When a political idea sounds right, looks good, and wins you the approval of your peers, it’s all too easy to buy into. ‘Did you know (insert group name) are the victim of (social issue), due to (tenuous reason)?’ We’ve all read them. Meanwhile if anyone dares question or scrutinise such virtuous beliefs, it all too often results in shrill squarks of blasphemy, and finger-pointing abuse. And the end result is clear. An army of fake ‘facts’ evading scrutiny, that are easily exploited by the social justice mob, for likes and clicks. These super-cool-woke-zombie-statistics simply will not die, and continue to haunt us, paraded around and contorted further by annoyingly self-righteous nitwits. ‘Women are more often seriously injured in car accidents, because crash test dummies are designed for men!” This is a particularly ignorant contortion of the truth, which has won mountains of acclaim; routinely splashed across newspaper headlines, printed in books, and spat out by your favourite sassy feminist account. “Yas kween, you go gurl, louder for the ones at the back!” 🙌 The fact such a claim is false needn’t matter – and it’s too late anyway. The video of the guy yelling it into his phone has circumnavigated the globe, landing in a million inboxes, before the European Transport Safety Council, which found this to be untrue, has even clicked its pen. Pah! Who cares what some dusty old white-male study says, look, there’s an influencer over here dancing around in stupid glasses and a onesie, with their own interpretation of the facts, yippee! These made up claims are a scourge. If it’s not crash test dummy nonsense, it’s the pay gap, or the so called “gendered nature” of domestic violence. We can never hope to stop them all, and we will always lose, because it’s easier to set a fire than it is to put one out. Whilst hard work, intelligence and time, are things few influencers seem bothered to invest. So slap on a wig, dance around your bedroom like a lunatic, and throw up your favourite emoji, because the facts needn’t matter. ~ Source: IIHC  Images by George Dagerotip, Dev Asangbam, Gradienta, and Sofya Nom.

2023-12-15