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Thread #113211   Message #2421881
Posted By: GUEST,Insane Beard
25-Aug-08 - 01:51 PM
Thread Name: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
Let me ask you a question, IB - do you at least accept that someone who questions immigration, and likes their own culture, may OR MAY NOT be a racist?

The real question is one of reality, WAV. Anyone who questions immigration does so without stopping to think of the effect of such witless grunting on actual immigrants, such as my dear friend, Rajinda, who came to live in England when she was eight months old & has lived here for the last forty-five years, her family likewise. Needless to say Rajinda, a Pakistani Moslem, thinks of herself as English; I think of her as English, as does her husband, likewise Pakistani, and her children, who are also English Moslem, born on English soil, living all their 21 years on English soil.

How are these people expected to feel when someone, such as yourself, starts gibbering on about immigration & repatriation?

So, in answer to your question, anything that causes racial offence is racist by default; such as your ideas, hatched in moral & human vacuum without ever once stopping to thing how offensive this thinking is likely to be to other people.