Welcome to this week’s I Call Bullshit. One of the most stupid things I’ve ever done was to tell my boss exactly what I thought – after a bottle or three of shiraz. Was I obnoxious, insulting, and unprofessional? Undoubtedly. Did I mean what I said? Well, yeah, I did.
That twee-moustachioed, pint-sized fashion designer, John Galliano, has blamed drugs and booze for a 45 minute tirade in which he maintains a barely controlled wobble while declaring his love for Hitler, saying to a couple of chicks he thought were Jewish:
People like you would be dead. Your mothers, your forefathers, would all be f****ng gassed.
See the video here:
His lawyer says he is neither anti-Semitic, nor racist. But there’s no way alcohol conjured that kind of crap out of thin air. It just retrieved it from the dark recesses of his brain. I call bullshit.
Alcohol melts away your inhibitions, and can make you do things you would never do sober.
Like trying to stagedive during a Clowns of Decadence gig only to realise a) everyone’s at the bar, not in front of the stage and no one’s there to catch you, b) button-down dresses sometimes go wrong when flailing through the air and c) the patterns on the pub’s carpet are there to disguise some really manky stuff that can come off on your face.
But alcohol works to release things that are already within. Little nuggets that your right-thinking mind tends to keep all bottled up. Your innate exhibitionist, or confessional tendencies, or amorous instincts.
After Mel Gibson did his own bit of Jew hating a few years back, Harriet de Wit, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Chicago told the Seattle Times:
What we can say is that alcohol has an effect on inhibitions and that, normally, people will repress certain comments because they are not socially acceptable, but alcohol can take away that inhibition.
Alcohol can make people violent, anti-social, prone to having sex with deeply inappropriate people. It can make you do a lot of things you later regret. Or things you don’t remember. It can probably make you tell some small white lies to achieve the bad sex with the wrong people that you don’t remember.
But it doesn’t make you spontaneously start hating an entire group of people.
It just lets the hate run free.
As for drugs on the other hand – well, psychotropic drugs or nasty shit like ice can do all sorts of things to your head. But Galliano, in true-to-form patheticness, had only had Valium and sleeping pills.
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