Milk is racist and imperialist apparently. Well, stands to reason; it’s white innit?
Would you Adam and Eve it, some so-called academics at the History of Science Museum in Oxford are to investigate the ‘political nature’ of milk, and its links to colonialism.
Now if these supercilious wankers want to waste their time on such a ludicrous pursuit that’s their business. However it becomes our business when we learn that their ‘work’ is being funded through the Arts and Humanities Research Council, which means Joe and Jane Taxpayer.
Still, I suppose that we can all gain some solace from the fact that this vital research can only result in a significant improvement in the quality of people’s lives everywhere. Not.
I’m actually working on a thesis that snow (being white) is naturally racist. It’s a bit of a struggle at the moment, but I think that my case could be strengthened with government backing to enable investigative trips to Switzerland, Norway and the western USA. A hundred grand from the Council would probably cover it…
Nominated by Ron Knee a brief supporting act by W C Boggs below.
DR JOHANNA ZETTERSTROM-SHARP
I had to look twice to see it wasn’t April 1st, for today’s stories of lunatics (and I don’t mean Dame Kweer and his gender bollocks). No, this tart has got one over on even him – this is a “study” paid for by us, of course, by some loony tart called Dr Johanna Zetterstrom-Sharp, who wishes to find out if milk is “racist”:
Words fail me, so this will have to do: