> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:13:49 +0000
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> Bearing in mind that the article comes from a consulting editor of the
> Salisbury Review - to which the Telegraph supplies a link I think we can
> understand how this sort or "rational racism" is being touted.
>
> The Salisbury Review has been around a while, and became quite notorious
> in the eighties for publishing material by Ray Honeyford.
>
> I think Kathy misses the point: it is the author, Jane Kelly, who
> identifies herself as a racist:
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> "But really I no longer need an excuse: mass immigration is making
> reluctant racists of us all."
>
> and this done in a devious way to suggest that her racism is just
> common sense.
>
> Now I am not sure that the article indicates that there is a rise in
> racism, but it certainly indicates that those who edit The Telegraph would
> like to stimulate a rise in racism.
>
> all the best
>
> Fabian
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> > I think you may be using too wide a definition of racism. There needs to
> > be some recognition that most prejudice is on the grounds of cultural
> > factors. It's fairly routine for girls in Tower Hamlets to be harangued
> > by young Asian men about what they are wearing. Also there were recent
> > incidents of Asian men there attacking people drinking alcohol on the
> > street (I don't like it either, but that's not the point), telling them
> > "this is a Muslim area". Are they racists?
> >
> > This is a very complicated issue and simply labelling everything "racist"
> > means we don't have to think about the limits of tolerance of cultural
> > factors - which cuts both ways. Some things should not be tolerated. I
> > am prejudiced against people who say that women are legally unequal to
> > men. I am prejudiced against people who slice off the genitals of small
> > girls to keep them "chaste" - does that make me racist?
> >
> > That article is a starting point for a consideration of an important
> > question that a lot of "white" people are unwilling to think about because
> > there are no easy answers and it's so much easier just to label attach the
> > label "racist" - or as would have been done in the Middle Ages "heretic".
> >
> > Kathy
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> >
> > Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 08:12:56 -0700
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> > Click on the link to read:
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> > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/9831912/I-feel-like-a-stranger-where-I-live.html
> >