Rod Liddle has caused a whirlwind by taking facetiousness a step too far. We generally enjoy his outrageousness, but I have to say that when he occasionally opines on stuff he is evidently quite ill-informed about, it spoils the effect. Examples? Anorexia was one. I forget the others, but I promise you there are some.
On the other hand, has the entire world had a sense of humour - ectomy? Or do I mean ‘otomy’? As in when something offensive is surgically is removed. It’s so obvious (or it should be) that the controversial article in question was Rod Liddle's way of taking everything to the extreme end of its very extremism to demonstrate its absurdity. He does that. Unfortunately, people bypassed the sarcasm and deliberately misconstrued his rant as hate speech. Now he’s in hot water.
One of the things that people found most objectionable was the phrase “the sobbing and oppressed Rosie ‘#MeToo’ Duffield.”
"Is nothing sacred?” they wondered.
I thought the HoC was not a suitable arena for a personal and emotional speech of the kind she gave and the applause and hugging was incongruous too. I do sympathise with her predicament but I have already stuck my neck out by suggesting that her abusive partner obviously had problems of his own and might have needed understanding along with all the condemnation.
The stuff about Muslims was a reference to the fraudulent voting practices that everyone is busy turning a blind eye to. Bring it on, Rod. Someone has to.
If you watched Question Time from Birmingham, you’ll have seen a woman in a hijab - a "teacher of politics" no less - shrieking about Boris’s racist letterbox remark. I have yet to hear anyone ask people who express outrage at that particular remark if they really consider women dragging themselves around wearing the full-face veil to be in any way normal? Is a long black cloak with its mean little slit to look through really a suitable mode of ambulatory attire? What else does it look like, other than a bleeding letterbox?
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| suitably 'flattering' portrait of the offensive one |
Take care. Curb your language and trim your thoughts.
Update:
Brendan O'Neill agrees with me. "Rod Liddle was Joking, you idiots"
Update:
Brendan O'Neill agrees with me. "Rod Liddle was Joking, you idiots"
