Tag-arkiv: politisk ukorrekthed

Vred hvid mand

Hvis I kan lide vrede hvide mænd, der brokker sig over politisk korrekthed på en meget politisk ukorrekt måde, vil I elske ham her.

Det er Jeremy Clarkson, der normalt har et bilprogram på BBC, men her skriver i The Times.

Jeg er ikke helt sikker, men hans udgangspunkt er vist en sportkamp, som England tabte. Derfra får han hidset sig op over meget andet end sport.

Et tilbagevendende tema i hans indlæg er i hvert fald den skam, som politisk korrekthed påbyder, når det angår nationalitetsfølelse. Det vil sige, nationalitetsfølelse for en udviklet og velstående nation, som England.

Det minder mig om Eric Blair, den ene af de to Blairs inden for de seneste år, som begge var socialister, og alligevel i stand til at tænke klart og nå relativt fornuftige udenrigspolitiske mål, navnlig hvis man sammenligner med den venstrefløj, der omgav dem.

Han skrev The Lion and the Unicon i 1940, der begynder med den uforglemmelige linje:

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

Videre skrev han dette, som stadig gælder og ikke kun i England:

In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during ‘God Save the King’ than of stealing from a poor box.

Tja, Clarkson skriver ikke nær så godt, men derfor er det nu underholdende alligevel. Her er en smagsprøve, men læs selv.

I believe people need to feel like they’re part of a gang, part of a tribe. And I also believe we need to feel pride in our gang. But all we ever hear now is that we in England have nothing to be proud about. In a world of righteousness we are the child molesters and rapists.

Our soldiers were murderers. Our empire builders were thieves. Our class system was ridiculous and our industrial revolution set in motion a chain of events that, eventually, will kill every polar bear in the Arctic.

And it gets so much worse. Because if you say you are a patriot, men with beards and sandals will come round to your house in the night and daub BNP slogans on your front door. This is the only country in the world where the national flag is deemed offensive. Small wonder the England players were disinclined to sing the national anthem with any gusto. It’s in English and that’s offensive too. Unless it’s simultaneously translated into Urdu, for the deaf.