by K Rye
With ‘Lockdown’ now hopefully drawing to a close, I have been reflecting on what I have learned about human nature during these laborious long lockdown months.
Like most of you, I have seen two sides: the willingness of people to help others, the inventiveness in creating new ways to communicate, learn a new skill and of course the fun side, like amazing new ways to disguise bad home haircuts or cultivate an image you may not be permitted to display in the office.
However, I came to the conclusion that the bad side was positively frightening. The spare time people have had to hang around in the dark corners of social media, combined with the events of the last few weekends of unmitigated hell on the streets of our cities, have sped up the Communist-style “cancel culture” we are now seeing being dispensed by the increasingly hysterical mainstream media news channels, who continue to stir up trouble, as if it hasn’t been a crap enough year already.
The very worst of this being the emerging orthodoxies of the groupthink lynch-mob and death by Twitter Taliban.
However, all is not lost. On the up-side, a myriad of podcast and alternative news channels, including, of course Unity News Network, are popping up like mushrooms to fill the void left by mainstream media, who have now abandoned all pretence of responsible journalism and unbiased reporting. Interestingly, many of these newbies seem to be run by people who were previously left-leaning or even Marxist, and who have now distanced themselves from the vagaries of “doublethink” and “prolefeed”.
The Spectator is now seeing its highest sales since its inception in March 1711, and many high-profile writers like Toby Young, Brendan O’Neill and Douglas Murray are appearing weekly as guests on various other channels, such as Triggernometry, Spiked Online and The New Culture Forum and the cutely-named Delingpod – featuring popular journalist James Delingpole. I rely on Unity News Network and other non-woke news channels for my daily news and regularly update my own social media with links to all those I rely on for accurate information, rather than the usual diet of dire diatribe, misleading headlines and hyped up hyperbole.
To satisfy my curiosity with regard to the rest of the English-speaking world, I have also watched Conversations With John Anderson, former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, and American political commentator Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report.
We now see Talk Radio’s four-year-long presence increasingly beginning to eat into the audiences of BBC Radio stations and LBC, whose coverage is tainted by the presence of the ultra-biased and perpetually patronising James O’Brien, whose constant put-downs of those who disagree with his myopic mumblings, are now so inevitable as to be downright boring. Meanwhile, over on Talk Radio, Mike Graham’s regular Monday interviews with Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens have proved very popular.
All of this is extremely heartening and now, with a massive online campaign to tackle the BBC’s gross treatment of the over 75s, via the impending return of the TV licence fee that they abolished in November 2000 – and their extreme left political bias – people are desperate for broadcasting outlets they can relate to, sick to the back teeth of fake news, propaganda and biased broadcasters.
The best aspects of the lockdown, especially for those for whom the workplace is a veritable minefield of wrongspeak tripwires, is that there is now an organisation called the Free Speech Union whose founder is Spectator associate editor Toby Young. This is a brand new outfit for people who fear recriminations from their employers for such crimes as “oldthink” or failing to use the correct “gender pronouns”. Membership will bring you protection from the “digital outrage mob”. If you have been “no-platformed” or “cancelled”, they will help you take action and will even crowdfund any ensuing legal case.
A similar outfit is Fair Cop …this was started by an ex-policeman called Harry Miller (AKA Harry the Owl) who posted some fairly innocuous poetry lyrics referencing the trans movement, then received a visit from the police to “check his thinking”. Yes, seriously! He subsequently took the cops to the High Court, with some success. Fair Cop was set up to assist victims of “Big Brother” (Orwell’s version, not the TV programme), who have found themselves on the receiving end of the “wrongthink” mob.
So all in all, there is some hope that common sense is at last prevailing from the pustulating pit of political correctness in which we have found ourselves increasingly mired in recent years – and certainly the crackpottery of craziness of the last few weeks.
And talking of common sense, you can now join the Campaign for Common Sense which “exists to bring together those who want to have a grown-up discussion and debate”. The intention of this group is to get dialogue going about the things we are not allowed to talk about in case it upsets the self-appointed offence-takers and crimethink commandants.
If you have found yourself being silenced or made to feel that the “Thinkpol” are about to swoop and drag you off for questioning, or you just think you have stumbled into a parallel universe inhabited by mind control robots, here are some useful websites.
https://www.faircop.org.uk/about/
https://campaigncommonsense.com/
Take heart; you are not alone! The Wokeist Moronocracy has gone too far – and now we’re coming for you would-be assassins of our liberty! We don’t want your Trojan Horse Communism – and neither would you if you were staring it in the face. Be careful what you wish for; you might just get it – but not on our watch!
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