Anyone for Dennis?

Olive branch to the man who loves what he says he hates

Dear Solidarity Dumfries/D&G TUC,

Congratulations on the recent Facebook post clamouring for an ‘Anti-Racism Protest’ at the Plainstanes in Dumfries to counter tomorrow’s demonstration at the fountain. It truly brought a tear to the eye.

The theory goes that, in reality, people like yourselves care less about immigrants and more about the notion of moral superiority, and that you deliberately bury your collective heads in the sand to real-life issues so you can castigate and elevate yourselves above anyone who points them out. For instance, did you know that TUC secretary, John Dennis, said that many of the migrants have to be ‘taught how to behave towards the opposite sex’? His own words.

Image: Bob Rich, Hedgeye https://tinyurl.com/242hx3zf

We have a suggestion. In the interest of unity and reconciliation, DoD invites both sides to come together to voice their respective viewpoints and individual perspectives on this issue. At some point tomorrow, why doesn’t John Dennis take a break from the peacock parade of piety on the Plainstanes to come over to the fountain and talk with the people he loves to call Nazis? The fountain organisers were asked if they would like to meet with John Dennis, and the answer was yes. They’re willing. In fact, they’ve offered before.

If John accepts this olive branch, he might just find that the group at the fountain are not the pejoratives he loves to spout.

Perhaps he’ll discover that the fountain people have legitimate concerns, given their real-life, lived experience—the same concerns that John himself highlighted: that some have to be taught how to behave towards the opposite sex. (And so it came to pass.)

Perhaps John can explain why the thing he personally said was a problem really isn’t a problem after all (apart from the fact that he knows it is).

Perhaps his virtuous friends can explain how people are fascists for protesting about the very thing John Dennis said was a genuine concern, but John Dennis is not a fascist for pointing it out?

Perhaps John can explain his reasoning as to why, until the men who need to be taught how to behave towards the opposite sex (his words) arrived, the people at the fountain never expressed any concern with legal immigration or the multitude of different ethnicities within Dumfries?

They’re really not Naziing very well, are they?

If Mr Dennis cannot answer to his own double standards, then perhaps the aforementioned theory is correct. Perhaps John Dennis truly loves the people he denigrates — those ‘malicious racists!’, ‘fascists!, ‘white supremacists!’— [insert false-invective insult here] — so that he can continually revel in his peacock display of moral virtue?

So, please ask Mr Dennis if he will take a break from his wallowing in sanctimonious righteousness for a minute or two, and come over and speak with the fountain people. There might be some heated debate but there’ll be no hassle, no threats, no violence—it’s not as if we’re Antifa.

He might just find that those at the fountain are actually decent people with legitimate, real-life concerns.

And he might just find that there are no Nazis… or is that his worst nightmare?

DoD

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