Hi, Folks...
I agree with S t r a y!
My country, Britain, is being destroyed by immigration, along with quite a few other things currently sucking us dry, such as the EU.
In the dividing up of the UK's resouces, the slices are now much thinner than the knife. Britain is now struggling just to remain Britain!
But, to be fair about this skin colour thing: If 1.5 MILLION white North Americans, 1.5 MILLION white Canadians and 1.5 MILLION white Australians came to my country and started sucking dry the country's resources, I'd be just as angry and just as keen to see the immigration gates slammed closed. Even if they are/were not, I consider all three groups of immigrants to be the same race as me. I can't see the actual significance of skin colour in that, because their skin colour and mine would be identical. My feeling would be the same.
I also find myself, occasionally, having racist feelings. I acknowledge them. I dislike them. I mention them to the world and, if the world doesn't like it, they can usually go straight to Hell. For as long as I refuse to act with violence or abuse in the name of those feelings, I have a completely clear conscience regarding them.
I don't understand them! I don't know why they are there! I can't find a sensible place in a human's life wherein they'd fit, or have even the slightest worth. I am currently anti-immigration and I am sick to death of seeing foreigners being handed privileged treatment, while non-immigrants are pushed further and further down the ladder of permissions, finances, jobs, houses and local authority favour.
Racism is probably an old, and currently pointless, prehistoric reflex, which would go some way to explaining why it's so powerful and lives on for so long. Once, in prehistoric times, our genes programmed us to not intermingle/breed with any bipeds that looked too much unlike us - it might cause the end of the human race! Bye, bye perpetuation of the species. That only applies if scientists are right about it, though. If so, Nature probably got it wrong back then, and is probably getting it wrong, now. There are truly three completely useless things in the known Universe - my man-boobs and racism! It fills no gap, satisfies no need and has no civilised application...that's all there is, and will ever be, to it.
Some people are more in touch with their old, prehistoric reflexes and so, for some, racism is felt and acted upon, not just latently buried (where it probably belongs).
Sometimes, I think that it's even possible that racism is an actual mental illness, although it might prove difficult to provide evidence of that. If some among you feel that I'm pushing my luck by guessing that racism is possibly a mental illness, I apologise, but I still go on thinking that it is so.
In my old home town, I had around 24 friends and only 4 of those were white. The rest were Pakistani Asians. They used to talk to me about THEIR RACIST FEELINGS, also, against white folk in this country. I didn't mind. I didn't even care, much. We used to skit at each other, swapping my English accent for their Pakistani (Punjabi/Urdu) accents, etc., right in the middle of a diner. The others, there, loved it. They'd even join in.
What racism really is may never be known to us, but, because I'd chosen not to use violence and abuse to voice it, I slipped into politics and campaigning, instead, and that involves my awareness of immigration's damaging effect on our social structure, here, and on our resources.
I think racism is just a symptom of general political and social unrest and how angry an individual feels about that unrest's effects on them. I don't reject my racism, but I do think of it as just a maladaptive error in judgement, in the absence of being able to find the real cause for inner anger.
But, this much is true: Britain is dying and some percentage of the current immigration rate should be kept in mind as one of the heaviest reasons for that. Britain is sinking!
If racists from all areas of the skin colour spectrum could just get together and calmly, rationally voice this racist thing out, that would make a fantastic Earth event, in itself.
PLEASE NOTE: Threads like this can be severe flashpoints on any message board/forum. Pertinent and constructive comments are welcomed. Heated debates can get a little hard to handle. I have given my input and opinion. I will not further expand on them, or be coaxed into justifications of any form. Quotable insults will not be left in place, and I will not allow them to involve me in heated exchange. This might even be my only post in this thread.
The woman in the video? I condemn what she did. I refuse to condemn how she feels.
Ian.
