bullingdon Club and beyond.

 
“Those that stand for nothing, happily fall for anything”.

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