"Everybody's looking for somebody to blame..." (Tom Waits).
If the implication here is that Leicester anti-Somalianism is down to US and
not a by-product of venerable-traditional Brit prejudice against anything
and everything non-WASP, then this yUKy post must derive from the same
tradition (shame on you, Dave!).
Candice
> here detention without trial is being legalised, as is interception of all
> private e-mail, while the tv (just) was showing a programme that portrayed
> Britain (of all places) as being beset by armed criminals. For this reason,
> the show opined, soon we will have to become like America, with the police
> routinely armed. People I talk to, day to day, are swinging further and
> further to the right. It's all the immigrants' fault, they think (people in
> Leicester are apt to go on strange diatribes against Somalis, as urban myth
> has established hereabouts that armies of Somalians are being pampered by
> the state, they get free tv's, cookers, suites, carpets, I'm told) Myself
> I've never seen a Leicester Somali, but the tale is peddled.
>
> But I think the key-point is the US, a country that supposedly prides itself
> on its democratic traditions but in reality is totally corrupt, in its arts
> and letters as well as its social organisation, it is poisoned and it wants
> its poison everywhere else too, by the standards of some of the right-wing
> rhetoric that comes out the States (which rhetoric has some very strange
> bedfellows) even the social critiques of The Simpsons would be a subversive
> act if committed in poetry.
>
> Best
>
> Dave
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