WTF Guardian? Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t human trafficking A Bad Thing? Don’t you campaign against it on a regular basis?
Or is it only OK when it means Londoners are not deprived of their beloved Chinese food on a Saturday night? Never mind the exploited, overworked, underpaid, illegal Chinese sods in the kitchen, huh? Nothing else matters so long as we get to enjoy our duck shredded in a pancake, soaking in the hoisin of your lies!
Newsflash: according to the Daily Mail, Serena Williams is a zombie.
No, really – I did a screen capture in case they correct their headline:
Oh, she nearly died then. I did think it might be a bit tricky to play tennis after you’re dead, but what do I know?
When nobody involved is white, that’s when.
First we had this ridiculous story: White star pulls out of West Side Story concert following race row
A white actress playing Maria, a Puerto Rican, is apparently unacceptable. She was told “This is not your story to tell” by some SJW on Twitter (why people care so much about Twitter is beyond me). The massive guilt trip has caused her to resign and make an apologetic statement about being “miscast”.
She played the same part three years ago and nobody batted an eyelid!
Meanwhile, it has recently been announced that Beverley Knight will play Emmeline Pankhurst in the West End.
Outrage? No. Twitter shitstorm? Nope. Not her story to tell? You must be joking, black women are always relevant.
And then we have a Dutch-Korean actress playing a Thai woman in The King And I. Still not a peep. By the way, the king of Siam himself is played by a Japanese actor! And said Dutch-Korean actress played Fantine (a white 19th century Frenchwoman) in Les Misérables in 2014. Somehow, by an absolute miracle, that was totally her story to tell. Huh.
Welcome to the University of Adelaide, where we teach our male students to mansplain like a boss and our female students to listen respectfully like the lesser beings they are.
It could be worse: in the US the girls would have been urged to smile as well.