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A young British actress, Seyi Omooba, was given the lead role in a stage version of The Color Purple but the next day she received a tweet with a screenshot of a Facebook post from September 2014 in which she had written:
The role was taken from her and her agents stopped working with her.
She contacted six other agents, who had previously been interested in her. Only one responded and described her as talented but misguided and brainwashed.
She has instructed lawyers to sue the Curve Theatre in Leicester and her former agents, Michael Garrett Associates, for breach of contract and religious discrimination.
‘It is clearly evident in 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 what the Bible says on this matter. I do not believe you can be born gay and I do not believe homosexuality is right…’She was asked by the theatre and her agency to retract the post and apologise. She refused.
The role was taken from her and her agents stopped working with her.
She contacted six other agents, who had previously been interested in her. Only one responded and described her as talented but misguided and brainwashed.
She has instructed lawyers to sue the Curve Theatre in Leicester and her former agents, Michael Garrett Associates, for breach of contract and religious discrimination.
In Steve Sailer's Coalition of the Fringes theory the modern Left comprises an uneasy alliance of grievance groups with few interests in common but united by a hatred of white people. This news is further confirmation of my long-held suspicion that Sailer is wrong.
ReplyDeleteThe Coalition of the Fringes is dominated by the homosexual lobby. Everything else is subordinated to the radical homosexual agenda. The glue that holds the Coalition of the Fringes together is hatred of normality. Any kind of normal sexual or emotional relationship is oppressive.
The Coalition of the Fringes is united by hatred of heterosexuality. They're happy to accept white people as long as those white people hate heterosexuality. If you're black or Muslim or Asian and you don't accept the homosexual agenda in its entirety then being black or Muslim or Asian won't do you any good. You're still an evil oppressor. Being female won't help you.
The misunderstanding of the nature of the Coalition of the Fringes by people like Sailer comes from the American obsession with race, and the obsession with race of the American dissident right. But it's not all about race. It's all about the war on normal sexuality.
And it's also the war on normal sexuality that drives the hostility of the Coalition of the Fringes towards Christianity.
I stole from you this quotation from Michel Houellebecq yesterday.
Delete“I am persuaded that feminism is not at the root of political correctness. The actual source is much nastier and dares not speak its name, which is simply hatred for old people. The question of domination between men and women is relatively secondary—important but still secondary—compared to what I tried to capture in this novel, which is that we are now trapped in a world of kids. Old kids. The disappearance of patrimonial transmission means that an old guy today is just a useless ruin. The thing we value most of all is youth, which means that life automatically becomes depressing, because life consists, on the whole, of getting old.”
Neither you nor Steve Sailer is right and I am not sure Michel Houellebecq is. I remember that the rainbow coalition idea of a new Left emerged in the late 1970s when it seemed that the working class was letting the left down. It goes back much further though, in England to Protestantism and the reformation.
I think this hatred of Christians, whites, etc reflects the truth that anger is very human, hatred is both inhuman and very human and a moral justification for hatred and anger will always find lots of buyers.
I think homosexuals are just pawns in a struggle, like men who have had their male members removed, but oppressed or supposedly oppressed groups enlist the sympathies of the sort of nice people who worry about animals. There are lots of those people.
The English used to have a great love of freedom, a great sense of justice and a great sense of humour. Are they losing these things? The first most definitely. The Protestant-puritan-liberal -leftist strain in our character is to blame.
A social-democratic consensus was established after World War II in the ‘free world’ that left-wing political philosopher Roberto Unger describes as including a "combination of neoliberal orthodoxy, state capitalism, and compensatory redistribution by tax and transfer." Arguments over the organisation of society were largely settled, the working class proved not to be a revolutionary class nor internationalists so the forces that were unhappy with the status quo searched for new revolutionary classes. The urge behind it all is the urge to rebel, to break things, to destroy.
DeleteI think homosexuals are just pawns in a struggle
DeleteAnother possibility is that the people pulling the strings of the Coalition of the Fringes have decided that homosexuals/sexual nonconformists are the must useful weapon for their purposes. Or the most reliable foot-soldiers. Or that the sexual/emotional/relationship battlefield is the most important battlefield if your aim is to undermine the foundations of society.
You're certainly right that the members of the Coalition of the Fringes are pawns in a larger game, but at the moment homosexuals have Most Favoured Pawn status. Blacks and Muslims are regarded as unreliable.
Of course the objectives of those pulling the strings and the SJW foot-soldiers do not necessarily coincide at all.
The urge behind it all is the urge to rebel, to break things, to destroy.
DeleteThat's the motivation of the foot-soldiers.
The social-democratic consensus has long since broken down. What we have now is a class war, with the elites seeking to consolidate a position of absolute power and unlimited wealth for themselves.
Of course the elites are motivated by hatred but it's a class hatred. And it's not the old class hatred because the old elites, the old ruling class, have largely been displaced by a new technocratic ruling class.
Look at the House of Lords. The old hereditary aristocracy has been sidelined. Now it's a new aristocracy of ennobled technocrats.
I don't think it's a conspiracy except in the sense that Leninism was always a conspiracy. Yes we have seen the elite that ruled England since the Conquest be displaced and the WASP elite in America ditto. In Eastern Europe the elites were destroyed by Communists. I never hear anyone remarking this or regretting it - but it is a immeasurable change, and its consequences are fateful and possibly tragic.
