The New Neo Nazis.
Ok, I admit it. I have more than one problem with the English Defense league.
Ok, I admit it. I have more than one problem with the English Defense league.
One is that they’re a rebranding of the old
tired racist groups that pop up now and again throughout time under another moniker.
But these days, things are taking a more dangerous turn. You also know that
I’ve bleated on for some time about thinly veiled homophobia and political
issues on same sex marriage. But boy, have I been busy recently.
You probably also know that fundamentally
I’m against any sort of ‘branded’ imagining of who the gayers are -
particularly the 2.2. children / Prius driving version, which are nearly always
untrue. At least they are with the prickly scumbags I hang around with. Apart
from the marketing and money opportunities attached to this imagery, it’s also
there because the straight world needs a normalized image to mask the ‘ikky’
things we do to each other in bed. This sanitized version of what we apparently
are, has become known as Homo-normativity - the presentation of some marketing
idiots version of the new homo version of some far-off domestic life.
It’s been sold to heterosexual people for decades
and I’ve yet to meet anyone who has stemmed, emotionally intact, from this
polished, faux happy model. The family snapshots in my own head never resemble
a Littlewoods catalogue. We have to admit that we all know it’s a fallacy and
there is no 100% happy-ever-after version of domesticity in any form, gay,
straight, trans, inter, monogo,
We also have to remind ourselves that the
global, same-sex marriage debate is not just about this. Any legislation in
place at the moment is about freedom and the human right to legally chose
whichever partner you want. Of course, when it’s all finally legal THEN you
will have the ability to go Ikea mad, buy cars together and have joint
mortgages and the like. You can even invite same-sex married couples around for
dinner and exclude the sad, singleton ex-friends you no longer have anything in
common with. You’ll be able to have ‘couples’ drinks parties. Then, when you
finally have children, by whatever means, you can narrow your social scene down
to just the other same-sex children owners and rant about how anyone who has no
children has no idea how hard life
is. And when one of the couples split up and someone becomes a single parent,
you can then cross them off the social calendar because they have nothing left
to offer than their miserable daily stories of their struggle to bring up a
child single-handed. Yes, you too will have these and more choices to live a ‘normal’
life. Same sex marriage is a big ‘up’ for the global normal.
But this homoginisation (sic, lol, rofl with a DILF) has a dangerous
undercurrent.
On the global dawning of same-sex marriage
becoming legal, the EDL proudly state that they now also have gay members. They
also state that they now have black members too. Who are they against? Hang on
a minute – I was crap at subtraction at school, but it doesn’t take a
statistician to see what’s going on here…
I was unfortunate to have lived through the
rein of terror by the predecessor or the EDL – The National Front. Back then we
joined The Anti-Nazi league and had rallies and huge festivals where The Clash
sometimes played. The NF was similar to the EDL in that they were very
disorganized and fragmented and crush them we did. But at least with the
National Front, you knew where you stood. They were against everyone who was not white and
heterosexual. The unspoken requirement of a low IQ was an (obviously unwritten)
necessity. Even the police were deemed to have racist elements in those dark
times - elements that were eventually weeded out in the post Stephen Lawrence
‘institutional racism’ scandal. We’re not perfect today, but as a society we’re
in a better place than those god-awful days, and nobody can use the strong-arm
tactics of the NF (seemingly with the law on their side), anymore. This was
progression.
Nowadays, the Global uber-right has to
suppress their desire to stamp on peoples heads and approach everything in a
very different and more inclusive manner. Since the Macpherson report (Stephen
Lawrence) and the soon to be Gay marriage rulings, they now need to appeal to the
very people they once oppressed and publically tortured. They need to caress
the darker side of their own pigeon-holing of the gay and black communities to
give the impression of inclusive support of a hateful end.
Inclusivity within the gay community, after
the fight for same sex marriage, could begin to fracture as the laws are passed
and everyone settles down into their newly emancipated lives. Then, our
minority status will no longer be challenged and if we’re not careful, we’ll
become so ‘normalized’ that we’ll forget what an equality fight actually is -
and the EDL take hold and demonise the only minority left on their hit-list.
And if you don’t know who that is by now, you’re already halfway into believing
their poison rhetoric and already becoming ‘Normal’.
Click the link below for the published version:
The new neo nazis