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I like the fact they cover news that is not always politically correct.
I tire of the pc police at times.
The Mail covers horseshit - the kind of horseshit that peabrained ultra-righties want to see. That's all it has ever done. If it can't find any of the required horseshit, it makes it up.
I've got to say, re that subject of 'political correctness': it's suddenly all been turned upside down. Nowadays, we're exhorted by both Right and Left never to call someone who is a thick, racist, ultra right wing cretin a 'thick, racist, ultra right wing cretin'. We're instead asked to 'engage' with the sorts of arses who have bought wholesale into the most ludicrous, irrational and clearly prejudiced bollocks the world has to offer, and treat such views 'with respect'.
But, so far, I've not found anyone who is able to explain how it could plausibly be treated with respect. At the same time, we're exhorted to 'tell it like it is' and be 'down to earth' and 'straight shootin'' and stuff - just like the Holy St Donald. Eh? So what do we do? If people are talking crap - do we get all furrow-browed and understanding with them, all sensitive language to the fore - or do we say, 'Look you nasty-minded moron, you don't know anything and are talking crap'?
Exactly.
It's about time that we stood up for what we believe in instead of wringing our hands and being understanding. Why should I have respect for the views of people who believe in hatred and division, on the basis that they are people too so we have to listen to them patiently?
If "tell it how it is" means be as offensive as you want and make law abiding fellow citizens fear for just living and working peacefully as part of their communities, I'll have no part of it.
People pussy-footed around this stuff for so long in the UK because the cosseted social and intellectual elite (often in London) thought it was better not to challenge "ordinary" people who had certain views because you might encourage them. What a load of elitist, intellectual, fucked-up thinking. Other people told us the real problem was that people felt they couldn't express themselves because of a pc bias. Well I never saw anyone failing to their express views about minorities, foreigners, liberals, gays (the list goes on) when given half an opportunity. I've just got to question where these people live and who they mix with if they ever thought that pc stopped anyone expressing themselves. Sure the law stopped them calling their colleagues "filthy Pakis" at work but that never stopped them in the pub or even in my own house, when people understood perfectly well my feelings on such subjects.
So if it's good enough for the "Holy St Donald" his smarmy sidekick I'm just an ordinary rich guy Nigel (sorry Abassador) Farage to shoot from the hip and have unquestioning adulation heaped upon them, it's good enough for the rest of us who find them and their ideas offensive.
And for all the people, who following the US election and the Brexit vote here, told their fellow citizens from minority groups that they could say and do what they liked now or told people that their time was numbered or to get out of the country because we had an election to say we could, I'm not staying silent.
And when anyone says to me these days that I have to be careful now because of the Brexit vote, what about the millions of people made to feel less than welcome in their own communities? It's the democratic will of the people. Yeah and you have to keep ramming that down everyone's throats every five minutes because the vote was an absolute knife-edge.
No, everyone is supported Trump or Brexit is not a thick, racist, ultra right wing cretin, but I am heartily sick of the excuses so many of their supporters make for the sizeable minority of people who are.
It's about we stop making excuses for that very vocal minority and call them out for who they are so that we can get our countries back.
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