Britain outside the EU

[Sephiroth]

Oh well, your heads in the sand vs my forebodings.

[ianch99]

Originally Posted by Paul

You do realise that not everything in the country is the result of a "Tory" policy.

No, but this is

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Originally Posted by Mad Max

Correct, but you'll get the usual " but I no better" from him.

But I am no better Don't agree with gambling

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Originally Posted by Ms NTL

Leicester: Hindus v Muslims

Seph was alluding to those between "Whites" and "Non-whites" i.e. a "Rivers of Blood" analog

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

Don't you remember the Sharia Law no-go areas a few years ago? That thinking hasn't gone away.[COLOR="Silver"]

No because it was a steaming pile of bs, a few ********s with stickers, no more than that

Originally Posted by ianch99

Seph was alluding to those between "Whites" and "Non-whites" i.e. a "Rivers of Blood" analog

Interestingly the woman with the "dog poo through the door" did exist, I wrongly assumed he'd made her up

[Pierre]

Originally Posted by Hugh

Evidence of "no go areas" in East London, please?

Plenty of “no go” areas in London, most major cities and towns. Not all down to immigration though.

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by Pierre

Plenty of “no go” areas in London.

Name one

[Sephiroth]

Quite a few people on the old "name one" trick. Their heads must be truly in the sand if they don't recall the Sharia no-go areas of a few years ago. What went on above ground then is stil doing nothing to integrate with British culture.

What do you people see when you briefly pop your heads out of the sand? Muslims integrating with Judeo-Christian Brits? The other way round? Hindus embracing Muslims as cultural equals? Somalians adopting British culture?

Or are you just being argumentatively woke?

[ianch99]

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

Quite a few people on the old "name one" trick. Their heads must be truly in the sand if they don't recall the Sharia no-go areas of a few years ago. What went on above ground then is stil doing nothing to integrate with British culture.

What do you people see when you briefly pop your heads out of the sand? Muslims integrating with Judeo-Christian Brits? The other way round? Hindus embracing Muslims as cultural equals? Somalians adopting British culture?

Or are you just being argumentatively woke?

What does "adopting British culture" mean, exactly?

I agree with Sephiroth - there will never be integration with other cultures whilst there is a vociferous minority running about screaming about being oppressed and disadvantaged, putting forward flaky culture-war arguments about how badly they are treated and always being picked upon, and that everyone in the country should conform to their religious views - but that's enough about Farage and Seph...

"Judeo-Christian Brits"?

There goes that "dog whistle’ again…

https://theconversation.com/why-jude...ar-right-85922

A right wing slogan

“Judeo-Christian” is now most often used to draw a line between imagined Christian values and a perceived (but false) threat of Muslim immigration. It’s in this context, that right wing figures such as Nigel Farage use the phrase. Talking about radical Muslim clerics such as Anjem Choudary, he said for example:

"My country is a Judeo-Christian country. So we’ve got to actually start standing up for our values."

But in this statement, Farage connects his fears of radical Islam with the idea of “Judeo-Christian values”. It appears that it isn’t so much about including Jews as it is about excluding Muslims. And since Farage has also come under attack for anti-Semitic comments, including being called on to apologise after recent comments about the threat of “the Jewish lobby” to American politics, it seems hard to view the “Judeo-” in his “Judeo-Christian” as actually valuing Jewish people or Judaism as a religion.

Invoked in anti-immigration rhetoric with the goal of excluding Muslims, this phrase is actually used to scaffold a false narrative about Christians being persecuted, threatened or besieged, which gives motivation for the protection of “Judeo-Christian values”. In fact, Christians are not persecuted in the countries where Farage and Trump make their homes.

A quick search on Twitter for the phrase “Judeo-Christian” illustrates that white supremacists have embraced the term – and that Jews reject it.

It’s not surprising that many Jews are not falling for this dog-whistle phrase, especially since the myth of a Judeo-Christian society rests on the false – and dangerous – idea that Judaism and Christianity hold the same ideas and values.

https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/...-actually-mean

Several prominent Jewish commentators have pointed out that the term elides the fact that Jews have often experienced persecution in Christian-majority European countries. After Donald Trump used the term in 2017, Rabbi Jill Jacobs wrote on Twitter that “much of ‘Judeo-Christian’ tradition involves centuries of Christians trying to kill us,” adding, “if you mean ‘not Muslim’ say it.”

[ianch99]

The 2023 Tories have finally, just about, got there:

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Final task, change the name to complete the job.

[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by Hugh

I agree with Sephiroth - there will never be integration with other cultures whilst there is a vociferous minority running about screaming about being oppressed and disadvantaged, putting forward flaky culture-war arguments about how badly they are treated and always being picked upon, and that everyone in the country should conform to their religious views - but that's enough about Farage and Seph...

