With 1.7 million followers on Tik Tok he was a celebratory rather than an obscurity. For me, however, not being one of the Tik Tok community I don't recall ever being aware of his existence. In enabling public access to voluminous quantities of information, the rise of social media platforms also leaves users spoiled for choice, with lots on the menu never making it to the cerebral palate.
Noone suspended his popular Tik Tok account in response to a pile on from those for whom a different idea is like leprosy. His misfortune was to offend the sensibilities of those who think everybody should think they way they think. He struck a fashist nerve and received a full blast from a two barrel snot gun as the pile-on came out of noses, mouths and other orifices, which helps explain why much of it was sewage. The fashists are those woke evangelicals who follow the fashion, the soup of the day whatever it might be and force feed it down the throats of everybody else until they move onto the next fad. Much like the trendy lefties with their plastic 'comrade' talk and Che berets, their commitment to fashion-following doesn’t quite extend to the gates of the prison, opting to leave it to others to take on that onerous burden. Trendy Wendy and Trendy Brendy need to remain free to catch the next fad blowing in the wind, so that they may decide who shall be cancelled and determine what thoughts are permissible.
Noone suspended his popular Tik Tok account in response to a pile on from those for whom a different idea is like leprosy. His misfortune was to offend the sensibilities of those who think everybody should think they way they think. He struck a fashist nerve and received a full blast from a two barrel snot gun as the pile-on came out of noses, mouths and other orifices, which helps explain why much of it was sewage. The fashists are those woke evangelicals who follow the fashion, the soup of the day whatever it might be and force feed it down the throats of everybody else until they move onto the next fad. Much like the trendy lefties with their plastic 'comrade' talk and Che berets, their commitment to fashion-following doesn’t quite extend to the gates of the prison, opting to leave it to others to take on that onerous burden. Trendy Wendy and Trendy Brendy need to remain free to catch the next fad blowing in the wind, so that they may decide who shall be cancelled and determine what thoughts are permissible.
For the type, politics is a fashion rather than an enduring vocation, something that is not going to bring the whiff of harm to their door nor themselves to the door of a jail cell. They are always inhaling the fumes of revolution while forever deflecting its risk and costs. Despite sharing some similar traits, such as treating a differing opinion as anathema, they are not fascist, merely fashist: simply wearing the brand, espousing identity politics that ostensibly champion oppressed identities except those identities they seek to oppress - such as those who identify with a different idea.
Woke evangelicals often find the provenance for their wokeism in the 1938 plea from the singer Leadbelly to stay woke. Leadbelly was calling on people to remain vigilant and not doze off when the enemy is scoping the gates of social justice in search of a breach point. As a comparable forerunner to the Paulo Freire concept of conscientization, there is not much wrong with that given Leadbelly was flagging up the miscarriage of justice in the case of the Scotsboro Boys, nine young black men wrongly accused of raping two white women. A liberating awakening to injustice for which admiration should not be given grudgingly. Still, it seems the woke evangelicals, as distinct from the authentic social justice activists, are more influenced by another variant of woke - that which originated in 16th Century Calvinist Geneva and which relied on cancel culture to suppress difference. It should not go unnoticed that those recovering from a bad woke experience have received religious trauma counselling.
Garron Noone despite his protestations was not merely discussing what Conor McGregor had been spouting in the US. He was echoing some of McGregor's rubbish sentiments, assigning to them a truth status that is simply bogus. Even when he returned from a Siberian silence, he stood over his original utterances. He can hardly claim to be blameless nor complain when his views are challenged. But despite the claims from the woke evangelicals that Noone was not abused but simply met push back, there was more than that. He was labeled a fascist and racist for little more than expressing his opinion. Even a cursory glance at his comments in the original video show that he was hitting out against racism, not endorsing it. He sought to warn that the consequences of government ignoring authentic concerns around immigration would be to push people towards racism and extremism. He pointed to the elephant in the room, stating that immigration is a problem, not claiming that he was opposed it.
Garron Noone is to be applauded for refusing to give into the woke evangelicals and their endless quest to find heretics to burn. If there is anything in political discourse in need of cancelling, it is cancel culture.
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I've been following him for a while and find his video's good craic. I saw the clip that sent the woke wankeratti into a spin and it was tame. Literally just made an observation and one he is perfectly entitled to do. It's becoming quite obvious who the real fascists' are.
ReplyDeleteThe far right love the woketards - they make the job of fascism so much easier.
DeleteI don't like Noone's brand of humour very much (jokes about emersion heaters and centra chicken rolls?) but he does seem like a good egg on the whole.
ReplyDeleteHis comments were not particularly egregious. People may disagree if they wish to do so but the whole pitchfork mob hunting heretics frenzy that people join in with is absolutely contemptible. The whole woke stuff is basically a civic religion a this point.
That's just it chungus, he is a good egg yet once he voices an opinion however tame, if it is perceived as somehow a slight against the woke then he's instantly vilified.
DeleteJake O'Kane made a video in support of him and got a ton of flack as well.
ReplyDeleteAs a Leftist, I am ashamed of what Left politics has become. I want nothing more to do with it. I stand with common sense and bread and butter socialism. Noone had a balanced opinion, and moreover one that was worth more than the vitriolic and abusive reaction he received. Truth be told I am nothing like the 'New' Left, these people are alien to me.
ReplyDeleteGowain - how would you characterise the New Left?
DeleteWoke certainly isn't Left. That is just an echo chamber of sound bites and virtue signalling.
The Left should be emancipatory yet here we have a hatred of difference which results in an authoritarian (and by extension anti-emancipatory) attempt to intimidate and impose silence. Noone whatever his shortcomings contributed more to public understanding than those who sought to silence him.
That is a good question. I agree the left should be emancipatory and is, but it seems to me such principals have been lost in a hall of smoke and mirrors. The genuine and emancipatory left still exists but try explaining that to John or Mary down the road who believe the left is something entirely different.
ReplyDeleteIn this regard the New Left is a term I coined a while back in an effort to explain this disconnect and to distance myself from mainstream left of centre views which seem to be based solely around political correctness, cancel culture and identity politics, while also embracing or turning a blind eye to corporatism and neo liberalism. It seems to be a cultural revolution of sorts and one whereby any opinion that deviates from what is in trend has to be stamped out and sent to the proverbial Gulag. Most people if not everyone is on this 'New Left' now, at least in the south of Ireland anyway, it is the safe position to be in and is in fashion; but there is no substance to it and it has been hammered into the population whether it be via the radio, television or other means. It is very convenient for the government, big business and the ruling classes, yet the same old problems exist whether it be poverty, exploitation, a lack of housing, health care and whatever else. Maybe my analysis is incorrect and purely assumptive but that is how I see it anyway.
Gowain - 'political correctness, cancel culture and identity politics' is what defines the Woke movement. The third one I am ok with as there is scope within a Marxist pluralism for that. It just becomes counterproductive when it is elevated to the core Left tenet, when it should be the economy. Does a movement like say Black Lives Matter have anything to say about the black lives that don't matter to those rich black exploiters who screw those at the lower stratum of the black community into penury and misery? I have no religious belief and that means I can be identified as an atheist but for me to identify as an atheist above all else places me in a community with Douglas Murray. I am fine with people identifying as atheist or trans or Gay or whatever but it is not what being Left means.
ReplyDeleteIf your analysis is incorrect then both of us are wrong!