Campus lefties love shouting ‘BIGOT’ at people they disagree with. Anyone who has ever been rounded on by mobs of meat-dodging students hoarsely barking ‘hate speaker!’ because you once humbly suggested men should stay out of women’s bathrooms will know how irritating and comical such activism can be. Now, though, we have the perfect comeback for these silver-spoon irritants: ‘Wait, didn’t you vote for the Green party?’
I’m happy to take flak from all sorts of people. It comes with the territory of being an opinion writer. But I’ll tell you what I won’t take – lectures about bigotry from people who voted for a party that contains within its ranks lowlifes who call Jews ‘cockroaches’ and trans activists who would gleefully lay waste to women’s rights by throwing open their every space to fellas who claim to be female. If you’re going to call me a ‘bigot’, you better make damn sure you’re not a cheerleader for such rank, reactionary politics.
These students voted for a party that is riddled with the world’s oldest racism
I am as excited as the next normal person to read that the Green party might not have done as well as they expected in the local elections. Aside from their new mayor of Hackney with her pink fringe and a few other leafy areas where people wear keffiyehs and have smash burgers delivered by illegal immigrants, the Greens haven’t broken through. So much for Zack Polanski’s claim to be a nicer, more righteous version of Nigel Farage, about to storm the citadels of power on a populist wave of lefty anger.
Where they have done well, though, is in student areas. Makes sense – as Ross Clark says, the party’s tub-thumping on climate change, Palestine and those dastardly billionaires is most likely to appeal to 18- to 24-year-olds. We all remember being that age, full of hormones and lager and self-righteousness, loving nothing more than telling old people that they’ve screwed up the planet. Polanski’s platitudinous moralising on greedy rich people and genocidal Israel is made for such young, unformed minds.
Yet the Green wave – or Green trickle – through uni towns raises a curious question: what does it mean to be ‘progressive’ these days? That’s no doubt how those green students with blue hair think of themselves: as progressive warriors for a fairer world. Yet they voted for a party that is riddled with the world’s oldest racism. And which is content to cosy up to Islamist reactionaries who are far from fans of the gays. And whose leader thinks women can have a penis, which is the most anti-Enlightenment claptrap imaginable. That’s progressive? Since when?
If Farage were to darken the door of their universities, they would be out in force demanding that ‘the racist’ be No Platformed. Yet they gave their ballot to a party that stood candidates who hurled Nazi-level insults at Jews. Some even cheered the largest mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust (7 October). Help me make sense of this: it’s a cancellable offence to say immigration is out of control but it’s fine to be in a party where scores of people are suspected of spouting the most poisonous Jew hatred?
I’m old enough to remember when a key part of being a progressive was support for women’s rights and gay rights. Yet it is Green party policy to fully enforce that bourgeois diktat ‘Trans women are women’, which would mean biological males enjoying free rein in women’s spaces. Let’s boil it down: men who identify as women would be at liberty to undress in front of women and girls. We used to call that flashing – now we must call it trans rights. I look forward to being called a right-wing lunatic by mobs of students who support such flagrant misogyny.
As for gay rights – good luck upholding those in a party that brings together affluent socialists and cranky Islamists. How long before the Islamo-wing of the Green party asserts itself over the gender-fluid wing? It will certainly be interesting to be defamed as a ‘homophobe’ by campus windbags who support a party that gets into bed with Quranic fruitcakes and some of whose members have even made excuses for Hamas. I might think Pride Month is a bit much but at least I’ve never soft-pedalled an army of anti-Semites that would happily throw homosexuals off a roof.
I know, the campus agitators won’t be backing down. Self-awareness has never been their strong suit. But the Green dribble in student towns at least gives the rest of us a little moral ammo for the next time we visit a university. Laughter – and a lot of it – will be the best reply to people who shout ‘bigot’ in one breath and then rage against women’s rights and Jewish dignity in the next. We see you.
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