"Judeo-Christian Brits"?

There goes that "dog whistle’ again…

https://theconversation.com/why-jude...ar-right-85922


https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/...-actually-mean

Farage is spot on. He smells the coffee; he understands 9/11 and who did that; he understands how cultures without similarity don’t mix and when numbers reach a critical mass, problems arise.

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Originally Posted by ianch99

What does "adopting British culture" mean, exactly?

Sorry to put it this way, but, are you thick? Or just trying to trap me (again).

On the naive assumption that you are thick, and pardon the aggression to counter your passive aggression, British culture is all about the society (and its span) that has been built up over the centuries. It includes the effects of literature, democracy, sense of humour, sense of history and tolerance (up to a tipping point that we’re now passing).

I wonder what you’d say, assuming now that you’re not thick if the question was posed to you?

Smell the coffee.

[ianch99]

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

Sorry to put it this way, but, are you thick? Or just trying to trap me (again).

On the naive assumption that you are thick, and pardon the aggression to counter your passive aggression, British culture is all about the society (and its span) that has been built up over the centuries. It includes the effects of literature, democracy, sense of humour, sense of history and tolerance (up to a tipping point that we’re now passing).

I wonder what you’d say, assuming now that you’re not thick if the question was posed to you?

Smell the coffee.

I don't think I'm "thick" as you put it. The question I ask is the essential one here as it sets the context from which the complainant (you) is defining their world view.

You are equating "not adopting British culture" as just doing anything you object to. These people, from a myriad of countries, have their own cultural identities, literature, democracy, sense of humour, sense of history and tolerance, all of which are perfectly possible to be melded into ours. I think what you mean by "British culture" is some artificial Anglo-Saxon construct where "whiteness", being Christian, etc. is the (false) measure of conformity.

Remember that we invaded the lands where the majority of the people you object to come from, we subjugated them, stole their wealth and imposed our "British culture" on them. It is poetic karma that the position is now reversed.

Another thing to remember is the "British culture ... that has been built up over the centuries" is a direct result of waves of immigration, each, in turn, imposing its own cultural identity on the resident population.

[GrimUpNorth]

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

Farage is spot on. He smells the coffee; he understands 9/11 and who did that; he understands how cultures without similarity don’t mix and when numbers reach a critical mass, problems arise.

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Sorry to put it this way, but, are you thick? Or just trying to trap me (again).

On the naive assumption that you are thick, and pardon the aggression to counter your passive aggression, British culture is all about the society (and its span) that has been built up over the centuries. It includes the effects of literature, democracy, sense of humour, sense of history and tolerance (up to a tipping point that we’re now passing).

I wonder what you’d say, assuming now that you’re not thick if the question was posed to you?

Smell the coffee.

Did you conveniently forget to include religion, migration, foreign cultural influences etc in your list?

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

Quite a few people on the old "name one" trick. Their heads must be truly in the sand if they don't recall the Sharia no-go areas of a few years ago. What went on above ground then is stil doing nothing to integrate with British culture.

What do you people see when you briefly pop your heads out of the sand? Muslims integrating with Judeo-Christian Brits? The other way round? Hindus embracing Muslims as cultural equals? Somalians adopting British culture?

Or are you just being argumentatively woke?

I'm just concerned that working all over London from evening till morning I might get a callout in a no go area and then what, I mean I've only been doing it 15 years without any issue but I need to know where these no go areas are so I can demand danger money for going in them

Head in the sand that's a good one coming from someone terrified the muslims are coming to get him based on a sticker on a lamp post because make no mistake that's what the sharia no go zones were, I saw them, they like farage are full of shit

[mrmistoffelees]

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

Quite a few people on the old "name one" trick. Their heads must be truly in the sand if they don't recall the Sharia no-go areas of a few years ago. What went on above ground then is stil doing nothing to integrate with British culture.

What do you people see when you briefly pop your heads out of the sand? Muslims integrating with Judeo-Christian Brits? The other way round? Hindus embracing Muslims as cultural equals? Somalians adopting British culture?

Or are you just being argumentatively woke?

I’d much rather be woke than jingoistic. You seem to be OD’ing on rivers of boood

Presumably you have the same concerns regarding catholics & protestants ? Or is that OK somehow ?

Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees

I’d much rather be woke than jingoistic. You seem to be OD’ing on rivers of boood

Presumably you have the same concerns regarding catholics & protestants ? Or is that OK somehow ?

I remember exactly the same kind of language/rhetoric/fearmongering against the Irish Catholics in Glasgow in the 60s - coming over here, getting council houses, taking our jobs/never working and just claiming benefits, with their funny religion and all living in the same areas, etc., etc...