Things get changed often when it comes to Words and Meanings, especially these days with the definition of meaning being changed right under our noses, and the important point often gets lost or buried over time. The latest example which bothers me greatly, is the talk of making it illegal to criticise a religion, not all of them, just one. Although maybe not just one, because if you add the prefix of ‘Anti’ and the extra word ‘Phobic’ on the end, it seems to become a rather useful silencing or manipulation tool. And one must question the amount of media attention that is now being thrown at the rather concerning issue of grooming gangs, and the significant numbers of perpetrators and victims. Quite the opposite of years ago, when it wasn’t discussed for fear of ‘inflaming racial tensions’.

But I realised, that was part of the problem in the media and part of the way they were able to suppress it. Because it shouldn’t be about a race at all, if someone is a rapist, or a paedophile, or a cold-blooded murderer, then what should it matter what the colour of the person is or prefix given to them is. It seems that prefix is then used to try and steer people towards that as a focus, so it can lead to other topics, discussions, and ultimately then used as a political tactic or a media frenzy. To then steer it further away by talking of lessons, policies and laws. All the while it’s allowed to continue or hasn’t even been dealt with yet, which means you know they aren’t really talking about lessons and prevention in the future. They are using talking as a way of getting away with not doing. Deliberate procrastination, for what seems a much more sinister purpose.

In reality, they should just be called grooming gangs, or rapists, or paedophiles and so on. Only once they are behind bars and removed as a danger is there time to discuss their motive, their affiliations, their background, their psychology and so on. By putting an extra perceived identity or difference over people, distracts from their actions as an ordinary human who has crossed the line of humanity. And once you cross that line, we used to have quite clear laws and ways of dealing with those people. So, like with many things these days, you end up asking why would the establishment want lots of stabby, rapey, hateful, murderous types of people running around, who appear to be untouchable. Speculated on in The IPA’s, about why they are able to suddenly have all the rights in the world, to have access to all the resources of our country, and are being given priority over the native population which has funded it all, as far as we know.

By putting any kind of racial or religious slur in front of a real accusation of wrongdoing, seems to leave you wide open these days to be ignored, harassed or dismissed. And really, it shouldn’t be necessary anyway to add anything extra, other than circumstance and motive perhaps. And although either of those things may come up as motive by the perpetrator, it should not detract or sway the punishment in any way, just go some way to explain why they steered from the path of normality. And we can see that some very hateful attitudes are being encouraged to fester and flourish, which were always there and are not new by any means, but they never had such an open stage before. Where so many people have so little self-control, or mindfulness, or manners. Even in politics they do it all the time, to have people arguing that it was Labour who did this, or Tory who did that, and so much time is wasted trying to point fingers and shift blame. All the while no one actually does anything, that high-level procrastination being how the government operates. A lot of spending, a lot of talking, and not so much doing.

Focus on the problem words and not the prefix – politicians, rapists, grooming gangs, terrorists, murderer and so on and to me it really doesn’t matter what religion or race you are if you fall into those categories. Because the media and those who own it, are very good at knowing what a well-placed word can do, and how people will latch onto things, twist things or add their own prejudices and add to the distraction of point. So, we end up being caught in a loop of discussion, with peer pressure and shame being used against people to ‘keep the peace’, or whatever excuse they come up with for not doing anything about it. Just letting the destruction pile up and sticking to whatever plan they are following, and we unfortunately are all being dragged along with it…

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