Phobia: noun: a persistent, irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that leads to a compelling desire to avoid it.
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AT THIS TIME OF the year, and every year since I was a child (I am now 65), the BBC has, despite its past monopoly of sport coverage; still likes to see its annual Sports Personality of the Year (SPOTY), as the kind of Oscar ceremony for all kinds of athletic achievement. Unlike the Hollywood variety where only the great and good pick and choose those to be crowned with an Oscar; the SPOTY is left to the discretion of the viewer to pick the most outstanding sportsman of the year. But this year controversy has left the liberal conscience that crowns the BBC, in a state of confusion.
The World Champion boxer, Tyson Fury who deserves, after beating the undefeated world champion Wladimir Klitschko, the right to be included as a contender in the BBC's SPOTY award. This award is about sporting achievement and little else. These were the sole boundaries that the originators of this award at the BBC set. SPOTY had no other limits attached to it than the accomplishments of sportsmen and women. But little did the originators of this prescription know of political correctness; which the current BBC has immersed itself in.
Tyson Fury opposes homosexuality – so what? He also has antiquated views on women – so what? He also shares the modern view of paedophilia, and therefore, neither of these politically correct stains brings him into contention with political correctness. It is only his 'homophobia' that threatens him. Only homophobia is capable of dismantling his entitlement to enter Sports Personality of the Year. An entry the BBC would like to eject him from; but, I suggest, the votes now supporting his stance are accumulating in his favour rather than the BBC's political correctness.
TYSON FURY'S achievements as a minority would have been exalted by the BBC. Fury was, after all, from traveller stock. A minority the BBC would have readily supported, and indeed did so after his victory over Wladimir Klitschko. Fury was from an ethnic minority background that the liberal BBC lefties would and did support after his victory.
But his inopportune remarks on the eve of the SPOTY has sent the BBC into a tizzy; which in theses 'modern' times of political correctness is so easy to do. Fury's opinions are just that; the accumulation of thoughts and prejudices of the type all parts of the political spectrum are guilty of, including the liberalista that now oversees and governs the BBC - an institution we all contribute to via the licence fee but have little in common with the liberal hegemony that now drives the BBC and therefore should be exempted from paying its the licence tax.
Fury may be a bigot, but he suffers no phobia as far as homosexuals are concerned. For a phobia is a fear of something whether it be spiders, snakes, or a thousand other fears such as enclosed spaces, open spaces, or fear of height. Phobias are an irrational expression of fear.
Fury does not fit such a description of fear in terms of homosexuals: he is after all a world champion boxer who fears nothing that in the boxing ring he comes up against – bigot, yes; homophobe …no!
The Left create phobias almost at will. When someone holds opinions and views they find outrageous then phobia is a useful tool to use by the Left to close down all debate. I have a fear heights and enclosed spaces, in other words acrophobia and claustrophobia (both legitimate phobias). What I do not have a fear of, irrational or legitimate, are homosexuals or Muslims. Muslims are, according to the teachings of the Koran opposed to all same-sex relationships. This does not mean that Muslims have a phobia (i.e. a fear of Gays) but oppose them because of their faith – and the practices of anal penetration may disgust them despite the teachings of the Koran.
I oppose Islam because in whatever guise it presents itself; it is a religion still stuck in the middle ages. The Islamic faith has never been tested like Christianity in the cauldron of a Reformation: and this is partly why, in the Arab world, Islam still clings to the plough rather than advancing towards the scientific and technological revolution that stimulated the Western world after the great 16th century Christian divide.
TYSON FURY'S SO-CALLED homophobia is no such thing, for there is no such thing. Prejudice? Yes. Hate? Yes. Bigotry? Yes. Fear, in terms of how we recognise and understand it – no! Homophobia is the creation of political correctness; that liberal poison that has left people afraid to speak out and give their opinions for fear of being charged with the gravest crime in the liberal lexicon – bigotry, and its composite; the hate crime which homophobia, or any other kind of politically correct phobia the Left determines to be none PC.
I will vote for Tyson Fury as sports personality of the year. I have little appreciation of sport of all forms but my loathing of the BBC is such that I am prepared to try and get one over on them by supporting Fury. Homophobia is not an irrational fear or otherwise. Fear does not drive those who oppose its practice - only disgust. A disgust of the liberalista, that now occupy every nook and corner of what Marx called capitalist societies superstructure.
Tyson Fury should stand his ground; stay true to his beliefs, and not be intimidated by the kind of insipid liberalism that he now faces. His views on homosexuality, you will be pleased to know, I do not agree with; but only his right to express them.
There is no such thing as a homophobe or for that matter an Islamaphobe (but the latter is for another piece). Bigotry is the only legitimate term to apply to those the Left liberalista see as suffering a kind of phobia, which gives the intended target of their political correctness a feeling of suffering a kind of psychological condition which automatically negates all argument or criticism, and undermines them. Fearful of the liberal domination of every quarter of society; people feel themselves less free to speak other than among their trusted kind; for fear of the black spot of racism being handed to them.
Dismiss homophobia as a term manufactured by the industry of political correctness. It has no legitimacy in any lexicon other than that manufactured by political correctness. Homosexuality was rightly legalised in the 1960s. At the time gays faced blackmail and prosecution for their practices. Thankfully no such cruelty is inflicted on gay people today; but prejudice is another matter. Gays are rightfully protected by the law. I remember the 1960's-70's when 'gay bashing' was the favourite sport of the bigot. Before its legalisation gays could be picked on at will: although protected by the law if assaulted; among the police at the time there were officers who thought homosexuals deserved what they got, unless the assault left the victim near to death.
To refer to gays in all sorts of ways people will find intolerable is no proof of those who find such practices intolerable, in any way justifies them being labelled with a phobia that was plucked from the air by the liberal political correctors.
Tyson Fury stated his opinion as a Christian, who no doubt as most Christians do. It was his view that the Christianity does not tolerate homosexuality. It is there in the New as well as the Old Testament. Gays are not very popular under either Christianity or Islam. Nevertheless Tyson Fury deserves his chance without intervention from the BBC tradition of political correctness. Fury should be allowed to enter the SPOTY and be given his chance to become its latest to be honoured – even if every PC lefty at the BBC has to attend grief counselling as a consequence.
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