Those who can’t take the heat should get out of the kitchen

Jan 22, 2022 Letters

Dear Editor,

Kaieteur News – There is this new development that is gaining some degree of traction here. It is where men wait to pounce at what is purposely blown up to self-inflicted piercings, calculatingly elevated as being great personal disgrace. Because of the saintly claiming the heroic wounds of martyrdom, things threaten to go into untravelled territory, if allowed to go unmentioned.
Citizens are crying about humiliation and loss of reputational standing for the most frivolous things, developments that are childish, so petulant and pathetic they are. It is to ward off candid Guyanese, who are quick to categorise foes with less than lovable names, long part of local culture. It is almost automatic; and in the past, it was the easiest exercise to pin a name, not always flattering, on objects of distaste or scorn. Guyanese were made of tough stuff back then, could take it, roll with the blows. They bided their time, and came back swinging at the slightest opening.
This is why I question what we have today in Guyana. For when I look around for real men and real women, I am floored that there are so many simpering creatures around, full-fledged wimps; where we had the bulletproof before, we now have powder puffs. We are taking political correctness and exaggerated pain too far, in martyr’s syndrome lacking foundation. Racist, malicious, homophobic, and general hate speech, which I am completely against, while today’s artificial anxieties are detested.
Editor, I can understand someone objecting and retaliating with suit over being called a ‘pimp’, but not a wimp. This is taking pretense too far, hypocrisy too thick. As for those who shed tears over being hurt badly by letters asserting incompetence, insipidity, and the like, I find that so deliciously precious, as to qualify to be lingerie tears. Where does this appalling and utter nonsense stop? Surely, there must be a limit. Otherwise, we could be comporting ourselves like North Koreans and Red Chinese -not a thought in our heads, other than the agreeable. If anybody is offended, read again. Because this is how agents of the state are recruited to bend the obstinate, where all speak alike, sound alike, almost look alike, in true imitation of the uniforms once worn by the Viet Cong, which were cone hats, and black pajamas. I wait for objections.
Stop abusing and misusing the court system for what is nothing but frivolous and infantile. But I think there are larger objectives embedded in these proceedings involving so much so-called pain, angst, and desecration of the spirit. It is to curb dissent, to stifle free expression, to intimidate adversaries, to violate Constitutional rights, and to diminish democratic norms. This is beyond fair comment. It is about frank expression. It is of public figures subject to sharper glares. It is of speaking to truth. It is time we shed this growing stupidity and get real. Those who can’t take the heat should get out of the kitchen. Collect baseball cards. Compose chutney/rap songs.
Sincerely
GHK Lall

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