On SKY at lunchtime the newsreader introduced some black woman as “The Diversity”..........she got no further than that before I muted the TV.
I don’t know if anyone else is getting like me but I’ve reached the point where it doesn’t matter if they are black, white, yellow or any other colour.......I’m sick of having it rammed down my throat.
Whereas I once would’ve listened to an occasional reasoned piece on TV debates or to a programme on the subject I now avoid it like the plague.
I remember the documentary about Quentin Crisp back in the early 80’s.......I was around 20-22 when that came out and I remember thinking about how horrible people had been to him and thinking it was unfair.
From the age of 17 in 1978 until 1984 I worked in menswear as most on here know.
My first assistant manager at Hepworths Menswear in Stourbridge was a fifty odd year old gay called Billy Bennett........he was well known and well liked locally and something of a local celebrity in Brierley Hill, he frequented a pub there run by another gay bloke called Warwick Plant if I remember correctly.
I never bothered one jot that Bill was gay......non of us did, one of the funniest and most cutting people I’ve ever met......for looks imagine John Inman with a more acerbic wit.
There was no gay agenda with Bill........he took the p I s s out of us more than we did out of him........a fabulous bloke to work with and he taught me many good life and work lessons.
We had gay window dressers.......but they were just blokes who preferred blokes and even though the younger brigade think us 50-70 year olds are “backwards” I can honestly say that my experience was of a far more Liberal mentality from the people I mixed with back in those days.
At my next company I worked with Christine who was a fellow rep and openly gay, she worked and her partner did the housewife bit.
When people joined the company someone would quietly warn them that Christine was gay just so they didn’t embarrass themselves by trying it on with her ( which one rep had previously done! )
It was more of a respect thing towards her so as not to embarrass her although she was totally open about her home life.
I worked with her for 6 years and with Bill for 6 years and there was not a single homophobic incident and not a single incident of them spouting about their rights.........possibly because they were treated like everyone else.
I will no longer listen to anything in the media about diversity........I will continue to treat each individual I meet in life on their own merits.
If they are white, straight and a t w a t I shall give short shrift as I have always done.
If they are black, BAME, LGBT, or a one legged Pygmy with a missing eye and a speech impediment and they’re a decent seeming person with an agreeable manner I’ll spend as much time as I have available in conversation with them.
When are these Diversity Nazi’s going to realise they’re doing more harm than good?