"Bidisha" (real name Bidisha Shonar Koli Mamata) uses a discussion about the Booker prize to promulgate her own views on immigration, identity and diversity (while at the same time hypocritically saying the discussion is not about immigration, identity and diversity).
She writes, with self-confessed "venom": "Critics and snipers have a choice: embrace change or fear it; go with the future world or whinge at home in crabby insularity; welcome others with grace or ostracise them with bitterness; step up your game or get off the pitch; get with the programme or get left behind."
This is of course only a partial version of the choices on offer.
Perhaps "Bidisha" will forgive me if I slightly rewrite her sentence:
Critics and snipers have a choice: embrace change or fear it or insist that democracy and the rights of the majority are recognised; go with the future world or whinge at home in crabby insularity or insist that democracy and the rights of the majority are recognised; welcome others with grace or ostracise them with bitterness or insist that democracy and the rights of the majority are recognised; step up your game or get off the pitch or insist that democracy and the rights of the majority are recognised; get with the programme or get left behind or insist that democracy and the rights of the majority are recognised.
Not everyone is a fan of vibrant diversity. This is a massive social change that has been imposed against the wishes of the majority in the United Kingdom. It is a sad day when an established institution such as the Booker Prize falls prey to the diversity re-engineering of society against the wishes of the majority.
I am someone who reads a lot of books (a LOT of books).
But I will not be reading anything that wins the Booker prize or appears on the Shortlist.
I hope others will join me in this boycott (in any case it is much better to go to a good bookshop and choose for yourself rather than rely on the Booker gatekeepers to filter things into an approved diversity canon).
http://bidisha-online.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/the-man-booker-raised-and-transformed.html?spref=tw
She writes, with self-confessed "venom": "Critics and snipers have a choice: embrace change or fear it; go with the future world or whinge at home in crabby insularity; welcome others with grace or ostracise them with bitterness; step up your game or get off the pitch; get with the programme or get left behind."
This is of course only a partial version of the choices on offer.
Perhaps "Bidisha" will forgive me if I slightly rewrite her sentence:
Critics and snipers have a choice: embrace change or fear it or insist that democracy and the rights of the majority are recognised; go with the future world or whinge at home in crabby insularity or insist that democracy and the rights of the majority are recognised; welcome others with grace or ostracise them with bitterness or insist that democracy and the rights of the majority are recognised; step up your game or get off the pitch or insist that democracy and the rights of the majority are recognised; get with the programme or get left behind or insist that democracy and the rights of the majority are recognised.
Not everyone is a fan of vibrant diversity. This is a massive social change that has been imposed against the wishes of the majority in the United Kingdom. It is a sad day when an established institution such as the Booker Prize falls prey to the diversity re-engineering of society against the wishes of the majority.
I am someone who reads a lot of books (a LOT of books).
But I will not be reading anything that wins the Booker prize or appears on the Shortlist.
I hope others will join me in this boycott (in any case it is much better to go to a good bookshop and choose for yourself rather than rely on the Booker gatekeepers to filter things into an approved diversity canon).
http://bidisha-online.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/the-man-booker-raised-and-transformed.html?spref=tw
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