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Thread #121408   Message #2651082
Posted By: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
08-Jun-09 - 03:23 AM
Thread Name: BS: I am the BNP candidate in Chippenham
Subject: RE: BS: I am the BNP candidate in Chippenham
"So you think we'd be better off employing "tactics" to get the message across to these poor, iggerant working-class types""

Not tactics, communication rather than ranting isn't a 'tactic'. It's treating someone as an equal with the ability to engage a bit more deeply with their own assumptions and reasoning.

I know people from my own working class background, who read The Mail, who are young, and have been brainwashed into beginning to take notice of what the BNP say.

They are otherwise good people, but they don't all necessarily take seriously the history of fascism, or the implications of BNP policies. It's too far removed from their personal experience. Now of course I could simply tell them how disgusting I find them, and tell them they are racists (which they will deny - and *believe* it too), or I can sit down and talk with them as an equal, about what they really believe in and encourage them to think a bit more fully about the whole thing.

One young guy of my aquaintance is a genuinely good person, I've never heard him express any form of racism - he likes what the BNP have to say about supporting the working class. He likes what they say about ensuring British interests are not undermined by Europe. He also thinks it unfair that British people don't recieve the same degree of support in their own country, that foreign people do. Now that's the way the BNP would put it. And I would suggest that ostensibly there is nothing wrong in any of that, presuming of course that the premises underpinning it all are correct (well it's in the news every day isn't it?), and the implication of such policies are not fully considered... That's where discussion comes in.