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Thread #113211   Message #2412883
Posted By: Phil Edwards
13-Aug-08 - 05:16 PM
Thread Name: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
WAV, 12th August:

"Look up your dictionary, Pip, and you'll find it's something quite different from the questioning of immigration you just re-posted."

WAV, 13th August:

"pro-immigrationist keep trying to equate racism with the questioning of immigration, so it's not surprising that dictionary definitions have moved that way."

So the dictionary definition supports you - except where it doesn't, in which case the dictionary is wrong.

But set that aside. Please, let's stop talking about 'questioning immigration'. You don't question immigration, do you? You're opposed to immigration, specifically on the grounds that you think there shouldn't be multiple cultures in one country - you've said this many times. Which means, in the English context, you don't think that West Indian and South Asian and Irish cultures should have been brought here. Which means you're antagonistic to, or prejudiced against, those cultures and the people who brought them here.

A straight question: do you think it would have been better for England, culturally speaking, if immigration from the West Indies, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Uganda had been severely limited? A simple Yes or No will suffice.