Far-Left Nut Job Considered Normal

           


                     

The deadliest pandemic afflicting the world is no disease, it’s a political mindset. It operates in such a way that infected men and women will accept the rankest idiocy as rational.

Last week provided a great example.

The UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, Rashida Manjoo, gave a press conference in which she branded Britain the most sexist country in the world. Anybody who could study the issue and come to that conclusion, and it has to be said she appears sincere, is insane or far-left or both.

This is eminently provable. On any measurable standard Britain’s women are among the most fortunate in the world.

Now one person believing such utter lunacy is no proof of a pandemic. The proof is in the reaction of our journalists and opinion formers.

Nobody left or right who commented on her charge described the most obvious reality. That Rashida Manjoo is a far-left nut job.

This is not from politeness. They are not shy about applying the description “far-right” or suggesting mental problems when anybody expresses a rational  opinion on the EU or gay marriage. David Cameron the supposedly conservative prime minister illustrates that the virus affects almost the entire establishment. Who can forget his contemptuous description of Ukip supporters as “fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists” and he evidently thinks little better of his own party activists who he’s dubbed “swivel-eyed loons”.

So when the UN’s Special Rapporteur, a law professor from South Africa, says something which is so ludicrously false that she must be a far-left nut job our  entire media engages with her lunatic pronouncement as if it was objective or rational and worthy of discussion.

There is no point in arguing with a person who is so contemptuous of reality. A sane audience at that press conference would have laughed her from the room when it became clear that her charges arose from her extreme politics. Or if they had thought her lunacy genuine they would have called for medical assistance.

They didn’t because they are infected with the same ridiculous mindset as the barmy UN Special Rapporteur.

If we don’t find an antidote quick it will be the death of us.