It's hardly the best optics: a group of mostly white football
fans booing a group of kneeling football players, many of them black, football
players like Marcus Rashford MBE, a hero by many accounts due to his voluntary
community work. Players who, together with their manager Gareth Southgate so adamantly
expressed that their kneeling is not a political gesture, but rather a gesture intending
to oppose racism in all its forms. Southgate did so eloquently in a letter
addressed to England fans, fondly bringing to mind the values bestilled in him
by his grandfather. Many players, after all, have been the victims of online racist abuse.
There’s just one problem with this particular narrative, and
the problem is this: Black Lives Matter is a political movement whose well-publicised
aims include defunding of the police and the destruction of the capitalistic
state (among other lesser matters like defunding science and opposing meritocracy
and objectivism). Kneeling, although not birthed directly from BLM’s hoary
vagina, was -after Kaepernick’s prolonged 5 minutes of fame – hurriedly rushed
into their warm and loving embrace, fostered by them, and now deployed, along with
the raised fist, as a protest symbol on marches and rallies. Indeed, some BLM
supporters are so enthusiastic about kneeling that they invited (hmm no,
encouraged, well actually, insisted, in fact, more like intimidated) white
pedestrians to kneel and apologise for their original sin of whiteness.
Kneeling like other gestures over the past year is a political
message. These political messages include the virtual banners displayed by Sky
Sports during their live football matches, the physical BLM banners sprawled
across the terraces, and the players wearing ‘BLACK LIVES MATTER’ on their
shirts. These are political symbols supported by a political movement helped by
host institutions who have been captured by the movement like a zombie plague
and intimidated its opponents into silence. This exact species of silence that
CRT’s opponents have fallen into has a name, given to it by social scientists, a
‘spiral of silence'. This is the type of silence whereby a minority group can
control the narrative of a larger group, as the smaller group’s narrative
spreads and becomes dominant, the larger group keeps schtum through fear of
isolation, social castigation, or cancellation. Throw in a touch of intimidation,
bullying and harassment, and the context of centuries of actual race-based oppression,
and you have the rancid cake baked in our current political oven.
CRT’s zombie plague spread so quickly through our institutions,
in part through the use of a cunning argument called the 'motte-and-bailey' fallacy. This
is where an argument or idea is advanced which has two different positions
existing simultaneously, side-by-side. The ‘motte’ is the easily defendable position,
that black lives matter (lower case), something accepted by almost all reasonable
members of the genus Homo Sapiens Sapiens. The ‘bailey’ is the extreme
position, Black Lives Matter (uppercase), the political movement. The political
movement contains a panoply of ghoulish civilisation-ending disinnovations which
if allowed to continue to infect all institutions unopposed, could very well be
the end of Western liberal democracy, and which, worrying, will appear to be in
the throes of. The motte argument argued by Southgate, the players, ESPN and
the media class is that “the players are only kneeling due to personal
preference.” This was echoed by the F.A.’s ‘Equity & Inclusion Director,’ necessarily
a woman of colour, whose job itself is part of that spread and whose function
is to further it. The bailey argument contains all of the disinnovations being
implemented inside our schools, universities and institutions.
Even comedy is unfunny now due to wokeism, and that’s according
to Chris Rock, someone who knows a thing or two about making the funnies. It’s
allowed universities like Yale where professors now talk openly about fantasies
of killing white people, companies like Lockheed Martin, the U.S.A.’s largest
defence contractor, who send their white employees on missions to ‘deconstruct
their white male privilege,’ and facilitated the New York Times opinion editor
being fired because he wanted to carry a range of political opinion rather than
single woke narratives. Oxford University recently voted to remove a portrait
of Queen Elizabeth, Bristolians decided it would be fun to topple a statue of the
philanthropist Edward Colston and some Londoners decided to defile Winston Churchill’s
statue ‘Churchill was racist’ graffiti. Even the National Trust now considers
its primary mission to commission reports to let the public know about its building’s
colonial past, rather than its remit to protect Britain’s historic buildings.
So we boo not because we want the players to feel bad, nor because we are a bunch of uneducated, racist hooligans, but because we love our country. We love its history, being built as it has on the soldiers of giants, and on the broken backs of unforgotten soldiers – men of Southgate’s grandfather’s generation - who gave their lives to uphold the ideals of Western liberal democracy, equality for all, and a colour-blind society that cares not about the colour of your skin, but about the content of your character. We boo because we want to stand up for science, stand up for merit, stand up for empiricism and objectivism. We stand up for the principles which have bestowed on us all of the invention and innovation that comfort our lives in the 21st century, including the freedom to discuss toxic ideas such as CRT.
So, the
next time the England players take the knee, don’t allow the media
class to seduce you into silence with their erroneous ‘motte’ offering. They’re
baking you a cake which they’ve pissed in; don’t take a slice. However well-worded
Southgate’s letter, it’s still just a piss-take, because it’s a piss-cake. It
is our moral duty and obligation to not eat cakes full of piss, just as its out
moral duty and obligation to fill our lungs with air and with as much vociferous
fortitude as our lung capacity can afford, boo as loudly as humanly possible,
and oppose this evil woke ideology starting on the football pitch. So come on, for Queen and country, after 3; 1-2-3... boooooooooooooooo!
