The legacy media desperately need their dwindling audiences to be locked into a constant cycle of confected outrage. There’s nothing exactly new about media beat-ups, of course. What’s new, in the clickbait age, is the frenzied intensity.
The legacy media are increasingly locked into the tiniest world imaginable – one whose boundaries are rigidly defined by tiny cliques of Twitter followers (ludicrously dubbed “the internet” by legacy media hacks) and a handful of hipster inner-city cafes. At the same time, the legacy media is overwhelmingly stuffed by tiny-brained Millennials for whom a different opinion is intolerable violence.
As a consequence, the legacy media has become a constant feed of hysterical shrieking over trivial slights and the most ludicrous beat-ups imaginable.
A One Nation candidate has come under fire after pictures emerged showing her husband dressed up in blackface.
Except, he wasn’t. “Blackface” is a very specific thing: the grotesque caricature of shiny black greasepaint with pop-eyed white circles and rubber-tyre lips. Just darkening one’s face and putting on a wig, whatever you may think of it, is not “blackface”.
South Australian political hopeful Linda Champion‘s husband Darren is seen wearing a black afro wig and with his face and body painted darker in a photo that emerged on Wednesday.
The picture showed Mr Champion wearing a sports tank top next to Ms Champion’s son Jimmy […]
The post was put up in 2012, before being republished again in 2016 with the caption, ‘brother from another mother’.
So, we have a stepfather and stepson clowning around together – one of whom is notably dark-featured and clearly entirely relaxed with the dad-joke antics.
More to the point, neither of them are the political candidate in question.
When confronted over the pictures, Ms Champion, the candidate for the seat of Spence, told the Adelaide Advertiser she wasn’t responsible for the pictures.
“I have not worn ‘blackface’ and I did not post these images,” she said.
Daily Mail
On the other hand, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau personally blacked up – although even that wasn’t genuine “blackface.” And, like the photo the media are trying to beat up now, Trudeau, in cartoonish Indian costume, is posed smiling and joking with two Sikhs.
Guess what? Nobody cares.
Another one for the Who the Hell Cares? Files, there’s this wally:
A Canadian wellness coach is facing deportation from Bali after performing a haka naked on a sacred mountain.
Jeff Craigen posted a video of himself on social media naked atop Mount Batur, attempting a performance of Ka Mate.
Mount Batur is considered sacred by many Balinese, after a volcanic eruption in 1926 wiped out an entire village – but left the mountain’s shrine intact.
“When you strip naked without shame and the fear of being seen, you become a fearless child of God,” Craigen said in his video.
So, the typical, vacuous inanity of the Instagram generation, but… who cares?
Alleged comedian John Oliver can set up a mock church, Sarah Silverman can blither, “I hope the Jews did kill Christ; I’d do it again” and CNN’s oleaginous Don Lemon can sneer at Christians – and the media-left will dutifully whoop and holler.
But ‘appropriate’ the superstitions of a stone-age culture and the same media-left have a meltdown – invariably in a mangled jargon of te Reo.
Hundreds of social media users in Aotearoa have since weighed in as well. One user labelled Craigen an “absolute spinner”, another called him a “nut job” and invited him to Aotearoa so locals could he aha o whakaaro (respond) to his haka […]
“My intention wasn’t to disrespect the Maori culture. I didn’t even know the words I was saying,” a tearful Craigen said.
NZ Herald
That’s OK, neither do most of the wokesters in the government and media who parrot them incessantly.
So, Namaste, eat, pray, love… and take a teaspoon of cement and harden the fuck up, because nobody cares.
