Self-Awareness

December 25, 2022 Longrider Civil Liberties, General News, General Rants, misanthropy, Political 8

The furore over Jeremey Clarkson’s article on the Sussexes continues apace.

A spokesperson for the couple accused the Sun of profiting off and exploiting “hate, violence and misogyny”.

Here we go, the usual buzz words. Misogyny is a hatred of women, not intense dislike of one individual woman. Markle is a manipulative, lying narcissist. Her lack of self-awareness is jaw dropping. Hatred is a perfectly rational reaction to her. As for the scenario Clarkson uses, it’s a cultural refence – apparently a scene from Game of Thrones. That said, it’s not exclusive to that. Bernard Cornwell used something similar in his Saxon series.

The spokesperson described Clarkson’s comments as “dangerous”…

Bollocks. Utter, utter, bollocks.

Any reasonable person would take the view that this was typical of the hyperbole Clarkson employs when making a point. It was not violence, it was not misogyny and it was not hate speech – even though he said that he hates her. Personally, I use the word ‘despise’ to describe my feelings towards her and her ginger lapdog.

Clarkson made a catastrophic mistake, though. He apologised. You should never apologise to these people. It only encourages them to come back for more blood.

The Free Speech Union is standing by him and there is a lengthy discussion going on at their Facebook page. What’s interesting is that there are a few who are condemning him and saying that free speech comes with consequences. Sigh… Yeah, the consequences of this should, in a sane world, be no more than an angry letter to the Sun. Not demands for his sacking. You know, a proportionate response? What these discussions do is weed out the free speech advocates from the fair weather advocates. Those who think that qualifiers apply. They do not. Anyone who says ‘I believe in free speech but…’ immediately negates everything that goes before the ‘but.’

There really are some morons on those discussions and logical fallacies abound. Does no one do reason and logic anymore?

8 Comments

  1. “What’s interesting is that there are a few who are condemning him and saying that free speech comes with consequences.”

    Cuts both ways, though, doesn’t it? There are consequences to going off the deep end and calling a harmless bit of satirical hyperbole “dangerous” “hate, violence, and misogyny”. The principal ones being that you draw more attention to it and more people will tend to agree with it.

    “Does no one do reason and logic anymore?”

    It does appear to be deeply unfashionable right now.

    Merry Christmas.

  2. Personally, I use the word ‘despise’ to describe my feelings towards her and her ginger lapdog.

    Despise is too energetic for me.
    I go with ‘contemptuous’.

    Merry Christmas.

  3. I’m not sure I can get excited about this story. Clarkson occasionally does the stopped clock thing and says something that makes sense but most of the time he’s a stupid knob. Saying that you hate someone that you’ve never met is pretty stupid in my view, so stupid knob says something stupid is a bit of a non story. Of course, to the perpetually offended reading it must have felt like striking pure gold. As for Harry and Meg, complete indifference to them and their utterly pointless lives is more what I feel.

  4. Can’tbe arsed with any of it, Clarkson has always had a puerile streak in his public persona, he can be amusing but not for long, about the same time it took me to zone out from Chubby Brown’s act when i was daft enough to go see him.

    As for the Markle’s, who?
    Harry has been a right plonker, i’ve never blamed him for wanting out of the ‘firm’ and was glad for the chap when he buggered off, he should have stayed buggered off and lived the life of his choice for better or worse, but money.

    • The recent New Yorker feature on nepotism described Harry as the ultimate ‘nepo baby’ who got away – amusing, in that, far from getting away, he has taken trading on his connections to an unprecedented level.

      As for Clarkson’s piece, we really need a new Beatitude:
      “Blessed are you when men persecute you, for yours is entitled victimhood and the kingdom of Oprah.”

  5. As always, there’s the friend of a friend – a former colleague worked the front desk at a large hotel in the People’s Republic of South Yorkshire. He had more than one encounter with the schoolboy presenter and opined that he was as much a bellend in the flesh as on screen.

  6. The irony of course is that Clarkson vocalised what I suspect many millions of people actually think about the Sussexes and their conveyor belt of endless victim stories

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