Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts
By: Yo Nosé
Tags: Culture War, Football, International Relations, Racism, Political Correctness

Last week, the Uruguayan football player Edinson Cavani thanked one of his Uruguayan friends on Instagram by saying “gracias negrito”. In Spanish, and depending on the context, such an expression might not have any racial implications whatsoever. By way of example, my own mother ─a Caribbean woman─ calls my brother ─who is not black─ “negrito”. Obviously, there is nothing in my mother’s way of calling my brother that could be labelled as “racist”. Honestly, I feel ridiculous just for clarifying that simply because I’m assuming that any reasonably intelligent individual would get it without the need of an explanation.

However, there is a very troublesome phenomenon going on in western societies that might have international repercussions for non-westerners if we don’t start paying attention to it. Everybody knows that westerners think of themselves as the demigods whose customs, habits and ways of doing should be imitated by us, “the rest”. In their own eyes, westerners are the gold standard of what it means to be “human”, and of what should be considered as socially acceptable.

Combine such a fetishistic, gigantic ego with the current state of idiocy that those same westerners seem to be experiencing on a massive scale, and the result is the preposterous controversy that erupted in England due to Cavani’s greeting to his friend in Spanish.

English media, as well as some English football players ─represented by some chump named Troy Deeney─, decided that such “racist” slurs shouldn’t take place in any language, in any culture, in any part of the world. That’s what we get when the traditionally entitled and imperialistic mentality of an Englishman is combined with the current state of mass-stupidity that characterizes his society.

Troy Deeney, that hero of the civil rights movement ─or at least that’s what he wish he was─, who certainly doesn’t speak a word of Spanish, went as far as to say that Cavani should be “educated” so that the Uruguayan would learn that “those words” ─which Deeeney doesn’t even understand because, remember, he doesn’t speak Spanish─ “hurt”.

We all know that there is an obsession in the western world with policing language. It isn’t a secret that, by now, freedom of expression in countries like Britain, Germany or Sweden is pretty much a myth like Thor or Valhalla, i.e. something they used to believe in and cherish, but not anymore. Personally, I didn’t care about that because it wasn’t my problem. If the British or the Germans wanted to allow their governments to rule over what they can or can’t say in their private spheres, that was their business, not mine.

However, currently I find myself disagreeing with my previous take on this matter because, if something is clearly proven by Cavani’s issue with the deeneys of English football and media is that Westerners will make every effort in their hands to spread their collective miseries all over the world simply because their already well known imperialistic and supremacist inclinations compel them to do so.

The deeneys, those arrogant, entitled, self-proclaimed demigods, will try to rule over languages other than theirs, over societies other than theirs, over cultures other than theirs, in the name of love, democracy, inclusion, civilization, human rights, or any other nonsense that only they buy into. The deeneys will come to our shores bearing their PC culture and censorship as if it was a gift, just like the Greeks presented the trojans with a wooden horse as a sign of peace. The deeneys will attempt to rule over “the rest” by means different than their armies. Yet, their intentions will be exactly the same as they were in the 19th or the 20th centuries.

It`s up to us, “the rest”, to refuse to let the deeneys impose their misery upon us. We must fight for our right to call our friends and brothers “negrito” whenever we want and to use whatever word from our native languages we see fit depending on the occasion. We must resist the deeneys in their attempt to “educate” us about how to use our native languages ─which they don’t speak─. Let the deeneys drown alone in their own misery.