Mike
Racism (racial stereotyping) is a part of the facism I have encountered throughout my life - we have been over Keith's particular brand again and again - for you, it seems that racism is only racist when applied to Jews, but not to Muslims - which makes your attitude.... we've been over that too.
His attempts to suppress discussion in certain areas that would leave Britain in a bad light - nationalism - are also a part of the facism I have witnessed; open any BNP site - it's there in bucketfulls.
There is nothing "loose" about these, and they are alive and kicking in Keith's arguments and have been discussed over and over, without any defence being put up on his part (except his somewhat bizarre blaming of somebody else for the statements he has made - how would you react I wonder, if somebody said "I only believe it because Mosely, or Jean Marie LePen, or David Irving told me it was true, and they have studied the subject" - the sum total of Keith's defence of his attitude to British Pakistanis)?
Keith's (in my opinion, ultra) nationalism is present throughout this and numerous other threads - again, nothing "vague" about them.
The fact that he is still attempting to suppress any discussion on the Arab Spring as a whole is evidence enough of his attempts at nationalistic censorship - nothing "vague" about that - it is present two postings away.
I have asked your opinion of this, you decline to give it which is an answer in itself as far as I'm concerned.
Keith,
You fail to address one single point on your behaviour on this thread, either to justify your persistant and continuing bulying and extremely ham-fisted accusations of "thread drift" or an explanation of your own thread drift - which I have not complained about btw.
Until you address both, they will stand as manipulative bullying and breathtaking double standards).
You (and Mike) also fail to produce one scrap of evidence of my "hard leftism"; just as you have failed to produce one scrap of evidence of my supposed support for Hamas.... et al. Until you do, both will remain the empty rhetoric they have always been.
You have also failed to comment on the suggestion that the British Government should seize the properties of supporters of Syria such as Soulieman Marouf - not worth the effort maybe?
Jim Carroll