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Thread #116395   Message #2503641
Posted By: Phil Edwards
28-Nov-08 - 01:06 PM
Thread Name: neo-fascist-folk, please illuminate.
Subject: RE: neo-fascist-folk, please illuminate.
If a black person feels that he/she is being discriminated against because of skin colour, his/her complaint MUST be treated as a case of racism, and seriously investigated as such. No such consideration is forthcoming when the complainant is white. Try making a complaint, and see where it gets you.

A few years ago my son got picked on at the local swimming pool. Trying to get an idea of who the lads were who'd done it, we asked him (among other things) if they had brown skin. He said "Yes, but why do you ask?", which made us feel... well, not racist so much as out of date. When he was at primary school he was told over and over again that being black or Asian is OK, that being Muslim is OK, and so on - and as a result of this bombardment of PC propaganda he grew up genuinely not caring about skin colour. I think that's a real social advance.

But the story doesn't end there. After we complained to the management of the baths about what had happened, we were contacted by the police, who asked if my son wanted to make a statement. They said that they were concerned that there might have been an incident of racially-motivated violence (i.e. that my son had been picked on because he's white), and they wanted us to know that they take any such incident very seriously. My son said he didn't want to take it any further, and that was that.

So I can assure you, Don, that (at least in Guardian-reading South Manchester) your belief is 100% unfounded. Not only do the authorities not reject complaints of anti-white racism - they actually invite such complaints.

Government, both national and local, is falling over itself to avoid upsetting ethnic minorities, in ways that sometimes even those ethnic groups find ridiculous.

Banning Blackboards
Banning Nativity plays in primary schools
Banning the traditional Christian assembly, that ties in with our having an established church.


Have you got any evidence that any of this has happened? (The 'banning' part especially.) It's true that at my daughter's school the morning 'act of worship, predominantly Christian' doesn't seem to have any religious content at all, but (a) that seems more likely to be a pragmatic adaptation to a 50% non-white school population than a diktat from higher powers, and (b) I don't know if this is true of other state primary schools, and if it is how long it's been like that.

These are myths, Don - myths, (urban) legends and occasional isolated cases of genuine PC zealotry, most of which have gained mythical proportions in the telling. And they're precisely the sort of myth that the BNP thrive on.