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Thread #161249   Message #3832014
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
12-Jan-17 - 04:20 AM
Thread Name: BS: Theresa May's new year message
Subject: RE: BS: Theresa May's new year message
Dave, of your 3 facts,
Saying he would be uncomfortable living next to Romanians
Using a poster of immigrants in the same way Nazi Germany portrayed Jews
Saying he would axe much of race discrimination law



The first was only introduced in the last couple of days. Farage gave entirely rational and non-racist reasons for it which you all ignore, obviously.

The third is entirely new! Please tell us about it.

The second is the poster. UKIP is first and foremost an anti-EU Party.
At that time the greatest EU crisis was the turmoil on the borders caused by its incompetent handling of the migrant crisis.
That is the context that you ignore and pretend did not exist.
In that context the poster is a perfectly reasonable way to highlight the problem and just used an off the shelf news image such as we were seeing every day at the time.

Your outrage is purely manufactured.
You have acknowledged that the views, values and aims of UKIP as laid out in its manifesto contains no racism, so;

1. In what sense is it racist?
2. How can you tell?