Before the pandemic, I already knew that there were too many white people with martyr complexes who desperately wanted to believe that they were oppressed. But the pandemic definitely made those people lose their everloving f–king minds. Suddenly, mask mandates represented the jack boot of fascism and Covid protocols made Saltine Americans feel like they were being “enslaved.” Well, America definitely had the franchise on dumbf–k pandemic bullsh-t, but Britain was trying to keep up. I still haven’t forgotten that Eric Clapton basically got self-radicalized on YouTube as a QAnon anti-Vaxxer. Now it looks like Morrissey would also like to say words about how pandemic restrictions were so much like “slavery.” This was during an interview conducted by his nephew Sam Esty Rayner.
Morrissey calls it ‘Con-vid’: “The bigger problem is that nobody can any longer agree with anyone else, and this is the main outcome of Con-vid. It has brought the worst out in people, and we weren’t ever in this together. We are deprived of seeing and hearing other people, and above all, you want to be with others who see and hear what you see and hear, because this is basic oxygen for the human soul. Take it away and people are dead.”
Just like slavery: When Rayner described COVID society as “the precise description of slavery,” Morrissey responded, “Precisely.” He added, “Our present freedom is restricted to visiting supermarkets and buying sofas. The government act like Chinese emperors… ‘We will allow you to live as we do if you behave yourself.’”
On people trying to cancel him: “You can’t cancel someone who has always been cancelled. When did you last see me on television, or hear me on the radio? I unintentionally invented the condition of being cancelled! The music industry hasn’t ever celebrated me or offered me free food. I’ve always been treated like a scientific experiment gone wrong. I’m used to it. I’ve been immune to enemy fire for many years. I wear a bullet-proof vest in the bath. It seems to me that as soon as one person boo’s they all start to boo, and then when someone cheers they all start to cheer… but that’s just a loose theory.”
He’s apolitical except for his support of the far-right, anti-Muslim For Britain party. “I still haven’t ever voted for a political party in my entire life and my interest has curdled recently because, well, I was only attacked a couple of years ago because I had actually hit on something.”
Ah, yes, the slavery of only being allowed to go grocery shopping and furniture shopping. Wearing a mask to grocery shop is absolutely chattel slavery! Egads. When is Morrissey’s emancipation, huh?? I’m telling you, the pandemic broke a lot of people’s brains. There are millions of white people who genuinely believe that “pandemic protocols undertaken by a society trying to save lives” are absolutely equal to “slavery, fascism, socialism.”
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