On 10/7/06, Jennifer Compton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> just iot back to poetryetc after 6 months away
> how has gillian mckeith offended?
>
By existing. Although her existence were in itself innocuous, or at
worst mildly nocuous. By being a symptom, then, of a general
condescension, buttressed by bogus credentials and with sinister
overtones.
Jimmy Carr, on the telly the other night: "We need a little chlorine
in the gene pool". Jonathon Ross, that same evening: "Maybe we ought
to put something in the water to stop some people from reproducing.
*cough* Council estates! *cough*".
This plus a ridiculous, cried-up secular-democratic fervour against
Muslims. As if there were more than a handful of genuine secular
democrats to be found anywhere between Land's End and John O'Groats.
As if even the worst of the Muslims were any worse than the worst of
the Anglicans.
We seem to be on a mission to rival the Victorians for smug, canting
hypocrisy. Pity we can't also rival them for industry, social vigour
or scientific discovery.
Dominic
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