“It makes me sick to be British.”
Smart diver Tom Daley had a lightbulb moment during his BBC propaganda piece on homophobia in Commonwealth countries: It’s all Britain’s fault!
Completely ignoring the inconvenient fact that our Sexual Offenses Act 1967 legalized gay sex in England and Wales for consenting adults over the age of 21, ours is, in Tom’s words, the ‘toxic story’ that everyone should we feel deeply ashamed after the continuation of Jamaica. to make homosexual relations illegal.
He had his own anti-colonial realization, which formed the basis of an entire BBC1 hour in primetime last night, based on a conversation with a Jamaican social justice warrior.
Race and sexuality academic Carla Moore told him that sexual assaults by plantation owners on black slaves 300 years ago are the reason for homophobia in the Caribbean in 2022.
“It’s a thing that white people do to black people to hurt them – the end result is the homophobia we see today,” she insisted.
‘You are no longer in charge here, you are no longer master of this country.
“We have to determine how we will proceed. Unfortunately, this happens in the body of LGBT people.’
DAN WOOTTON: Smart diver Tom Daley had a light bulb moment during his BBC propaganda piece on homophobia in Commonwealth countries: It’s all Britain’s fault!
DAN WOOTTON: Completely ignoring the inconvenient fact that our Sexual Offenses Act 1967 legalized gay sex in England and Wales for consenting adults over the age of 21, it is ours, in Tom’s words, ‘toxic history’ for which we should all feel deeply ashamed of. behind Jamaica which continues to make same-sex relationships illegal. (Pictured: Daley knitting his Team GB jumper during the Tokyo Olympics)
And in a pointed message to Tom and his license fee-funded TV crew, she added: “Don’t come down here to make us feel like we’re the worst people in the world – we’ve had enough of that.”
Tom took the bait without even a hint of critical analysis, concluding that ‘it’s no use pointing the finger at people around the Commonwealth because they haven’t removed’ the anti-gay laws he’s meant to oppose. campaign.
Instead, of course, that finger should be pointed firmly at Britain, the nation he feels so ‘ashamed’ of, because the Empire’s legacy included anti-gay laws in post-colonial countries (many of which have since been repealed , by the way).
Tom went further to the Guardian (where else?), saying of the filming process: “I felt very dark about my relationship with being British. I came away from it with a really warped sense of what it meant to be British… I felt very powerless to be British.’
Good god, man.
Being gay and British myself, I suppose I should be grateful for these constant intrusions from Mr Daley, who used to make happy YouTube videos of his travels to the famously anti-gay destinations of Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
Tom Daley along with six LGBT advocates and athletes from across the Commonwealth at the opening ceremony of this year’s Commonwealth Games in Birmingham
‘Colonial legacy of homophobia’: In documentary Daley looks at Nigerian laws from 1923 with Nigerian LGBT activist Bisi Alimi
But I’d like to go a week without hearing him preach about something he clearly knows so little about.
Like his statement that trans people should be able to compete in all women’s sports whenever they want, for example, which would damn his female friends into competitive oblivion.
Let’s be honest for a moment, the complaint industry has been very good to Tom.
Being gay and widely accepted wasn’t enough for him – the moment he burst out of the closet, activism beckoned.
It is ironic indeed that he is so determined to cling to victimhood when his coming out story has been nothing but a great British success.
While he had perfectly understandable fears that he might lose sponsorship, get beaten up or see his female fans abandon him, the opposite has turned out to be true.
Does this mean that homophobia does not exist? Of course not. Like Tom, I’m subjected to social media every day of my life, but that hasn’t stopped me from pursuing my dreams in Britain.
In fact, Tom is now a much bigger star because of his sexuality, thanks to the tolerance of the country he now feels sick to be a citizen of.
He is the face of many brands, a popular presence on mainstream television and a social media force.
Daley poses with his husband, Oscar-winning director Dustin Lance Black, after being awarded an OBE in July
How sad that by subscribing to left-wing LGBT dogma, he feels the need to attack Britain, which has almost universally accepted him for who he is.
Let’s look at the facts of Tom’s claim that colonialism is responsible for modern homophobia in Commonwealth countries, because his BBC documentary Illegal To Be Me certainly didn’t.
Many historians have argued that homophobia predates the British Empire, not to mention the fact that many of the world’s most homophobic countries, including Iran and Saudi Arabia, have no history of colonization.
In many countries, an anti-gay moral code was established by centuries-old religion that effectively outlawed same-sex relationships.
As British Raj historian Dr Zareer Masani told the Daily Telegraph of Daley’s anti-British conclusion: ‘As a historian, I can assure you that male homosexuality in India carried punishments under Islamic Hindu and Sharia law long before the British Raj – reflecting how local sentiments as well as prevailing Christian sentiments—passed statutes forbidding it.’
He added that ’75 years after the British left’ there has been virtually no change in attitudes towards LGBT people in many Commonwealth countries.
DAN WOOTTON: Of course, it is a great concern that homosexuality remains a criminal offense in 35 of the 56 Commonwealth countries. But at least 15 former colonies have decriminalized same-sex relationships, from Australia to Trinidad and Tobago to India, proving that change is possible. (Picture: Daley during his BBC program on homophobia in the Commonwealth)
I’m not getting away from the reality that much of Tom’s documentary was harrowing.
The physical and mental torture suffered by homosexuals in countries like Nigeria and Pakistan makes me sick to my stomach.
And, of course, it is of great concern that homosexuality remains a criminal offense in 35 of the 56 Commonwealth countries.
But at least 15 former colonies have decriminalized same-sex relationships, from Australia to Trinidad and Tobago to India, proving that change is possible.
But what hope is there for further encouragement to evolve if the conclusion is that it is all Britain’s fault and nothing to do with the homophobic attitudes that continue to pervade those countries today?
Tom’s rainbow flag virtue signaling and anti-British rhetoric will do very little to achieve change.
This must come from within the countries themselves, not forced upon them by clever public figures who ironically assume the role of modern colonizers trying to stamp their moral code on the unenlightened world.
I deplore regimes that continue to outlaw homosexuality, but to blame Britain is as misinformed as it is naive.
