Brendan O'Neill
It happened because you banned
super-size sodas. And smoking in parks. And offensive ideas on campus. Because
you branded people who oppose gay marriage ‘homophobic’, and people unsure
about immigration ‘racist’.
Because you treated owning a
gun and never having eaten quinoa as signifiers of fascism. Because you thought
correcting people’s attitudes was more important than finding them jobs.
Because you turned ‘white man’ from a description into an insult. Because you
used slurs like ‘denier’ and ‘dangerous’ against anyone who doesn’t share your
eco-pieties.
It happened because you banned
super-size sodas. And smoking in parks. And offensive ideas on campus. Because
you branded people who oppose gay marriage ‘homophobic’, and people unsure
about immigration ‘racist’.
Because you treated owning a
gun and never having eaten quinoa as signifiers of fascism. Because you thought
correcting people’s attitudes was more important than finding them jobs.
Because you turned ‘white man’ from a description into an insult. Because you
used slurs like ‘denier’ and ‘dangerous’ against anyone who doesn’t share your
eco-pieties.
Because you treated dissent as
hate speech and criticism of Obama as extremism. Because you talked more about
gender-neutral toilets than about home repossessions. Because you beatified
Caitlyn Jenner. Because you policed people’s language, rubbished their
parenting skills, took the piss out of their beliefs.
Because you cried when someone
mocked the Koran but laughed when they mocked the Bible. Because you said
criticising Islam is Islamophobia. Because you kept telling people, ‘You can’t
think that, you can’t say that, you can’t do that.’
Because you turned politics
from something done by and for people to something done to them, for their own
good. Because you treated people like trash. And people don’t like being
treated like trash. Trump happened because of you.
Brendan O'Neill, The Spectator, January 20, 2017
Brendan O'Neill, The Spectator, January 20, 2017
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