While I’m on the subject of real racism, this is a perfect time to bring up again the matter of “rhetorical racism”: the kind of racism some ascribe to those who have the nerve to disagree with them or merely to offend their refined aesthetics. Working class people who put England flags on their cars, for example, are rhetorically racist. My charming neighbour Wardy, the forensic Mr Ablution, and witty Pollard have already skewered this one.
Remember the newsagents with the turd problem? Today the shop’s proprietor, a man who comprehensively fails the Tebbit Cricket Test, is mostly wearing an extra-large T-shirt with an enormous cross of St George plastered over it.
And, being an understated metrosexual kinda guy, I will be holding up my corduroys this afternoon with a belt that has a steel/gunmetal-grey England flag subtly embossed onto its buckle, as I sit with PooterGeek Snr, watching us thrash Trinidad and Tobago in the World Cup.
What would we have to laught at if The Grauniad stopped printing articles written by lefty loonies ?
How does the “Cricket Test” enter into it if your team are not even playing in the World Cup ?
Here comes the kneebite:
http://simplyjews.blogspot.com/2006/06/mondial-again.html
Ian:
The cricket test doesn’t enter into it.
I’ve said it before so I’ll say it again…have a wank and a Lemsip.
You’ll feel much better after that.
Never thought much of the “cricket test” I still support Crystal Palace although I have not lived there for 40 years and nothing would induce me to go back to the grothole. Most people support the teams they supportted as kids, it means nowt. Don’t know why we have this thing about what people wear either, being British is surely about more important things.
[…] It’s that “rhetorical racism” again. “As a whole, this part of north London is a great melting pot, home to immigrants from all over the world, many of them Muslims. On its outskirts is a very good, very oversubscribed church school, St John’s Highbury Vale, which siphons off many of the Christian children, particularly white middle-class children, from the area. Of the three churches that feed the school, the most ethnically mixed congregation is at St Thomas’s.” […]