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Reply #270 - August 11, 2024, 01:52 PM

sunny spell incoming - wonder if racists and religionists will decide to spoil the last bits of summer?

someone should look into why these people don't value a good summer's day - being poor or uneducated don't seem believable reasons for rejecting peaceful enjoyment of pleasant weather.

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Sections of the working class have become open to identitarian arguments because of the way that much of the left – indeed much of society – has embraced politics of identity at the same time as deprecating the politics of class. For many today, the frameworks through which they make sense of their relationship to the world are less political – “liberal” or “conservative” – than cultural or ethnic – “Muslim”, “white”, “English”.

... It has also allowed the far right to rebrand racism as white identity, a rebranding given legitimacy by mainstream conservatives who now casually talk of white Europeans “losing their homelands” and “committing suicide”, of Britons “surrendering their territory”, bemoaning cities like London becoming less white.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/11/the-roots-of-this-unrest-lie-in-the-warping-of-genuine-working-class-grievances
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Reply #271 - August 12, 2024, 09:31 AM

Counter-protesters are also being giving sentences intended to send a message.

https://nitter.poast.org/SkyNews/status/1821881634104246737#m

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Reply #272 - August 16, 2024, 11:00 PM

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Sections of the working class have become open to identitarian arguments because of the way that much of the left – indeed much of society – has embraced politics of identity at the same time as deprecating the politics of class. For many today, the frameworks through which they make sense of their relationship to the world are less political – “liberal” or “conservative” – than cultural or ethnic – “Muslim”, “white”, “English”.

... It has also allowed the far right to rebrand racism as white identity, a rebranding given legitimacy by mainstream conservatives who now casually talk of white Europeans “losing their homelands” and “committing suicide”, of Britons “surrendering their territory”, bemoaning cities like London becoming less white.

Well gee, no one saw this coming of course lol
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Reply #273 - August 27, 2024, 09:51 PM

austerity 2.0 incoming: cutting spending and raising taxes is the opposite of creating growth - but it's great for bolstering racism and division.

https://x.com/Trader__007/status/1828378950533296634
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Reply #274 - September 14, 2024, 10:20 AM

distraction politics: ignore frozen pensioners, shout about russia.

https://inews.co.uk/opinion/keir-starmer-ready-war-russia-3272342?ico=related_stories
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Reply #275 - September 18, 2024, 02:11 PM

Hanif Kureishi (would've posted this as a separate topic but the forum is playing up) https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00232kv/in-my-own-words-series-1-hanif-kureishi
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Reply #276 - September 22, 2024, 10:55 AM

Coconuts: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/22/too-white-too-black-too-woke-politics-by-labelling-is-a-disease-of-our-times
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Reply #277 - September 24, 2024, 10:45 PM

Quote from: Ward_End on September 18, 2024, 02:11 PM
Hanif Kureishi (would've posted this as a separate topic but the forum is playing up) https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00232kv/in-my-own-words-series-1-hanif-kureishi

nearly forgot to watch this so thanks for the reminder.

almost forgot that liberal english asians were still around - these are the role models which the beeb won't typically broadcast unless they're dead or on their last legs. they even let him be frank about the danger of religious plonkers without editing him to oblivion.

anyway, regular programming will shortly resume with the likes of mobeen the comedy gangster and nadiya the hijabi baker.
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Reply #278 - October 02, 2024, 07:07 PM

yasmin is on the other side of the liberal asian coin.

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The truth about being a Muslim in Britain today.

Our continuing advancement depends on honesty, cultural liberation and productive alliances

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Reply #279 - October 12, 2024, 09:24 AM

I saw a headline about "british indian voters" and it reminded me about the recent influx of migrants from places like africa, east asia and of course, the subcontinent. since COVID, my own town has been transformed from being a mostly pakistani ghetto into a bewilderingly diverse ghetto.

rapidly staffing hospitals with nigerians and raising fleets of indians on deliveroo bikes might plug the demands of the system but what about social cohesion and all the other bollocks that govts pumped out for the last 20yrs? now I walk down the street and see unfamiliar faces, hear foreign tongues and smell alien aromas... fucking hell, I'm beginning to sound like tommy the twat robinson!

anyway, a ghetto is a ghetto - it is not improved by changing its ingredients. the solution is to disperse migrants widely and not turn every medium sized town into a mini london shit hole. yet this labour govt will still play the patriotism card, shake its fist at small boats and all the while facilitate unlimited immigration - just like the tories did before them

so what about british pakistanis? as the rest of this decade plays out, they will fall down the rankings as objects of hatred. the focus of racists will switch to the new arrivals and their children. british africans (evangelical christians) and british indians (bjp hindus) will be on the menu, plus a side dish of british chinese (obscure oriental ideologues).

the future is bright, the future is orange. (orange fake tan chavs rioting outside temples and churches - welcome to 2030s britain!)
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Reply #280 - October 26, 2024, 02:18 PM

that east-is-east movie needs a sequel - but without the comedy.

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She told jurors there was noise coming from downstairs from the first night she moved in, including a smacking and “gut-wrenching scream”.

She said: “It was a person smacking another person. A smack followed by a scream and then being told ‘go to your room’.”

Ms Redwin said: “Some nights were louder than other nights. Even during the day you would hear noise. The only time it was quiet was when they were away on holiday.”

The witness said an adult female would often say ‘shut the f*** up”, “shut the f*** up you bastard” and “shut the f*** up you c***s.”

Jurors were told the woman would make those remarks in response to a “distressed scream” that sounded like it came from a child aged seven or eight.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/sara-sharif-old-bailey-surrey-woking-pakistan-b1189679.html
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Reply #281 - October 30, 2024, 01:03 PM

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It's already been made lol, albeit without anything as dark as child beating. If I remember correctly it was a cuddly movie about going back to your roots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Is_West_(2010_film)
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Reply #282 - October 30, 2024, 08:34 PM

sounds like a betrayal of the original's dark humour.

it's been 25yrs already? bloody hell.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qqXf9hShtCg&pp
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