Jeremy Clarkson has launched an attack on social media content that appears designed to “humiliate” the average person.
Switching his ire from the state of Britain’s streets or his crusade against the Labour Government’s farming tax hike, the 64-year-old has now called for major changes online.
In his new column for The Times, Clarkson took aim at online hypocrisy that commanded viewers to “do all that we can to look after minority groups.”
He identified such groups as being, but limited to, “Albanian car wash enthusiasts. Transgenderists. Llamas”.
Clarkson slammed social media hypocrisy over compassion
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Clarkson felt social media presented an unfairly perfect version of reality
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Clarkson sarcastically added that such content convinced people that higher taxes were needed so that “everyone can be happy no matter how mad or illegal they appear to be”.
However, he also argued that the very same people demanding “even more compassion” were also spearheading a trend that made most other people miserable.
The 64-year-old slammed that those online voices were at the same time “happy to humiliate the dull and the fat” - self-deprecatingly identifying himself as among that number.
In his mind, this was done by presenting a glossy, perfect and unattainable vision of reality.
Clarkson used David Beckham as an example of a "perfect" social media life
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Be it Rachel Johnson, David Beckham or any number of clean-living and well-toned fitness influencers, Clarkson bemoaned social media’s ability to make his life feel “one million times worse”.
While viewing Beckham's Instagram, he admitted: “We’d all like to live like that. And we all think he does. Which is depressing for those who can’t.”
Clarkson arrived at this conclusion while reflecting on a Sunday morning hangover and browsing social media.
The 64-year-old despaired that the experience further convinced him “you’re alone in your misery”.
Clarkson took a break from his crusade against the government's farming tax raid
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He also empathised with those who use career-oriented social platform LinkedIn, viewing it as a vehicle to present how much more successful your friends appeared to be.
He quipped that social media of any kind was like listening to Elton John's greatest hits without “the dross he wrote when he was a coked-up halfwit trying to make a go of things without any help from Bernie Taupin.”
To remedy this reality, Clarkson called on prominent social media users and influencers to present a more honest view of their lives.
He declared that the “truly compassionate” should “take a break” from the charade and “show the meek, the unintelligent. that you too occasionally have to unclog a lavatory”.
