News from the Red Brown Front: Brexit Party Backer Brendan O’Neill attacks “nauseating” Gay Rights Campaigners, as Claire Fox Lives in Lap of EU Luxury.

“Moral panic over homophobia” says Brexit Party Pillar, Brendan O’Neill.

“Once, there were moral panics over homosexuality. Now there’s a moral panic over homophobia.” writes Brexit Party support Brendan O’Neill.

“There is something nauseating about the way in which gay-rights groups and political observers held up this crime as typical, as an ordinary event in a society like ours that is apparently riddled with homophobia” he continues, commenting on the attack on Lesbians on an all-night London Bus route in Camden.

In an outburst of emotionalism the Spiked editor pictures attempts to “depict society as a hotbed of rough, unenlightened beasts whose backward attitudes – in this case on homosexuality – threaten to tear apart the social fabric itself.” Drawing on the work of Cultural studies (Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State and Law and Order. Stuart Hall 1978) , and the classic studies of “moral panics” he claims,

In all these instances, crime has been overblown in order to construct an elitist, moralistic message about the vulnerability of certain identity groups and the wickedness of the uneducated, un-PC, dangerous throng. Identitarian groups might benefit from inflating their claims to victimhood – because that is increasingly the way in which people win moral recognition and social resources – but the broader social impact of this new, left-leaning crime construction is likely to be dire.

The moral panic over homophobia

Last week Spiked defended this lot:

Esther McVey is right about the Birmingham schools row

Joanna Williams,

Five-year-olds are on the frontline of the culture war in Birmingham. At school, they are taught about lesbian, gay and bisexual relationships and about gender and transgender issues. Meanwhile, mainly Muslim protesters argue that these lessons are inappropriate for such young children and run counter to the religious beliefs of their parents. They have taken to demonstrating outside local schools. ‘You say we are homophobic, we say you are Islamophobic’, said one, neatly summing up the state of identity politics today.

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The Birmingham parents are right to be angry that the state, via schools and teachers, should try to dictate how people should behave in the most intimate sphere of their lives. Demonstrating outside primary schools is ugly and shows children the divisions between the adults in their lives. But the last thing Birmingham families need right now is High Court interference. They need schools to stop teaching children about relationships once and for all.

Spiked defends on set of identity politics, the “Birmingham families”, but not another, the stirrers up of a “Moral panic” about homophobia.

A cultural conservative would say that the former RCP are well on the way to ..cultural conservatism. The politics of emotion, anger at “the state” telling people “how to Behave”.

In short a classic identity politics of the natural, the indigenous, “the people” of National populism, hard done by folk misled by “elites”.

In the meantime his comrade in the Brexit Party is free to enjoy her emotive Zombie politics, subsidised by the EU.

Someone’s living the Life of Riley.

Yikes, we are here; it is real. Daunting and yet an exciting opportunity too – in short time we hope to be here in Brussels, I intend to make as strong a case as possible for national sovereighty and putting UK voters' case for why we want to Brexit asap on OUR terms. https://t.co/y4uU31X1Q4

— Claire Fox (@Fox_Claire) June 11, 2019

Claire Fox seems to have enjoyed a waiter service and at least one meal in Business Premier. Who paid Claire? You? The EU or us the taxpayer as you fought back against the elite? pic.twitter.com/CNNb53SoP2

— Otto English (@Otto_English) June 11, 2019

 

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