Qu'on me donne six lignes écrites de la main du plus honnête homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre.
At the moment we are in a space where being straight and white is enough for be to be called a list of 'isms'. And for no other reason. We have gender politics that takes anyone that doesn't take their insane logic as holy writ deemed to be out of that rhyme 'What are little boys made of ?'.
I think Freedom of Speech is something way too important to cede to the rightwing. I think Trump is a downright nasty bit of work, but I don't for one instant think the arguments from the Left about those that voted for him are in fact racist. Indeed the sheer lack of sane analysis from the Dems on why Clinton lost coupled with the pointless screechy righteousness is why Trump has gotten away with so darn much. HOW can it be that we have a situation where it's the Reps saying ohh hold on there, that's too far.
I have that French phrase attributed to Cardinal Richelieu under my username on twitter. I doubt many bother to translate it, but perhaps a few do. I put it on to highlight my profound concern about what's going on in the West.
It could be written by any first minister of that era for he was a generation before Oliver Cromwell and more or less a fellow traveller with Elizabeth I, James VI&I and Charles I. And could be written by any first minister until the middle of the 19th century in western Europe. In Russia far later.
We are now back in that space where thoughts, opinions and speech is deemed anathema and we have laws in place to protect against offence. The weird Google Space of no nipples has become Law.
