In answer to J K Rowling's festive Twitter thread, reproduced in the JC, JChronometer has created its own festive Twitter thread, based on stories by Hans Anderson and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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Once upon a time, there was a kingdom in which the poor became poorer and poorer, while the rich became richer and richer. Then a man called Corbyn who cared about the poor and oppressed – both in the kingdom and abroad --became Leader of the Opposition.
There were different groups in the kingdom who for varying reasons did not want him to become Prime Minister, because it was feared that he would shake things up too much.
Then it became known that a group of weavers had created a magical material made out of Twitter threads. The main alleged magical property of this fabric was that it revealed whether or not people were Antisemites.
The weavers of this material (one of whom was a well-known weaver of yarns for children called J K Rowling) claimed that they had managed to throw it round the Leader of the Opposition just before he was elected, during one of his massive campaign rallies.
If the person around whom the material was thrown was an Antisemite, it would stay on him/her permanently, over anything else he/she was wearing, taking the form of a black cloak with a huge scarlet letter A embroidered on it. The A stood for Antisemite.
But the Antisemite would not be aware that he/she was wearing the magic garment. The second important magical property of the fabric, it was said, was that only people who were free from Antisemitism could see or feel it. To Antisemites it was invisible and intangible.
When people looked at Corbyn and couldn’t see the black cloak embroidered with the scarlet letter A they were alarmed. “We must be anti-Semites without realising it! No-one must know!” they thought. To convince everyone that they weren’t, they pretended they too could see it.
“Look how black the cloak is, revealing the darkness of the man’s nature” they cried “and look at the luridly red scarlet letter A!” The more doubtful they felt, the louder they shouted.
But there were quite a lot of people who were so naïve and truthful that they said publicly “But Corbyn isn't wearing a black cloak with the letter A!" They were labelled by the weavers of Twittter threads as Antisemites and Antisemitism deniers.
But the truth became repeated among the people, most of whom had never believed in the so-called magic material anyway as it was only made of Twitter threads. And the bogus spell was broken.
With apologies to Hans Andersen (spelt correctly this time) and Nathaniel Hawthorne, authors of The Emperor's New Clothes and The Scarlet Letter.
