I had dinner last night with a very gay man. Amongst the veritable rainbow of queer subjects we discussed were faggots, camping and how we have lost the use of some words; of how these words had been hijacked by various sections of society and in doing so, making it almost forbidden to use some words in everyday speech if you do not belong to that particular group.
I, for one, intend to start reusing them. What’s queer about that?
Should we no longer call a spade a spade? Why not? It’s a spade. So call it a spade. On the subject of spades, my Grandmother frequently described my grandfather as being as black as the Ace of Spades after he returned from work at the coal face. (This was after his shower…). Coal is black, as is the Ace of Spades. It is not wrong to describe something as black when it’s black. To put this into a real life example… if there is one black man in the room and his name is John, why, when asked which man is John, does the poor politically correct person being asked reply “he’s in the corner speaking to the guy with the blue eyes. Why not just say, “John? He’s the black guy in the corner.”
Last week, a woman was banned from using the home delivery service at the Sainsbury’s store in North London. Mrs Marian Burke, a 73 year old osteoporosis suffering racist, called the store and spoke with a manager about the “lovely delivery man” who also happened to be a “coloured gentleman”.
No. I don’t see this as being racist either. Perhaps he didn’t introduce himself or perhaps she couldn’t pronounce his name. Perhaps he was a Welsh man with the Christian name (yes, that’s right, a Christian name) of Aelhaeran. Good luck with that one.
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Yes, what she was doing was using a quaintly polite adjective to describe the person to whom she was referring. Someone forgot to tell the 73 year old Mrs Burke to add the word “of” in order to make the phrase politically correct. Perhaps ‘Gentleman of Colour’ may fit today’s standards of politically correct newspeak but the Marxists have not yet succeeded in their indoctrination of the complete population. Maybe Haringey Council could offer an ‘English for Speakers of English’ course alongside their ‘English for Speakers of other Languages’ course in order to enable their pensioners, hereafter to be known as ‘Persons of Age’, to be more socially accepted within the communities in which they have lived for all of their lives. A re-education class, not unlike those offered in Cambodia circa 1976, on how to be a more tolerant and not casually racist member of a multi whatever society.
Heaven forbid that we should be more tolerant toward older members of our society that sometimes can barely remember the names of their own great grandchildren let alone the nuances of the ever changing maelstrom of offending no one and clarifying nothing.
When did this happen? When did the gradual drip of politically correct language flood this country? It used to be polite to use the word ‘coloured’. We are after all different shades. Even us Asians. And us Whites. And us Blacks. And every hue in between.
On a related note, why do newspapers and police issue descriptions of suspects or ‘Persons of Interest’ stating that they are looking for a person of ‘Asian appearance’? In their politically correct world of inoffensive drivel, instead of a concise description, they have the general public (Persons of General) looking for one person who might have an Indian, Pakistani, Chinese, Thai, Russian, Mongol, Polynesian, Micronesian even Artesian (amongst others) appearance. That’s not a very concise description, really. In fact, I would describe the description as a ‘Waste Of Time’.
So… Pick up the cudgel of the spade, embrace the queer, take the faggot by the horns and write these words large upon the greatest blackboard one can find. Reclaim the richest language in the world, free from fear of offending someone; anyone; everyone. It is not the word used, it is the intent behind it.
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