phil d
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recently an MP, claimed that victims of sexual abuse, such as those targeted by the gangs in Rochdale and Rotherham, should keep quiet for the sake of integration and diversity! Incidentally said MP was of the same ethnic background as the abusers!
This set me thinking about all that is wrong in this country at the moment, we've large groups of foreigners moving over here, most of whom seem unwilling to, A) integrate, and B) learn to speak our language, yet the Met police have recently announced that due to cutbacks affecting the number of officers available, they may have to alter the response criteria, priority being given to non English speakers, (later disabled and vulnerable people were added, presumably in an attempt to avoid a backlash) Gypsy's are now to be referred to as "travelers" (they don't) to avoid being accused of discrimination, we cannot describe anyone as coloured, and Black is often seen as a bit dodgy too, as for a shorter form of the name Pakistan, that's a definite no no!
So in an ideal world here's how it goes, I'm sat outside the shop in my car after buying my lunch, an alarm goes off and 2 males leg out of the local bank, one has a gun, the other a bag of cash. I leap out of my car and run after them, "EXCUSE ME" I yell, as we run down the high street, " could you define your ethnicity for me, I don't want to be accused of being a racist when the police ask me for a description"
What about us eh? a lot of people don't like people from Liverpool (scousers), now I live halfway between Liverpool and Manchester, sometimes if I'm away people say I'm a scouser, I'm not, could that not be argued as some kind of insult? What about calling an Irishman Paddy? or a Scotsman Jock, or a Welshman Taffy, no I think the PC brigade have gone too far in recent years, they have to get involved in things and in most cases make things worse, is the reason for the growing intolerance of immigrants not due in some large part to the way they are treated, or would I perhaps be more accurate in saying, the way we are expected to treat them?
Is it not understandable that there is resentment when people who were born and raised here are unable to get a council house, yet a person who has been here for 5 minutes is given one? Presumably not necessarily because of need, but because of a fear of being accused of racism, if they are not given one.
Recently I was talking to a gay friend, and the subject of gay marriage came up, He was saying that by and large the gay community are not overly bothered by it all, a civil partnership was fine, however it was hijacked by the do gooders who decided that gay people must be totally equal to everyone else, ( remember the Monty Python sketch where Eric Idle wanted to be called Gloria, and have babies, it was pointed out that he physically couldn't have babies as he didn't have a womb, "brothers we shall fight for his right to have a womb," yelled the agitators) a classic case in my opinion of busy bodies interfering in something they shouldn't.
With all the genuine problems in the world today, such as North Korea seemingly hell bent on starting world war 3 with absolutely anyone, wouldn't it make sense to concentrate on the important things in the world? Yes we should catch murderers, rapists paedophiles, drug dealers, etc. Should we be afraid of upsetting someone because of their colour or ethnic background as we do it? NO!
Any thought on this, for an intelligent intellectual debate?
This set me thinking about all that is wrong in this country at the moment, we've large groups of foreigners moving over here, most of whom seem unwilling to, A) integrate, and B) learn to speak our language, yet the Met police have recently announced that due to cutbacks affecting the number of officers available, they may have to alter the response criteria, priority being given to non English speakers, (later disabled and vulnerable people were added, presumably in an attempt to avoid a backlash) Gypsy's are now to be referred to as "travelers" (they don't) to avoid being accused of discrimination, we cannot describe anyone as coloured, and Black is often seen as a bit dodgy too, as for a shorter form of the name Pakistan, that's a definite no no!
So in an ideal world here's how it goes, I'm sat outside the shop in my car after buying my lunch, an alarm goes off and 2 males leg out of the local bank, one has a gun, the other a bag of cash. I leap out of my car and run after them, "EXCUSE ME" I yell, as we run down the high street, " could you define your ethnicity for me, I don't want to be accused of being a racist when the police ask me for a description"
What about us eh? a lot of people don't like people from Liverpool (scousers), now I live halfway between Liverpool and Manchester, sometimes if I'm away people say I'm a scouser, I'm not, could that not be argued as some kind of insult? What about calling an Irishman Paddy? or a Scotsman Jock, or a Welshman Taffy, no I think the PC brigade have gone too far in recent years, they have to get involved in things and in most cases make things worse, is the reason for the growing intolerance of immigrants not due in some large part to the way they are treated, or would I perhaps be more accurate in saying, the way we are expected to treat them?
Is it not understandable that there is resentment when people who were born and raised here are unable to get a council house, yet a person who has been here for 5 minutes is given one? Presumably not necessarily because of need, but because of a fear of being accused of racism, if they are not given one.
Recently I was talking to a gay friend, and the subject of gay marriage came up, He was saying that by and large the gay community are not overly bothered by it all, a civil partnership was fine, however it was hijacked by the do gooders who decided that gay people must be totally equal to everyone else, ( remember the Monty Python sketch where Eric Idle wanted to be called Gloria, and have babies, it was pointed out that he physically couldn't have babies as he didn't have a womb, "brothers we shall fight for his right to have a womb," yelled the agitators) a classic case in my opinion of busy bodies interfering in something they shouldn't.
With all the genuine problems in the world today, such as North Korea seemingly hell bent on starting world war 3 with absolutely anyone, wouldn't it make sense to concentrate on the important things in the world? Yes we should catch murderers, rapists paedophiles, drug dealers, etc. Should we be afraid of upsetting someone because of their colour or ethnic background as we do it? NO!
Any thought on this, for an intelligent intellectual debate?
