“Did you know you have to be a dark-skinned, transgendered Muslim in order to voice an opinion publicly these days? Nor did I, but according to some on the far Left, or “Twitter” as it’s otherwise known, that seems to be the minimum requisite for expressing a view in 2016.”
Hoooo boy. And that’s the opening sentence. The simmering temperature of the take did naught but climb as her diatribe wore on (annotated and responded to where possible because the prickle in the back of my head won’t allow me to not).
“Don’t agree chapter and verse with our new Gold Logie winner Waleed Aly’s grandstanding on The Project?
Racist!”
Well, I mean. Sure. But, it’s not really something that can be agreed or disagreed upon though, is it. It’s a popular vote. It just is.
“Think the fact SBS World News’ weekend host-turned-cult heroine Lee Lin Chin pulls in less than 150,000 capital city viewers (Saturday night’s episode was ranked 66th in the most-watched programs, behind Scared Shrekless on 9Go!) makes her nomination for the biggest gong somewhat absurd?
Racist and sexist!”
Again, it’s a popularity contest? And basing it just on ratings – an archaic form of audience viewership that’s simply not designed to measure the popularity of individual personalities – shows a shocking lack of grasp for exactly how media is delivered and consumed in 2016.
“Maybe you believe fundamentalist Islam may have, I don’t know, a little something to do with Islamic terror?
Islamophobe!”
Only when you paint all Islamic religion with a broad brush. Ya know, much in the same way that you wouldn’t be too chuffed if people started haranguing all Catholicism the next time some nutjob in the US goes nuts “in the name of God.”
“Troubled by the growing movement encouraging gender-confused children to undergo mutilation in order to find peace with themselves?
Transphobe!”
Expressing trepidation and prejudice against a subset of people because you (VERY CLEARLY) don’t have a full understanding of their experience or even how basic gender imbalances and biology work? Well, yeah. That makes you someone who is fundamentally frightened by transgender people. A transphobe. And a big one at that.
