Paris Olympics: a smug spectacle of wokeness

Spiked ^ | 27 July 2024 | Brendan O'Neill

[Rummyfan]

Is anyone else bored of ‘queering’? Everything’s getting ‘queered’ these days. We’ve had ‘Queering the Curriculum’. ‘Queering the Arts’. And my personal favourite: ‘Queering Palestine.’ This entails academics ‘unpack[ing] the multiple intersections of queer politics and the Palestinian struggle’. Hot tip for these profs: if Hamas ever invites you to discuss your theories, don’t agree to meet them on the high floor of a building. ‘Queering the Pavement’ is the only thing they’re interested in.

Now, with soul-zapping inevitability, we’ve had the ‘queering’ of the Olympic Games. Yesterday’s rain-sodden opening ceremony in Paris was super LGBTQIAzzz. There were drag acts everywhere. A bearded bloke twerked for the world. A bollock-naked man in blue paint was served on a platter of fruit to a gaggle of diet-dodging drag queens. Look, if I wanted to be exposed to the camp debauchery of drag culture, I’d go to a kindergarten.

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The part of the ceremony that caused the biggest stink was the camp Last Supper. A bunch of drag acts gathered around a buxom woman adorned in an aureole halo crown in an unmistakable mimicking of da Vinci’s painting of Christ and the apostles at their final meal....

Christians are angry. As well they might be. This was ‘extremely disrespectful to Christians’, said Elon Musk. Now, naturally, there’s a backlash against the backlash. Calm down, the woke are saying. Stop being such prudes and snowflakes, they’re chortling. It’s just a little light mockery, they’re insisting. Which is big talk from a section of society that would be weeping into its keffiyehs and demanding heads on spikes if the ceremony had featured a drag-act Muhammad being served a smurf on a plate of fruit with his cock out.

[Rummyfan]

The shallowness of these provocateurs is summed up in the fact that they would never ridicule Islam. Just imagine if a drag queen at the ceremony had clambered on a pantomime winged horse in open mockery of the Muslim belief that Muhammed flew to heaven on just such a fantasy creature. Paris would be in flames right now. Thomas Jolly would be in hiding. The papers would be full of chattering-class angst over the evils of ‘Islamophobia’. Instead – because it was only JC who got it in the neck, not Muhammad – the liberal press is full of praise. What a ‘unique’, ‘queer’ and ‘very French’ ceremony, they’re trilling.

[Rummyfan]

It would be a mistake, though, to see yesterday’s wet, lame spectacle as irreligious. For in truth, it represented the ascendancy of a new religion: woke. It’s actually fitting that, before the eyes of the world, France replaced Christ and his disciples with ‘queers’ and drag queens. It was a dramatic rendering of a real trend: the usurping of old moral values by the dispiriting belief system of the new elite. Indeed, if you want to be cancelled today, forget mocking Christ – try referring to a ‘transwoman’ as ‘he’. They’ll have your head like Marie Antoinette’s. Yes, if it’s blasphemy they want, let’s give it to them. Transwomen are men, drag queens should stay out of schools, Islam has loads of mad beliefs – what else should we add?

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Look, if I wanted to be exposed to the camp debauchery of drag culture, I’d go to a kindergarten.

Now, that's funny.

[allendale]

In today’s France Catholic churches and cathedrals are burned, its President Macron openly loathes Christianity and a huge percentage of its people have embraced neo pagan hedonism and decadence. The opening ceremonies simply reflect the culture of the host country France. The celebration of homosexuality and anti Christian drag queen skits caters and reflects the values and tastes of the French people.

[poinq]

Its not sports, its theater. I am not watching any of it.

[butlerweave]

Don’t forget the Woke Food or lack of food ,LOL

[TalBlack]

They’re showing the world who and what they really are: Twisted hate filled deviants. So much for tolerance and to each his own. That was simply a ruse of theirs to get their foot in the door.

[V_TWIN]

At least for now the Olympics have refused to allow men that falsely claim they are women to compete in the women’s events......this is the trans weirdos way of giving the Olympics the middle finger for that reason.

[BEJ]

Oh, they are so brazen and in such high quarters. That means the public is already indoctrinated to accept the craziness? All it really means is that government has been Queerized to accept the craziness as toleration, novelty, progress, virtue and a sh@tload of other convenient delusions. Look to the marriage of the government and the university social science departments for the complete run-down of what is happening. I prefer DEI should rather DIE.

[V_TWIN]

Me either......there’s always the UFC and we are about to finally going to begin watching the Chosen series.

[gibsonguy]

History has almost forgotten that the murderous French Revolution was led by atheists. It was not more than anything just a blood thirsty mob that eventually turned on itself.

[Steve_Seattle]

I remember when Pete Buttigieg first became a national figure, many in the LGBTQ+ community were offended because his marriage - even to another man - was viewed as a betrayal of the fundamental LGBTQ+ ethos, which is a call for unlimited sexual gratification with anyone at any time. Even homosexual monogamy was viewed as a betrayal, a concession to domesticity and respectability.

It is clear that the LGBTQ+ movement is a movement of radical paganism, an obsessive and jealous religion that insists on domination and punishment of any and all heretics.

[Psalm 73]

I will not watcb.

[brownsfan]

“That means the public is already indoctrinated to accept the craziness? “

The answer is yes.

[Billthedrill]

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. What a joke. French liberty consists of being forced by the state to remain silent at the risk of a prison sentence, equality consists of putting protected classes on an unassailable pedestal, and fraternity means everyone is welcome except the groups they hate. These aren’t just incentivizing violence, they’re committing it.

[Red6]

Great read.

Thx

[fella]

That Olympic opening ceremony proved to the whole world exactly WHO is running the show and it’s far more than just the Olympics.

The inspired writers of an old book predicted that this would happen.

[2nd Amendment]

I’m old enough to remember avidly watching the olympics, NFL football, and the nightly news. Now I just can’t stand the liberal preaching and wokeness!

[poinq]

Chosen is good