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The normalisation of the far-right continues


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36 minutes ago, MazzyStar said:

No, it looks like they've found common cause 

"increased EU support for voluntary return and reintegration to countries of origin" 

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2 hours ago, coprolite said:

Libya is mentioned in there, it used to act as a magnet for sub-Saharan migrants due to Gaddafi's pan-Africanist ideals. No doubt worker exploitation befell those migrants in Libya but it was a lot better than the rape, murder, pogroms and persecution described in that article. NATO got rid of Gaddafi for his refusal to join the globalised (Americanised) economic system and racism has since replaced pan-Africanism. 

With Tunisian democracy, the absence of leftist options is due to all socialist movements being extinguished during Cold War times. Only Islamists survived, seeing as they had the mosques for refuge and mosques couldn't be destroyed how trade unions could be. The Islamists also benefited from US and British support. Thatcher famously even gave UK asylum to Mahgrebi Islamists, the father of the Manchester Arena bomber among them. So the Enaddha party, formed by Islamists, were best placed to step up when Tunisian democracy began following the 2011 revolution. Enaddha, entirely shorn of any socialist influence, brought Tunisians neoliberal economics and social conservatism, a very shite combination. This created a popular revolt that was hijacked by a strongman, similar to what happened in Egypt.

 

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5 hours ago, Mr Waldo said:

That ties in with the last EU survey when UK was still a member. Only Malta was less racist than the UK.  I suppose it depends on how you ask the question

 

Given how many racist statements begin with "I'm not racist right... BUT......" is hardly surprising that most racists don't self identify as such in a survey.

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6 hours ago, Bairnardo said:

Given how many racist statements begin with "I'm not racist right... BUT......" is hardly surprising that most racists don't self identify as such in a survey.

Literally nobody does, outside of the hardcore jackboot circles who openly discuss murdering people based on their ethnicity.

That seems to be the standard - "I can't be a racist, I've hardly ever murdered any foreigners, and that was only because they were Muslims, which isn't a race, so there."

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1 minute ago, Salt n Vinegar said:

If the clowns who go for that stuff think they speak for me, they are even more stupid than they try to appear. 

Your club seems to think that they do. Their complete inaction against it is very telling.

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1 minute ago, StellarHibee said:

Your club seems to think that they do. Their complete inaction against it is very telling.

Oh, believe me, I know. I heard the 'we disapprove of bad fan behaviour' style pish for years. I even seem to remember a speech live from the centre circle just after Barcelona, and it seems to me that not much has improved since. 

There have been a couple of occasions in the relatively recent past when I was close to changing my stated football allegiance to either Scotland or my "wee" team, the mighty Raith Rovers. Too much c#nterocity next season might push me over the edge.  It is hard to change, but to me, conflating football with religion and/or support for a ludicrous system for appointing a country's Head of State is a sign of some form of mental illness. 

I should say that I'm not a psychologist, but I'm also not a gynecologist but I know a c#nt when I see (or hear) one. The songs and chants that I've heard over the years should make a sane person cringe. 

 

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16 hours ago, Sherrif John Bunnell said:

Why do all these TV historians all end up being massive racists?

 

Starkey always was an ignorant cnut (and not a particularly great historian)

Somehow I doubt you'd ever get a Marxist historian on the TV presenting a show on how most people's ancestors were peasants suppressed by the aristocracy 

There used to be a Scottish female historian who was quite good but I think she was pro-independence so quickly disappeared from the screens...

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