|
2/5/00
Newsnight
Pokes Fun at the Soldiers who Died.
Sometimes
I get comments that I am too quick to see
anti-male sentiments where none exist. However, look at the backdrop photograph
that Newsnight chose in order to represent the desecration of Winston
Churchill's statue by hoodlums on the 'anti-capitalist' march in London on May
Day.
This is surely an example of
Newsnight taking the piss out of Winston Churchill. The BBC is happily sticking
two fingers up at the hundreds of thousands of British soldiers who risked their
lives and their health, and lost both, on the battlefield, trying to protect the
people of this country, and those of other countries, from a heinous, Nazi
regime.
It is because of these
heroic individuals, men mostly, who set out in the dark to face what must have
been a very frightening unknown, that today we have the freedom to express our
views and our liberty. They were men from all classes and of many ages, all
determined to protect those at home from the terrifying prospects that could
materialise if their battle was lost.
But the Newsnight team mocks
the image of the man who represents these people. Rather than focus on the
appalling desecration of Winston Churchill's statue or on the disgusting
graffiti daubed on the Cenotaph, Newsnight decided to ridicule his image, and,
by implication, those who followed his orders.
Had the desecrated statue
been of a great Jewish leader who had struggled for freedom and justice would
Newsnight have presented its viewers with an image designed to poke fun at it? I
don't think so. Not at all. Newsnight would have devoted their programme to
countering 'anti-Semitism' and they would have taken the matter very seriously
indeed.
Had the desecrated statue
been of a great black leader who had struggled for freedom and justice would
Newsnight have presented its viewers with an image designed to poke fun at it? I
don't think so. Not at all. Newsnight would have devoted their programme to
countering 'racism' and they would have taken the matter very seriously indeed.
Had it been women who had mostly
been sent to war to be slaughtered on the battlefield in the struggle for
freedom and justice would Newsnight have dared to mock their female leader? I don't
think so. Not at all. Newsnight would have devoted their programme to countering
'sexism' and 'misogyny', and they would have taken the matter very seriously
indeed.
It is because Winston
Churchill was a white male, as were most of the soldiers at his command, that
Newsnight pokes fun at him, and, by implication, those who followed his orders.
The emotionally-retarded
feminists who control Newsnight cannot understand, or in any way empathise with,
the suffering of men, particularly white ones. They always try to mask it, gloss
over it, poke fun at it, hide it, deny it. It's nothing of concern to them. In
fact, it's something to be laughed at.
Well. I wasn't there on any of the
battlefields. I'm not an eighty year old veteran who still wished that his
brother, his father or his best friend had lived longer. I'm not a widow whose
first, whose greatest, whose only love still lies buried out there somewhere,
dead at the age of 23. My father did not die in the war. And I'm not physically
disabled or psychologically scarred because of any battle that I was in.
In fact, I'm not anyone who
has suffered directly as a result of that war.
But, clearly, the Newsnight team
couldn't care if I was.
|