Culture Massacre

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The biggest problem with the phrase “culture war” is that it suggests there is some kind of to and fro struggle going on between the forces of conservatism and those of leftie liberalism. But what’s going on is no struggle between roughly equal  combatants. If it were the conservatives would actually win the occasional battle.

It’s not even a war between unequal combatants. It’s not like the Second Zulu War, for instance, where the Zulu nation were forced to fight the British. That’s because outmatched though they were the Zulus still managed to sink the occasional  assegai into the odd redcoat or two and even won a victory at the battle of Isandlwana.  

Conservatives never win so much as a skirmish, never mind a battle. So what is called the “culture war” would be far more accurately termed the “culture massacre”. The position of the “forces of conservatism” as Tony Blair called them is something like that of the grouse on the Glorious Twelfth. Liberals pick their next target, take aim, and blow it to buggery. And like the shooters on a grouse shoot the only possible danger of being a liberal is the chance that he may be brought down by another leftie. A conservative has about as much chance of bagging a liberal as the grouse does a Purdey wielding shooter.

Consider gay marriage. Even the most liberal senator ever to run for president, Obama, was against it in 2008. Then just one year later the prospective Miss USA contestant, Carrie Prejean, not only lost that beauty pageant but was skinned alive by the MSM merely for agreeing with Mr Hope and Change’s opinion of the year before. What had changed in the interim? Liberals had decided that the seemingly rock solid and age old concept of marriage would be the next grouse to fall. Then fall it did. And think on this. If such a solid, respected and ancient institution like marriage can be deconstructed in a couple of years, what bedrock value or institution is safe? 

The latest grouse to attract the shooters’ eye over here in England is Oxford’s Oriel College. For months and months the ancient and august college has been in retreat from a pathetically small bunch of true believers who’d decided that #RhodesMustFall or in other words the statue of the college’s greatest benefactor, Cecil Rhodes, should be taken down because he was a “racist and imperialist “.

The college administration were bending over forwards to please their tormentors. All we grouse could see his days were numbered and sadly expected to witness his final flap, whilst for our own part trying desperately not to catch the eyes of those in the hides below. Then a miracle happened. A bunch of plumper grouse united for once and told the college that they had changed their minds about remembering the university in their wills. Oriel then announced in an agony of embarrassment that they had made a “principled” decision that the statue would stay. They didn’t say exactly what the principle was, but we can safely conclude from their earlier craven behaviour that it wasn’t respect for their great benefactor or the formerly great name of their university.

It really looked for a day or so as if we grouse had given the shooters a very nasty peck for once.  But then our “Conservative” prime minister David Cameron stepped in and proved his impeccable liberal credentials once again by giving Oriel both barrels. Apparently, the small number of black students at Oxford has nothing to do with black culture, their relative poverty, or the disastrous state of Britain’s state schools and everything to do with the university’s institutional racism.

As I say, he gave them both barrels. So even if Rhodes doesn’t fall just yet, Oriel itself is on its way to joining the great majority.