Gay lefty atheist British comedian and actor Stephen Fry gave the “alternate” Christmas message on UK’s Channel 4, the one created because mundane displays of religion give urban lefty types the heebie-jeebies. Of Jewish heritage, Fry decried the recent rise in antisemitism in the UK (with over 50 antisemitic acts a day in London alone) and called for peace and brotherhood among all the peoples of the earth.
Naturally the woke social justice mobs went apeshit.
Yet Stephen Fry and other well known Jews would tell you is is them and only them who don’t feel safe. What utter bollox these Zionist scum bags spout.
— John Murphy (@kerryjohn23) December 30, 2023
Stephen Fry is a racist Islamophobic Zionist terrorist.
— Fiji (@FijiFootyExpert) December 29, 2023
What is Stephen Fry doing? He’s confessed to us all that he’s not that nice fellow we always thought him to be. He’s a raging, bloodthirsty, hate-mongering, Zionist cnt. https://t.co/4K4sryvJ4x
— Sheila Scoular (@sheilascoular) December 28, 2023
Etc. Etc.
“The kind of people who’ve posed as our moral superiors for the past few decades have been exposed as real low-lives, I think, who don’t actually care about racism, don’t care about equality, certainly don’t care about Jewish people, and are only interested in using so-called anti-racism as a way of fortifying their own cultural power over society.”
Never mind that Fry used to support Palestinian causes. “On 30 April 2008, Fry signed an open letter, published in The Guardian newspaper by a number of Jewish personalities, stating their opposition to celebrating the 60th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel. Furthermore, he is a signatory member of the British Jews for Justice for Palestinians organisation, which campaigns for Palestinian rights.”
Despite being a lefty, Fry has occasionally has shown he’s willing to follow the logical of his declarations where the woke mob never seems to go, such as condemning Chinese genocide against the Uyghurs.
It doesn’t matter how closely you followed the social justice line in the past if you dare to say “Now, wait a minute” to the latest victimhood identity politics shibboleth, be it mutilating children in the name of trans ideology or supporting the child-raping murderers of Hamas.
You must support The Latest Things, or you’re the Other, and must be cast into the outer darkness.
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Fry and Cleese are two of a kind, I’m afraid. They made their careers tearing down the cultural commons that nurtured them, and are now standing amongst the flaming wreckage, shocked, shocked I tell you, that “Traditional Britain” is dead.
They’re both examples of “educated yet idiot” or “brilliant but stupid”. They had no idea what they were doing during their heyday, and now that they’ve reached the logical conclusion of where their irreverence towards British culture lead their society…? They’re still f*cking clueless about their role in it all.
Observing things like this is why I say that whatever the hell IQ measures, it ain’t “practical intelligence”. These clowns are all of a type; brilliant, facile entertainers without a single thought for the impact of what they did as clown princes of counter-culture, and where that led.
You can only pull out so many stones from underneath the scree-slope, before the whole thing comes tumbling down on your stupid ass. Fry and Cleese both spent the majority of their adult lives pulling stones out, mocking the traditions, convincing a critical mass of their fellow Britons that their traditions, values, and mores were unworthy of anything other than mockery. So, here we are: D’ya like it, John? Do you find it funny, Stephen?
Brilliant yet stupid. The epitaph for our civilization.
I agree, Kirk. I recently watched an interview with Cleese, in which he described how he and his wife had watched the coronation of Charles III and howled in laughter at the absurdity of it all. It a special sort of obtuseness that derides a venerable British tradition on the one hand, and moans about the disappearance of such British tradition on the other.
They start from the premise that they’re smarter than everyone else, and it metastasizes from there to full-blown obliviousness.
Most of these people are not really all that “smart”, in the sense that they get practical, productive results from all their intellectual horsepower. They’re mostly “surface” thinkers, dwelling on the other side of that line between thought and reality. If it exists in their mind, if they think it into existence, then… Why… It absolutely must be true. They’re creatures of pure ego, having been emboldened by their success in testing and schooling, and having had that success apparently validated by a very self-referential world that has been warped into line with their abilities and skills.
Nowhere along the way has reality ever offered them a check; they’ve never had to reevaluate their world-views or ideas. They’ve never experienced failure; life has been an unending succession of acclaim and praise from everyone around them. This is why they’ve got exactly zero ability to observe the things they’re actually doing with all their delightful japing. They’ve no sense at all of the fragility of the culture around them, the nature of the consensus and shared belief that it relies on. They simply do not grasp the damage they do with their derisive acidulous words; they don’t see the destructive power of what they do. They think everything in the cultural commons around them is concrete, undamageable. Reality is that it’s all terribly, terribly fragile.
Terry Pratchett was a hell of a good author, and much of his fiction was far deeper than you’d really think possible from a “trite fantasy author”. In one of his books, he expressed a complex of thoughts on civilization and culture that rang horribly true to me when I read it, and helped me understand a lot of what’s going on with regards to the destruction of our social fabric. If you read his “Hogfather“, there’s a thread of passages throughout the book that discuss this a lot better than I can, but what it gets down to is a social truth that I believe is at the bottom of what Cleese and Fry have done… You have to, you see, believe in the “little lies” in order to believe in the big ones… He made the point that things like Santa Claus and other such-like abstractions were training and conditioning tools such that when you worked up to the bigger things like “TRUTH” and “JUSTICE”, you were prepared and capable of belief in them, as well.
What Fry and Cleese did to England was to tear away those low-level building blocks on which those bigger things in English culture rested. People don’t believe in the “stiff upper lip” and the shared social mores any more? Well, gee… Why should they, when our obviously more intelligent and glib entertainers like Fry and Cleese have spent so much time mocking them? I mean, everyone holds them up as these genius entertainers, adulation abounding all around… They must be authoritative figures, to be listened to. So, anything they mock must be worthy of derision, and all that follows on from there? The same.
That’s how Fry and Cleese helped kill that which they now say they miss. They did it in a fit of unawareness, and they still don’t recognize that which they did, what they were a part of.
This is why I don’t think “these people”, the ones that have set themselves up as our “cultural elite” are at all truly intelligent. They never, ever look past first-order effects or bother to consider all the downstream effects of what they do.
Words and actions have consequences, even if those words and actions come from the court jester. Sometimes, a clever word or a jape can have far more inimical effect than a fist in the face.
“My Tosser of the year award has to go to this idiot.
Who turned from playing an idiot, to actually being an idiot. ”
Writes the idiot who apparently missed the fact that Stephen Fry played Jeeves, the smart one, not Bertie, the idiot
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