By Southwest Nationalist. Deputy London Mayor Richard Barnes is wishing that he’d stuck to hand washing after a comment about Persil landed him in hot water with the race Gestapo.
“Why did police put Persil in the water cannons? To stop the colours running?” he is alleged to have been overheard to say.
Before proceeding, it’s worth noting that all reports are referring to the fact that Barnes is openly homosexual.
Seemingly that might have little relevance, other than the tabloids desire to mention such things at every opportunity, but think about it for a moment.
It’s a mitigating factor, one minority, in this case sexual orientation, saying something about another minority. Very much we’re often treated to the idea that minority cannot be prejudiced, at least not in the way the rest of us are deemed to be.
Barnes is also Equality Advisor to Mayor Boris Johnson, another interesting snippet.
For those who despise political correctness it’s rather a fun moment though, seeing an openly gay equalities advisor in hot water over an allegedly racist remark.
It had to happen, the whole system of political correctness has taken on a life of its own, a Gestapo like bureaucracy of the absurd.
Created as a tool to oppress the majority, many proponents are now finding that the monster they had a hand in birthing and nurturing is more than happy to feed upon them as well.
One point worth mentioning is that Barnes claims he repeated the joke with disapproval, one might almost say in the same way news outlets have done.
If his claims are true, are all who reprinted it racist, will all suffer the attentions of the thought Gestapo, where does repeating and reporting become racism?
Who knows, it all depends who complains, the whole industry of -isms and -obias (and what an expensive and insane industry it is!) relies upon uncertainty.
Someone’s ability to be offended and to complain is the sole arbiter of guilt, truth and circumstance play little part.
One is no great fan of Barnes, and certainly one feels little sympathy that he is now discovering a painful truth, namely that all of this legislation which is an enemy of free thought and free speech has created a climate where almost anyone can find themselves on the receiving end of the thought polices metaphorical fingernail pulling.
Should he resign as many have called for him to do? Probably. He is, after all, a part of this system and a part of the problem. You can’t be an equalities advisor without being a part of the problem. He should uphold the standards of the system of which he has chosen to be a part.
There is certainly a bitter irony there for Barnes though, and further evidence that the thought police are ever present.
Welcome to modern Britain, a land where even the likes of Stalin would be forced to offer an admiring smile to the ever vigilant thought police, citizens keen to denounce, and a system where anything could be an offence – legally or otherwise – if only someone decides to complain that it is.
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There is, I’ve noticed, a hierarchy of political correctness – and this from the Marxists who supposedly don’t believe in hierarchies! This is essentially a hierarchy of who trumps who as regards issues of offence, insult, various -isms and legality. Muslims are at the top of the pile, because politicians are simply too afraid of them for it to be otherwise. Then comes coloured homosexuals, with white homosexuals and ordinary coloureds battling for third place. Then comes white women, then white men. Strangely, homosexual from the Muslim ‘community’ are at the bottom sometimes and at the top at others, depending on who aggresses them. If a white heterosexual male, for example, were to say anything untoward, he would be the subject of a book on demonology and cast out by secular state priests accordingly. If a Muslim were to do it, it would be brushed away under the carpet of cultural relativism, because, again, politicians are terrified of those ever peaceful Muslims.