#BNP #BBCqt > tweets of interest
@hannahnicklin My 2p: Putting the #BNPonBBC doesn’t legitimise them,1000s of people voting for them does.People are racist, we need to face this in public. +
@autobees First car crash point. Jack Straw should not be trying to compete with the BNP on who has the toughest immigration policy. Argh! #bbcqt +
@syrianews Warsi calls for limits on numbers of immigrants. Idiot. She is playing the BNP’s game. Idiot. +
@pickledpolitics Sayeeda Warsi and Jack Straw position on immigration is the same. She just said it better #BBCQT +
@syrianews They are trying to be better immigrant-bashers than the BNP. This is how low British politics has sunk. #bbcqt +
@pickledpolitics But the Conservative Party’s policy on immigration is the same as Labour’s. #BBCQT +
@pickledpolitics Chris Huhne sounding a bit hawkish on immigration… unusual for him. Suspect they’re all trying to outmaneuver Griffin #BBCQT +
@hannahnicklin #bbcqt I’m so bored with this fallacious anti-immigration rhetoric -a debate entirely cultivated by lazy right wing media +
@hannahnicklin And it hurts that Labour can’t acknowledge how bloody necessary immigration is to our ageing population, and groaning public sector #bbcqt +
@syrianews Griffin: we are the aborigines here (FACTUALLY BOLLOCKS) +
@LostLondon Is anyone going to tell them all idiots they would not be so many immigrants if they stopped messing other countries up?! #bbcqt +
@hannahnicklin OK, according to the internet, if a ‘proper Britain’ has to be as of 17000 years ago, we need to be Ukranian http://bit.ly/2Wp6j8 #bbcqt +
@autobees All of the parties are tripping over the topic of immigration to show they have the toughest policy & are pandering to BNP tactics. +
@autobees The most challenging questions on immigration came from patriotic British Black/Asian people. Interesting. +
@autobees One of the moments where the audience laughed & heckled the most: indigenous English are like Indigenous Red Indians & were there 1st. +
@jamiepotter RT @paulbradshaw: If you think #bbcqt somehow burst the BNP bubble remind yourself of these reactions http://bit.ly/3yMOMa +
@ninapower Never mind Griffin, the whole debate took place on racist terms. Fucking depressing. +
@kpunk99 RT @bat020 Warsi’s drivel demonstrates how the very presence of the BNP pulls political discourse sharply to the right #bbcqt +
@kpunk99 Of course the reverse is also true. Reason that the BNP has gained ground is how right wing the mainstream discourse on immigration is. +
@nextleft #bbcqt ‘cast conventional politicians in a largely favourable light which they have not enjoyed for many a month’ John Kampfner, guardian +
![I don’t find this funny or clever at all. A hodge-podge of perspectives lumped under one self-righteous, third-worldist banner that I’m really getting tired of, especially after following the overblown outcry on the Egyptian twitterverse over @jmayton’s light-hearted (in bad taste? ill-advised? you be the judge) jab at Egypt’s dietary habits. [note: I have never read any of his articles & therefore don’t know if his critics already have gripes with him, but that’s besides the point.]
I think there’s a real danger that leaving this kind of lazy identitarianism unchecked would leave our very just causes defenseless, shored up only with absolute tripe [whenever you speak of a cause, you’re not actually fighting for it; you’re creating a discourse around it in which a fight is legitimated] when we elevate ourselves - based on what? Our brownness? - as some kind of sanctum sanctorum, not to be touched, not to be part of normal human relation. Cultural appropriation by profiteering sharks is one thing; holding white people to impossible standards simply because they are white, or because they are “foreign” is just embarassing. They can ‘find themselves’ in their ‘ethnic’ doodads all they want, as long as it means I too can find myself in balkan beat, or celtic punk or viking metal. The crimes of orientalists do not give us a free pass to be assholes.
Don’t be marginal.
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