WHEN YOU'RE SO WOKE IT BLOWS UP IN YOUR FACE

Coren, supporter of White genocide 

by Daniel Barge

In the UK we have been enjoying another instance of someone tripping over their own wokeness. In fact, this is such a good example that it will be in all the textbooks on the subject for many years to come, possibly under the subheading "Woke cannibalism" as it's definitely a case of the woke eating their own.

It concerns Giles Coren, an intergenerational member of the media class, who has got himself into hot water with a humble fast-food restaurant review in The Times, a newspaper that has clearly been slumming it for some time as they never used to run fast-food reviews.

Coren, whom members of the Alt-Right will tediously remind you is Jewish, decided to spice up his otherwise boring piece of low-rent foodie journalism with a heavy sprinkling of wokeness that then transmuted into outright white trash bashing, never a problem for our liberal elites:

"I thought we’d try Popeyes first," Coren wrote, "as fried chicken is a marginally more interesting dish than hamburgers, carrying with it, as it does, the lively political backstory of a recipe derived from the marrying of West African culinary traditions with indigenous North American and colonial ones during the slavery era, followed by the appropriation of an essentially black dish by white cooks and recipe writers, the century-long racist mockery of African-Americans as primitive hungerers after a single foodstuff, and the wholesale profiteering on the dish by Colonel Sanders and what activists now call his “plantation imagery”.

Yes, so far so good. His intentions are noticeably and "nobly" woke, attacking the atrocious stereotypes of blacks as "fried chicken chomping chimps." Shining social justice sword in hand, he is clearly on a roll. But then, somehow, he gets too far ahead of himself and ends up making comments that get him accused of -- horror of horrors! -- anti-Black racism. How the hell did that happen? Read on:

"But I tend to think, yes, sure, white exploiters stole fried chicken from the black people they disenfranchised and impoverished, but look at what the theft has brought to white communities in terms of obesity, sloth, waste, high street degradation, dismal culinary monoculture, low pay, animal welfare atrocities… Isn’t fried chicken, in a weird way, a form of race revenge? The thrusting young economies of West Africa now must surely look at a KFC bargain bucket and high-five themselves that their ancestors had the forethought, all those years ago, to provide the means by which white culture would one day poison itself to death."

As we know, the gloating over white genocide is not even an issue, but just associating blacks with anything negative will lead to a 3AM knock on the door from the woke Stassi.

Here's a typical media response from MyLondon:

...readers accused Coren, 52, of associating Black people with these negative effects and blasted the review as "blatant racism", with one commenter saying it was "disturbing to see" the piece in a national newspaper.

In a comment to MyLondon, Coren denied this association and said he was "sad and baffled " by the criticism.

"I abhor and despise racism and racists, which is why I wanted to acknowledge and criticise the complex history of fried chicken as it is represented today on our high streets," he said. [...]

Outraged readers posted their criticisms of the review on Twitter, with one writing: "This review by Giles Coren in The Times is easily one of the most overtly racist things I've read published in a major newspaper in the 21st Century."

Another said: "Yes Giles Coren is a d***head but how many editors did this pass through before it was published?"

A third added: "Giles Coren thinking that the people of West Africa, a few generations ago, planned to ‘poison white culture’ using fried chicken is, quite frankly, f***ing mental."

The Independent's Race Correspondent, Nadine White, tweeted: "A review of the new London Popeyes restaurant in The Times. Fried chicken = Black people = sloth, waste, degradation."

The logic of wokeness, remember, is a perfect Manichean or even Zoroastrian division of the universe into two distinct parts: on the one side, the side of darkness and evil, are Whites; on the other, the side of all goodness and light, are, ahem, "the Blacks." And never the twain shall meet without a chorus of screeching in the Twittersphere.