Jeremy Clarkson Slams “Coffin-Dodging Idiots” Who Voted Brexit

Well it depends on the context.

Here's the opening to one of his columns, specifically about trans people.

"Now that women can vote and homosexual couples can marry, you might imagine that the world’s student activists, trade union leaders and environmentalists would pat themselves on the back and break open a bottle of sustainable elderflower juice to congratulate themselves on a job well done."

"But no. They have decided that we must now all turn our attention to the plight of people who want to change their name from Stan to Loretta, and fight for the right for men to have babies."

Transphobic and un-Politically Correct, right?

Yet it ends with

"But then I thought of something. Let’s just say for a moment that one in 1,000 are transgender. Or one in 100,000. Or even that it’s actually just one. Let’s say that there is one person out there who is a woman living in a man’s body, or the other way around."

"I started to imagine what life might be like for the poor soul. It would be dreadful. Absolutely awful. And all they seem to want to make their life better is a third gender option box on official documents. That’s not really the end of the world for everyone else, is it?"

Here is the thing that people don't understand - Clarkson is specifically aiming for those who believe the first two paragraphs to read his column, in the hope he can change their mind. Anyone who believes the latter two isn't going to be swayed by what he says at the start, because it's "prejudiced, bigoted and narrow-minded" and stop reading. But someone who believes the first two paragraphs will continue reading and eventually they'll reach those last paragraphs where his real feelings are and hopefully by that point, their mind has changed.

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