Usurping my opinion

Yeah Unison, I’m looking at you.

I’m also looking at the councillors who say “I think I speak for everyone” as well as every noisy busybody who feels they need to inflict their outrage on the general public, justifying their tyranny by assuming I and thousands of others agree with them.

In general, no, I wasn’t offended by Clarkson’s comments. Thats what Jeremy Clarkson does, he voices overblown right wing opinions which are intended to provoke controversy. Sure enough, it emerges a couple of days later that the joke was scripted and BBC producers had cleared it.

No, I don’t think Christmas lights in November make everything look jolly. I think they rob the Christmas of its festivity and anticipation, making me dread the entire festive season, because of its enforced goodwill. Come on guys, wake up. Two months of anticipation is 1/6th of my life taken up by fucked up Christmas decorations and false smiles.

We all know Christmas is in December, leave the decorations in their boxes until at least the 10th of December. Two weeks is enough, surely?

There is lots more.

While I completely understand and despise racism and homophobia, I dont believe racists and homophobes who voice their opinions should be arrested.

Why not?

Well for a start, that old saying “Sticks and stones will break my bones but words will never hurt me” actually has some truth to it.

If racists and homophobes go so far as to assault the objects of their ire, or incite people to assault them, then of course, may the unrelenting force of the law be called down upon them.

But personally – and I’m not speaking for anyone else here – I dont really care what colour a person is, or what they do with their genitals.

Pigmentation really is skin deep, except for certain rare blood diseases (Sickle cell anemia, if you were wondering).

As for what people do with their genitals, so long as they do it with consenting adults, whose business is it really?

Enjoy life, really.

More importantly though, I believe the key to defeating these shortsighted and I believe erroneous views lies in education.

If people aren’t allowed to air their negative opinions, how in the hell can they be remonstrated with? Arresting someone for voicing their opinion, regardless of what their opinion is, sounds a lot like thought police to me.

What I’m asking for here is a bit of common sense please. I’m probably not going to get it, I’ll just sit here despairing at the nature of our society to allow itself to be led around by the noisy minorities. The essence of this wonderful, mixed up, multicultural western civilisation will be diluted to beige by these humourless people who fail to discern a joke from an opinion and an opinion from a scientific fact.

My opinion is my opinion. Don’t you dare try to force your opinion on to me, or assume you speak for me. You don’t.

*Incidentally, if you are homosexual, please dont keep telling me. I’m not, and I dont care if you are. Really. Just be satisfied in yourself. Congratulations and all that, I can appreciate how hard it must have been to come out and tell people. Really though, once you have established the gayness, we are pretty well all on the same page. Refer to your partner as your wife/husband, thats all good, thats what people do. Just don’t keep on about it.

You didn’t have a gay marriage (unless you are using “gay” in its classical sense) you had a marriage. A pedant would say you formed a civil partnership, whatever. The heart and soul of what you did is the same, regardless of whether you are bisexual, heterosexual, homosexual, transexual or just curious.