I hope everyone will #BeKind and affirm her new identity. Especially those on the Left
Daily Telegraph
Michael Deacon
A 36-year-old glamour model from Germany has announced that she’s planning to emigrate to Africa – because she’s black. Admittedly she wasn’t born black. She was born with white skin, and blonde hair, to white parents. None the less, black is how she now identifies. To this end, she has had injections of a synthetic hormone called Melanotan, which has significantly darkened her pale skin. In addition, she has changed her name from Martina Adam to Malaika Kubwa, which is Swahili for “Big Angel”.
What an inspiring story. All I can say is, I hope that everyone will affirm her identity. In particular, progressives.
After all, it would be terrible if progressives were to say that she isn’t black. That you can’t just “identify” as something you’re not. That this woman must be delusional. That it’s obvious just from glancing at her that she isn’t what she claims to be. That she looks like a grotesque, even offensive parody of the real thing.
They’d better not make any such comments. Because that would be hateful, bigoted and exclusionary. Yes, Malaika may have been AWAB (assigned white at birth). But it’s not her fault that she was born in the wrong body. So, in the spirit of tolerance and inclusion, we must all respect her racial identity.
Incidentally, I was delighted to read that, as well as injecting the skin-darkening hormone, Malaika has undergone “lip augmentations”, and “plans to undergo a butt augmentation and surgery to ‘widen her nose’”. How wonderful that she’s been able to benefit from race-affirming surgery, so that she can be her true, authentic self.
Of course, no doubt a small, embittered band of WERFs (white-exclusionary radical feminists) will ridicule Malaika’s claim that “doctors say that I am physically now a black woman”. Personally, though, I can’t understand how they can be so cruel and hurtful. Quite frankly, these bigots are on the wrong side of history.
I just wish they would shut up and #BeKind.
Where’s the ‘compassion’ for tax-payers?
All week long, Left-wing MPs have been demanding that Liz Kendall abandon her proposed cuts to benefits. Again and again, they’ve angrily told the Work and Pensions Secretary to show some compassion, and think about how their poor, horrified constituents feel.
These MPs are undoubtedly kind, caring people. I have just one small question for them.
Who do they think pays for all these benefits?
It’s not Ms Kendall. Nor is it Rachel Reeves. Nor is it Sir Keir Starmer. Ministers may be the ones who dole out the money. But I wouldn’t strictly call it theirs.
Possibly some MPs have lost sight of this fact, but in reality, the money comes from taxes extracted from people who actually work for a living. People who slog away for long hours in not terribly glamorous jobs that they don’t necessarily enjoy all that much. This week, Left-wing MPs have focused entirely on the feelings of people whose benefits could be reduced. But what about the feelings of the people who fund those benefits?
How do those people feel, at the end of another gruelling day, when they read that money deducted from their earnings has been handed to claimants who say they need it because they feel “anxious”, or have eczema? How do they feel when they learn that claimants can watch TikTok videos full of clever tips on how to claim the maximum possible amount of money? How do they feel when they learn that, last year, this country spent significantly more on sickness benefits (almost £65 billion) than it did on defence (£53.9 billion)? And, last but not least, how do they feel when they realise that, after tax, they aren’t necessarily much better off than they would be if they didn’t work at all, and just claimed benefits instead?
Perhaps we should spare at least a little compassion for those people, too.