BACON EQUALITY
The
wife and I were going to have bacon for breakfast on our anniversary. We don’t
have it that often on account of we don’t have much money. Three girls. A
mortgage. Costs to run and maintain our one car. Electricity. Health, Car,
House and Contents Insurance. Driver’s licences. Public transport. Out-of-pocket
school expenses. Rates. It all adds up. After taxes and bills, we live on $35 a
day between all of us. That has to cover food, clothes, shoes, dental, and any unforeseen
expenses.
If
we have anything left, savings for a rainy day or special event. Like
anniversary bacon. Unfortunately, it’s not that simple. The Muslim bloke up the
road doesn’t approve it. Most of the Muslim folks don’t care what we do. They
figure it’s none of their business and treat others with the same kind of respect
they would like to get in return. But in every mob, there’s always a couple of
nutters off their axel. And that one doesn’t think anybody should eat bacon
because it conflicts with the rules of his religion.
Not
sure what his wife thinks. Her husband and the worst of his mates are a bunch
of narcissitic, idiotic, self-centred misogynists who use a warped
interpretation of their religion to impose their self-righteous bigotry on
everyone they can, to compensate for some serious mental health issues
including sociopathy and inferiority issues. On the plus side, they
hypocritically project their worst personality traits onto any poor sod unfortunate
enough to cross their path, and often go out of their way to find one.
Normally,
those wives are a bunch of beaten-down domestics with no real will or
personality of their own. But some are as mad as a cut snake. Some are just as
unhinged as the lunatic males. The kind of people who decide they may as well
use what small measure of power they can carve out to inflict themselves on
others out of some perverse pleasure in causing harm and misery. And here we
are, unable to enjoy a nice breakfast with bacon because those wack-jobs have
decided us eating bacon is evil.
Never
mind the fact that they are the kind of religious extremists who happily turn a
blind eye to those in their cult who are alcoholics, beat their wives and kids,
steal from others, are aggressive, won’t pay their employees, are sexually
immoral, foul-mouthed and violate a whole slew of their other rules. The whole
point of religion, for those people, is that it can be used to give them some
kind of power over others by interpreting religious documents in a way that
coincides with, most fortuitously, what they want.
No,
for some reason, all can be forgiven for the members of their little cult. They
don’t even need to ask. The members of their group just ignore it and silence
anybody who dares to speak out about hypocrisy.
But that bacon thing is just unacceptable. I swear, they’re almost as
bad as the bloody ACL and other far right zealots that claim they are Christians
despite, well, not following the rules to actually be a Christian - the very same
rules by which they insist (despite the rules stating otherwise) non-Christians
must live.
And,
like those so-called Christians, this very loud, very offensive band of bacon-haters
claim to hold the moral high-ground on all things, including bacon... despite decades
of evidence of widespread child abuse and paedophilia inflicted by predators
lurking in the congregation and leadership that has tarnished their
reputation. Even as they still refuse to acknowledge the systemic failures and
affect real positive change. You have to admire the sheer arrogance. And their
opposition to people who want to eat bacon.
But
they aren’t alone. Every half-wit and his dog have also weighed-in, insisting
they have a right to tell my wife and me what we can and can’t eat. The
extremist elements of the vegan community. Obviously. Animal rights groups
banging on about organic pigs, hormones, and GM foods. The anti-vaxxers, for
some reason, although they weren’t actually protesting about bacon. They used
the opportunity to have their say to screen an alternative fact based
propaganda piece about ‘the evils’ of vaccines. Nongs.
When
did stupidity become a religion? A small but growing collective of
disenfranchised, psychologically deficient people, unwilling to learn or accept
their limitations, get together, go bowling and suddenly get the idea that
smarter people are the enemy, and have to be destroyed through the use of
alternative facts to insulate the less competent from reality. And into the
vacuum the most belligerent dimwits rise, happily sacrificing their children to
prove their faith in whatever insanity they rant in their delusional tirades.
So
we’ve been on hold. Married seventeen years and waiting for the Australian
Federal government to approve the addition of bacon to our anniversary
breakfast. They’ve stuffed us around for years. So much for my so-called ‘white
male privilege’. Others have been waiting decades. Now the rest of the
Australian population is going to have an anonymous, voluntary postal vote in a
$122 million plebiscite. And even if the majority say ‘yes’, the LNP will then
have a conscience vote to make it ‘no’.
Not
sure why they just don’t vote themselves and forget about the postal vote. Save
the money. Spend it on something useful. Not sure why anyone gets to have a say
on who can eat bacon at all. Just an excuse to have a ‘discussion’ and ‘debate’
that turns into a vindictive, malicious, slander-fest that vilifies people that
want to eat bacon. It allows arseholes to bully and terrorise those families, raising
their own children to make the same vile, defamatory and psychologically
damaging allegations. Now that’s abuse.
They
don’t need evidence to prove their claims. They don’t even need a logical point
to argue the case against those they vilify. And they happily ignore
allegations and supporting evidence that far too many non-bacon-eaters abuse children.
