A c*** or a knobhead?
Personally I favour "knobhead", because 'nazi knobhead' has a nice ring to it. "Naznob". Could be a mob name. "Noddy Naznob's dumb adventures abroad". I feel a children's book coming.
Germaine Greer, for instance, would disagree, as she prefers the other word, but she sounds like a bit of a c*** herself. Like, one who doesn't report her own rape.
If I wanted to ask a question about that in the style of Noddy, I totally could. Shall I? Okay, here goes: "Was the rapist Caucasian?"
See folks? It's dead easy to ask uncomfortable questions. There's really nothing to it. And it's not a bad thing per se. The thing is, people ask questions and question things with different motivations in mind. It's not
always the Noble Quest for Truth that prompts peepl.
To understand why a woman casually dismisses her own rape like Germaine does, I try to determine why she doesn't see it as serious. I surmise that it must have had an element of familiarity to it for her not to see it as an unbearable alien aggression. Therefore, as she is white and Australian, my theory is that he was a white Australian male, possibly already present in her environment, and not an aboriginal man with a wooden leg.
My question might first sound as if I'm trying to establish whether she's racist, but it's not my main motivation. It could be a secondary one if I gave a flying f@ck about Germaine, but I don't. My motivation was to understand why a supposed feminist wouldn't report a rape.
Now. What could possibly be the motivations of a youtuber apparently making videos about the Holocaust? Well, I don't know, but I have no interest in finding out. That's because a) I already know all I need to know about the Holocaust and also (and here it's useful to rely on past experience), b) he looks like a total wanker who makes youtube videos in his grandma's basement
(it's getting crowded down there). Never a promising sign.
Don't get me wrong, I have a lot of time for timewasters. I still watch Russell from time to time. Recently he's taken to making these absolutely pointless short vids: he asks a big question and doesn't answer it at all. What a tease. I saw one in which he said
the solution to narcissism, well, could it be love? He took an absolute beating in the comments, people couldn't believe that he didn't know what Narcissistic Personality Disorder was. After all, he interviewed a living one, sat on a sofa right next to it, even. But of course Russ doesn't read the feedback on his vids, he's not here to learn, he's here to say look at me! and as long as he keeps his looks, I don't mind. I'm happy to watch him for a whole hour trying to fathom why he's rude to a woman he invited to talk about spirits and stuff when he's perfectly civil to a Dutch bloke who talks nonsense about how cold showers will make you live longer. Why was that Russ? Mmm? Why you rude to the little lady? Mmm?
So yeah, you can waste my time if you're sexy. But that guy there? He actually looks like one of my ex-housemates. Who looked far too silly, and took himself far too seriously. A deadly combination that prevents anyone from ever wanting to get to know you, I find. And who does he think he is to not wear a shirt? Come back when you've grown Russell's nipples, you twat!
So. Is this what this is about? Has Morrissey found
the new Russell Brand, only,
one more suited to expressing his own views?
Wow, hats off. Dead ringer.
See, we do get Morrissey's sense of humour. It's all a joke. He is a joke. (Still trying to get the For Britain gag though. Guess I didn't live in England long enough to get that one, eh...)
So, stay sensitive and open, but trust your instincts. You don't have to pay attention to anything Morrissey mentions if your gut says it would be pointless or even wrong to. Also: you know what you know. If you don't, you're like a young person living in China who's never heard of Tian an men, because it's forbidden to talk about it, and who learns about it from foreigners.
I guess Morrissey's problem (apart from the obvious other ones) is that he's lived a very sheltered life. Looks like he's always lived miles from a front line.
He's never seen hundreds of muslims. Of course he's going to bitch about them all. He's never had Syrian men living next door. Of course he's going to conveniently mention a teen murdered by one (even though she was clearly of subspecies origin...). His family didn't have to live with nazi soldiers (literally). Of course he would find that
fascinating...(newsflash: apparently, it's not all it's cracked up to be.)
Well. We all have a different history.
I can't help feeling that Morrissey is just trying to make his life more exciting than it actually is. Create a little chaos where there's absolutely none. That's the fate of a sheltered star. If you're an ordinary person who knows what the real world is, you don't watch videos in which guys born yesterday explain how it all works. You don't argue for hours on the net with a person you've never seen. That's not what real people do.
Especially as the real planet out there is dying, and the way of life most of us here enjoy is about to end.
Oh, and...As for the yes-men saying anything, nairng, well, all they're likely to say is "Maz, the mini bar is empty."
We all live very different lives.