DeleteYes we have seen the elite that ruled England since the Conquest be displaced and the WASP elite in America ditto. In Eastern Europe the elites were destroyed by Communists. I never hear anyone remarking this or regretting it - but it is a immeasurable change, and its consequences are fateful and possibly tragic.
DeleteI agree. It's not just a different kind of elite that we have now, but a whole different kind of elite mindset. The old elites had their faults but they had an awareness that undermining the social order had consequences, for everybody (including the elites). The new elites seem to be incapable of seeing this.
It may be partly because the new elites are differently educated. They've had a more technocratic education. It seems to leave them with a very hazy understanding of what makes people tick. It's easy to sneer at the old elites who could quote Horace but knew nothing about science or technology but those old elites seemed to have a better understanding of the human condition.
It is a quasi-religion and reminds me that Whittaker Chambers said Communism "is not new. It is, in fact, man's second oldest faith. Its promise was whispered in the first days of the Creation under the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil: "Ye shall be as gods." It is the great alternative faith of mankind. Like all great faiths, its force derives from a simple vision. Other ages have had great visions. They have always been different versions of the same vision: the vision of God and man's relationship to God. The Communist vision is the vision of Man without God.
ReplyDelete"It is the vision of man's mind displacing God as the creative intelligence of the world. It is the vision of man's liberated mind, by the sole force of its rational intelligence, redirecting man's destiny and reorganizing man's life and the world. It is the vision of man, once more the central figure of the Creation, not because God made man in his image, but because man's mind makes him the most intelligent of the animals. Copernicus and his successors displaced man as the central fact of the universe by proving that the earth was not the central star of the universe. Communism restores man to his sovereignty by the simple method of denying God.”
The Stage, the actor's newspaper published this today.
ReplyDeleteEditor’s View: Even if the law disagrees, Leicester Curve and Birmingham Hippodrome were right to replace Seyi Omooba
Leicester Curve. Alistair Smith - Oct 2, 2019
What will happen in the Seyi Omooba case?
I don’t know. As I wrote at the time her anti-gay comments were first revealed, this is a legally complicated situation – the tribunal will likely balance up Omooba’s right to express her religious beliefs against her colleagues’ rights and, potentially, even her ability to do the job she had been engaged for effectively.
Leicester Curve and Birmingham Hippodrome’s decision to replace her was a brave and principled stand, but risky. They will have known they were leaving themselves open to a claim, but did it anyway. I admire them for that.
At the time, I felt sympathy for Omooba. Her comments were made when she was young. Her father is the pastor of a church that has some extremely unpalatable beliefs and she has clearly been brought up with them. The abuse she has received has been vile.
However, it has now emerged that she was given the chance to apologise and move on with the company. She declined and, instead, has doubled down on her opinions. Even so, I can’t shake a suspicion she is being used as a pawn to make a political point.
Theatre should be inclusive and someone holding controversial views – even views many of us who work within the sector find abhorrent – should still be able to operate within it.
But there are two issues that weigh in favour of the theatres from an ethical point of view.
The first is that – while I don’t believe you have to be gay to play a gay role – Omooba was playing a character whose identity she deplored and whose existence she sought to deny. Her comments, and unwillingness to retract them, made her acceptance of the role hypocritical and provocative. They called into question her ability to do her job – to bring empathy to her performance.
As my colleague Matthew Hemley points out, gay rights are under threat. Although others might argue differently, I’m not sure you can say the same about core Christian beliefs.
While Omooba’s statement challenged the very existence of her gay colleagues, no one is asking her to renounce her entire belief system – only an aspect of it that is causing others severe distress.
Omooba’s original post that caused this situation said: “I do not believe you can be born gay, and I do not believe homosexuality is right. Though the law of this land has made it legal doesn’t mean it’s right.”
Even if the theatres are found to have broken the law of the land, that won’t mean they weren’t right to do so.
While Omooba’s statement challenged the very existence of her gay colleagues, no one is asking her to renounce her entire belief system – only an aspect of it that is causing others severe distress.
DeleteThere's the liberal mindset in action. If only Christians were prepared to compromise and give up the offensive parts of their religion (like believing in God and morality) they'd be left alone. If only Christians would become good secular liberal atheists and get rid of the offensive Christian parts of Christianity we wouldn't be forced to persecute them.
"Even if the theatres are found to have broken the law of the land, that won’t mean they weren’t right to do so." That is how I feel about the government proroguing Parliament.
ReplyDeleteNo clergyman or bishop in England, as far as the net shows, has spoken out about this though it has been in the news for three days, yet they speak about so many things like climate change and Brexit that have nothing to do with sin or saving souls.
ReplyDeleteNo clergyman or bishop in England, as far as the net shows, has spoken out about this though it has been in the news for three days, yet they speak about so many things like climate change and Brexit that have nothing to do with sin or saving souls.
DeleteThe Church of England is a prime example of the sort of Christianity that is acceptable today. Liberal secular atheist Christianity. The Church of England is Christianity for atheists.
I do not understand Anglicanism at all but many Anglicans are good people. They have no magisterium but in this papacy that statement does not mean what it meant previously.
Deletehttps://www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/2019/matthew-hemley-seyi-omoobas-words-are-an-attack-on-theatre-from-within/
ReplyDeletehttps://blog.simplejustice.us/2019/10/01/no-con-for-canceled-omooba/
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