That non-bacon-eaters are just as likely to have relationship problems that end
in divorce and domestic violence. Instead, they spread malicious lies to
demonise people who eat bacon. The vote, we are told, will make society more
‘inclusive’. Load of crap. It’s divisive.
Seriously,
it’s nobody’s damn business what two consenting people want to eat on their
anniversary, as long as they aren’t harming anybody else. Around our place, we
adopt a variant of the old US military attitude: ‘don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t
care.’ You want bacon, have bacon. You don’t, then don’t. So now we have a
postal vote with Prime minister Abbott using it as an
anti-political-correctness platform to oppress people, and Turnbull desperately
trying to claim he’s actually the Prime minister.
When
did bacon become so problematic? Why don’t these idiots just pass a law that
says “if you want bacon, have at it” and tell baconophobes to stay the frag out
of other people’s lives? Don’t these wingnuts have anything better to do? Can’t
politicians focus on more important things like homelessness, housing
affordability, electricity prices, cost of living, unemployment, childcare,
systemic failures in aged and disabled care, abuses in Youth Detention,
domestic violence, child abuse, and so much more?
When
did we get to have a $122 million anonymous, voluntary postal vote (that is
open to fraudulent vote casting) on those issues? We never got a say on: how
refugees or the unemployed are denied basic Human Rights; penalty rate cuts; pay-rises
for politicians; the privatization of public assets; big mining projects that
shaft famers and the Great Barrier Reef; or a whole slew of other things.
Politicians just did what they wanted while claiming they represented us, their
under- and working- class subjects.
Now
we have to put up with the extreme-pro-bacon faction from the ACL and other
RWNJ organisations foaming at the mouth as they scream about Halal
Certification, how Muslims are trying to take over the country, and how
religion and the rules of those religions have no place in our lives. Well,
Islam at any rate. And, yes, most of their vitriol is inaccurate and designed
to stir up hate and bigotry. A couple of years ago it was the Asians, then the
PC crowd, and ‘Feminists’, and now the people wanting equality.
Admittedly, it would be discriminatory to ignore
other cultures, but the fact that the RWNJ community is treating everyone (other
than themselves) with equal contempt is ironic. So they happily foam at the mouth, unleashing and inflicting their ranting tirades of unhinged, unfounded, and offensive propaganda at others, through any means possible, and then whine about their victims using the same public arena to ask for equality and an end to the hateful bigotry.
I
mean, what the fuck is wrong with people?! Would these bigots be happy if some
barely literate, ill-educated, ignorant, bigoted boxhead showed up at the door
and started telling you how evil you were, how you’re going to hell unless you
get down on bended knee and follow their rules? Wouldn’t they be like, “bra,
this is Australia, we don’t do that shit here. You want that, go find a cave in
the Middle-friggin-East, go bother goats, heckle ISIS and see how that works
out for ya.”
But
noooo. Instead of getting a clue, these arrogant twats just won’t bugger off.
They just keep at it. Quicker than you can say, “look! There’s a kid with
special needs who had the audacity to be born to a woman whose husband just
died and now she’s lost her job and needs welfare and a good dose of your
patented brand of stoopid”, they’re in your face, in your home, telling you
that you eating bacon somehow delegitimises their breakfast and is offensive to
them. That they are the victims.
Yeah,
that’s right. That you wanting to eat bacon is an attack on their way of life. That
this, somehow, is the cause of their breakfast problems. That some outside
agencies that otherwise have nothing to do with them, people they don’t know,
are causing their breakfast to be less satisfying or fall apart. That you not
having bacon will, somehow, magically solve all their problems, make them feel
better, and prop-up their own misguided, self-destructive, breakfast and
personality problems.
They
insist this is the way the world has always been. Even though their
socio-cultural ‘norms’ have only been around for a few hundred years, and even
then the community is divided into factions that interpret the writings of
their religion to suit their wants, and even individuals within those happily violate
these on a daily basis to satisfy their own self-centred desires. In complete
defiance of the evidence, the puritanical zealots will inflict hypocritical
persecution and then blame their victims.
But
ultimately, what isn’t normal is obsessing over what other consenting people do
with one another to the point you think you have a right to use ‘free speech’
to preach hate and bigotry, force your way into their home, into their lives,
and tell them what to do. And use that to isolate and silence the victims while
concealing and enabling predators, crime, systemic failure, and injustice. Make
no mistake, that’s what this is: one group of people using 'religion' and hate to vilify and inflict oppression and terror on another.
This
is how the festering canker that is the entrenched culture of corruption takes
hold and is normalised. Vicious, self-centred, ignorant, bigoted, vindictive
people and authorities inflicting indifference, apathy, incompetence,
negligence, idleness, insensitivity, mockery, insults, unfounded and defamatory
accusations, and intimidation. It’s just bacon. Get over it. It isn’t about
you. It’s about equality and justice. Still. Could be worse. Look at the crap
the LGBT community has to put up with 24-7, 365(6) days a year.
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