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But as the report says… it’s all solved…
https://twitter.com/MrMichaelSpicer/status/1377203613538398212?s=20
The man is a Harvard educated barrister ffs, not Ronnie Pickering
Many LOLs at this
Never has the term 'whitewash' seemed more apt.
I am reminded of that Gordon Brown moment when he called the racist old pensioner a bigot. In my opinion his biggest mistake at that point was not to call her out for what she was. Another one of those moments that contributed to the normalisation of these repugnant views...
I am reminded of that Gordon Brown moment when he called the racist old pensioner a bigot. In my opinion his biggest mistake at that point was not to call her out for what she was. Another one of those moments that contributed to the normalisation of these repugnant views…
Do you know which community in Rochdale she was unhappy about?
Conclusion: We couldn't see any systemic racism because it has been drowned in poverty.
Yup. Also, bright kids at school prove there is no racism, that they face blocks on their progress once they leave school is entirely down to, er, something something.
The section on health and Covid is the worst. I would happily cause physical harm to whichever sophist wrote that framing for them.
One of the people involved in the 'independent' racism commission is Munira Mirza - quite an interesting character. A former member of the Revolutionary Communist Party who is now a no 10 policy adviser. She idolises Hannah Arendt. Sample quote from Arendt's work:
In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true . ... The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness
Hmm, sounds relevant to someone...
The section on health and Covid is the worst.
Worse than the bit where they say slavery wasn't all bad? This sums it up quite well for me.
https://twitter.com/Danothebaldyhed/status/1377343511142363137?s=20
Never has the term ‘whitewash’ seemed more apt.
Yes.
Possible there may be a golden nugget or two within the report, but it kind of got swept away in the blatant bollocks that surrounded it.
https://twitter.com/allyfogg/status/1377537296895991810?s=21
The report’s conclusions, recommendations, and cherry-picked data to support a particular narrative shows why it should have been externally peer-reviewed by independent health experts and scientists.
Wow.
So Boris set up a report, setting out what he thought the outcome should be.
The report gives him his outcome.
Experts named in the report deny any involvement and other experts dispute the findings.
Its an utter humiliating car crash but we know who will walk away unscathed.
Welcome to Trumpian politics. Say a thing is true, ignore the people who provide evidence it is not true, move on without consequence.
£350m on the side of a bus
Lying about proroguing parliament
Patel breaking ministerial code
etc etc etc
When was the last time a Minster was forced to resign? Exactly. No consequence.
Government report: 'Society isn't racist!'
Oopsydaisy:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-56604470
What was it that the mummified corpse of Michael Winner (aka Hatey Plopkins) said to Baroness Warsi again?
Oh yes...
Your party? Hold on a minute sister. I think you will find it’s OUR party now.
Britain has Boris and a blue collar army.
Nationalism is back. British people first.
And there, you basically have it.
Stir up race hate to get yourself elected and win a referendum.
What a nasty little country.
I bet "Jean" goes on holiday to Spain every year, if not own a holiday home there, but doesn't eat "any of that foreign muck"
"Anglo Saxon"
Jutland, Anglia, Saxon coast, Frisii.
Jutland - now Denmark
Anglia - Denmark/Germanic
Saxon coast - Germanic
Frisii- Germanic.
I'd have loved to hear her lose it when you tell her she's mostly likely of German origin 😆
This is a genuine and hopefully a conversation question rather than argumentative one, but at what point does someone because British (or any other country) after they moved to another country?
I mean this if you take my family arrangement, my brother moved over to the US over ten years ago, he’s now married to an American (American Malaysian) and has now got two little ones. He did have a green card before getting citizenship (due to it being easier for travel and legal matters, definitely not for the taxation). He had to give up British citizenship but I would still say he’s British in his ways, accent, valves.I would always say in conversation that he’s coming home (even though his home address is in US). His boys are American, that’s where his was born. His wife is American Malaysia because she move as a child and has spend more time in the US. Citizenship is different to race.
Jean is a complete racists, it was not a conversation, it was a rant. I have Dutch (and a bit of french in there as well) blood in me (and a funny long name). I will always get people asking about it and where I come from but would never feel comfortable asking someone about their background because I feel it would come across as racist - I do however think this needs to change to help change how viewpoints.
My partner parents are Irish (so generally don’t beat around the bush), the mother in law worked in the NHS and would always worked with a mixed group of people and would always get a few clients that would say they didn’t want to be seen by a foreigner. Imagine there shock when she’d start telling them that you guess you don’t want to be seen by her either.
at what point does someone become British
(My correction, I assume that's what you intended)
For me, it's the moment you decide you want to call Britain your home, and identify as being a citizen of this nation. Certainly, having British nationality and a passport makes this more official, but national identity is a social construct anyway, so there are no real 'rules' beyond legal citizenship stuff. Even without all that, if you've lived here for a while and want to identify as British, then that's your choice. Nobody else has 'ownership' of such an identity, no matter what the knuckledragging racist idiots think. You can also identify as being of other nationalities as well, if they play a part in who you are. So you can be Jamaican and British, or Australian and British, of Ghanaian and British, etc. Because let's face it, no matter how much people try to impose physical, cultural, social or political 'borders', they are nothing more than imagined at the end of the day. Nobody is born anything other than Human.
Being British is all about values not race. Full stop. The problem with the current political discourse is that it is an assault on the core values of what it is to be British which is what causes the problem. Race has nothing to do with being British. The fundamental values of being British is to embrace other cultures and races where there is mutual benefit. the attack on British values will jar with the majority of people from a mix of backgrounds - immigrants came here because of British values. Why else would you pass though Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Spain etc to get be Britain before you "claimed assylam"?. You can call that racist if you want, but ultimately it's nothing to do with race but everything to do with values. And that is where the virtue signallers fail. they like to categorise everything by race and whatever other social groups that favour their view and predudice but its an artificial construct. Its all about the path of least resistance and people are grant to us because our values are better than all the other options open to them.