Nope, Candice
the implication is that the swing to the _open_ expression of right-wing and
racist opinions has been sanctioned by the swing to the right in the US,
aided and abetted that by the pusillanimity of the majority of its writers,
a quality that is equalled in Britain, and the constant bombardment of
mindless violence as a desideratum that objects such as Hollywood pump out.
Best
Dave
David Bircumshaw
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Candice Ward" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2001 10:27 PM
Subject: Re: opinion
> "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
> >
> >
> > David Bircumshaw
> >
> > Leicester, England
> >
> > Home Page
> >
> > A Chide's Alphabet
> >
> > Painting Without Numbers
> >
> > www.paintstuff.20m.com/index.htm
> >
> > http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/index.htm
>
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