Liberal slut whining, "I'd never heard of Laurence Fox until he started lecturing us about racism"

[Hilda and Jesse]

I had never heard of Laurence Fox until I saw him on Question
Time telling a BAME person that the criticism of Meghan wasn’t
racist. When Fox finished speaking, the show’s presenter, Fiona
Bruce, stepped in to remind us that the home secretary, Priti
Patel, had also said the criticism wasn’t racist. Whatever the
BBC is, some of its current affairs coverage is now so unwoke,
it is in a coma.

There are people in my life forever telling me I am not woke
enough – people who I gave birth to – and the new vocabulary of
triggering, microaggression and privilege-checking is a bore for
sure. But, as the writer Roxane Gay has said, no one is asking
people to apologise for their privilege. They are just asking
them, in Gay’s words, to “acknowledge how these factors helped
you move through life”. It’s manners, basically, isn’t it?

The lazy stereotype of the snowflake who can’t read a Thomas
Hardy novel without counselling is just that. As is the
stereotype of the great unwoke, unwashed, racist, sexist idiot.
This is a trap, people are complicated and the real world is not
Twitter.

But it was on Twitter that I posted a video of Fox, saying I had
never heard of him, and was told that I must be aware of this
minor thespian. But I have never seen the Morse spin-off in
which he “starred”. (It’s called Lewis, apparently.) So sue me.
On YouTube, he can be found talking about woke culture as an
“intolerant” religion where people who don’t subscribe to it are
“heretics” or the enemy. He thinks it’s gone too far. He says
this stuff to Peter Whittle, who was the deputy leader of Ukip.
So here we have Beavis and Butt-Head without the charm,
repeating the familiar white-guy refrain about identity
politics. It’s all a nightmare.

There is apparently money to be made by posh guys
ventriloquising the so-called common man – whether they’re
slagging off vegans, Muslim women or climate protesters. In the
future, everyone will bait liberals for 15 minutes. Fox is now
in with the Spiked crew of provocateurs. Alt-left? Alt-right?
Alt-dreary. There is a long line of these types, some cleverer
than others: Rod Liddle, Richard Littlejohn and Jeremy Clarkson,
with Toby Young, James Delingpole and Martin Daubney on the
subs’ bench. They present as dissenting voices, speaking truth
to the elite. In reality, they just preach to people their age.
To call this circle jerk of intolerance a culture war is to
ennoble it. Not everyone can reach the ugly heights of Jordan
Peterson.

What people are saying when they say racism doesn’t exist is
that it doesn’t exist for them. Their own identities are weirdly
defined by a form of victimhood they profess to hate. So envious
are they of oppressed people that they try to claim that they
are too, in the name of free speech.

There is now a backlash against women, against gay people,
against black people, against the tiniest bit more diversity –
and it is a concerted effort. Steve Bannon knows it, and the men
who now run Breitbart know it. It moves in high places. We have
government by Old Etonians and yet there remains a confusion
about who runs the country, who is in the cultural establishment
and who counts as a liberal.

I don’t want to give much time to Fox, but I will get personal
as he has made a podcast with Delingpole, who once had to
apologise for using repugnant, sexually violent language against
me. Why did he do it? Because I had criticised Michael Gove’s
education polices, and at that point one Dominic Cummings was
Gove’s special adviser, so they all leapt to Young’s defence
when he attacked me, too.

These people are the establishment. White privilege and casual
sexism is the sea they tend to swim in. Attention-seeking haters
such as Katie Hopkins and strangely bitter successes such as
Piers Morgan help spawn these posh understudies.

Their side has won, so why are they such losers? Why are their
egos so fragile? And why are they so easily rattled if they are
only saying what ordinary people think, as they like to suggest?

For that is the shtick, when really what they are doing is
insidious. They exist to make those in power appear reasonable
as they tear up the social contract.

Fox is but a desperate fool who doesn’t even see his part in the
bigger game he plays. Let us not speak of him again. He is not
worth even the notoriety.

Suzanne Moore is a Ex-Guardian columnist. A progressive liberal
whore who hates men and feels she is better than you.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/commentisfree/2020/jan/20/id-
never-heard-of-laurence-fox-until-he-started-lecturing-us-about-
racism