Posted By: TheSnail
12-Jul-09 - 06:33 AM
Thread Name: BS: BNP: What would you do?
Subject: RE: BS: BNP: What would you do?

Joe Offer
quoting Joe: "London is the most ethnically diverse city I've ever seen - but most of the inland population 50 miles north of London is lily-white, and they're scared of all the immigrants who have moved to their country."

Luton is 32 miles north of London. I respect your point of view, but please try and find out what you are talking about before condemning whole areas of the UK as racists.


Check your math, and your reading skills, Snail. I figured most people would understand the lily-white area begins 50 miles north of London (and note that I said the inland area). Luton, at 32 miles north, is about the dividing line - and yes, it did seem to be quite ethnically diverse when I visited there. I thought of saying the "inland area north of Luton," but I figured that readers outside the UK wouldn't know what I was talking about.

I did NOT say that the people north of Luton were racists. I said they're mostly white, and that many of them are scared of large-scale immigration. Their fears are real, and need to be answered. They need to be exposed to ethnic diversity in positive ways, and not have it shoved down their throats. Condemning an honestly frightened person as "racist" is certainly not a good way to get that person to accept racial diversity. Same is true for people in the north-central US, and for Californians north of Sacramento.

-Joe-