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Thread #128605   Message #2882902
Posted By: Ruth Archer
09-Apr-10 - 11:38 AM
Thread Name: Folksong-when performance/when political rally
Subject: RE: Folksong-when performance/when political rally
"Remember although you may think you are right the other side thinks the same."

That's as may be, but when the "other side" are racists and white supremacists, they are wrong. When they want to use folk music as one of several tools to lever themselves into power, in order to be able to make discriminatory laws and to turf every non-white person out of this country, they are wrong.

Conrad, please have the courtesy to make pronouncements about what you have some understanding of, which is presumably the situation on your side of the Atlantic. You clearly have absolutely no understanding of the current political climate in the UK, nor the points Eliza Carthy and Trish Winter were making in the programme you posted.

As Jon Boden said, Folk Against Fascism is not politicising folk music. The BNP are doing that.