tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post4950817744050885349..comments2024-03-27T09:14:27.496+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: Shelton Mosque Attack and Racist ViolencePhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-17638051200919555672010-12-05T16:43:15.008+00:002010-12-05T16:43:15.008+00:00"Blame the Muslims. It's simple, it's..."Blame the Muslims. It's simple, it's untrue, and yet it appears to chime with some people's experiences."<br /><br />Just a quick point about this, Phil.<br /><br />I just want to emphasize that fascist ideology, even when it grips a large section of people, does not function as some kind of 'false explanation' for their authentic social experience.<br /><br />The point about the white underclass is not that they were victims who then had their victimhood explained to them by fascists, who ascribed its cause to Muslims, the liberal elite, lefties etc.<br /><br />The point is that people already inside a racist viewpoint - churned out mainly by the mass media and not the BNP - were directed to experience their social reality as already victimizing them. In other words, the racist shit comes first and the 'experience of victimhood' second.<br /><br />Anyway, good piece.Callumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-51273611956356119502010-12-05T11:07:33.425+00:002010-12-05T11:07:33.425+00:00The EDL actually wrote to the council where I work...The EDL actually wrote to the council where I work and said if the authority didn't celebrate Christmas they would come and demonstrate in the city. The head of service wrote back saying we intended to celebrate Christmas but wasn't happy at the implied threat.Chrisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-25129411959126678962010-12-04T23:24:17.488+00:002010-12-04T23:24:17.488+00:00Let's not forget the 'furore' of halal...Let's not forget the 'furore' of halal meat served in Stoke schools the BNP have decided to come out with this week. Under the pathetic excuse of 'animal welfare'.Rash Humanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07699489189848970524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-40820184361066067392010-12-04T22:24:28.886+00:002010-12-04T22:24:28.886+00:00Not a great day for the city.
With EDL graffiti a...Not a great day for the city.<br /><br />With EDL graffiti appearing at the end of my street yesterday (not a million miles from the mosque), it really does seem the sands are shifting and British fascism is moving away from suits and electoral "respectability" and heading back into the territory of rioting drunken hooligans and acts of terrorism.<br /><br />There is a rumour circulating I heard today that the mosque has been funded with "taxpayers money" as well, and of course, the damage from this will have to be paid for out of the stretched public purse as well. I wonder where that could have started?<br /><br />On a more general point, I have scanned the internet, and aside from the BBC and local newspaper reports and the usual news agency wire copy, it appears that hardly any national newspaper in England has reported this story AT ALL, in spite of the fact the police have made it clear it was a racially motivated attack. <br /><br />Can you imagine if you had changed some of this story around? Say four young Muslims trying to set fire to a small Christian community church or a a small civic hall?<br /><br />It would be, I believe, top story on the TV news and all over several pages of all the tabloids as evidence of the "terrorist threat" facing Britain, the growing "radicalisation" of the young Muslims, how Labours immigration policy is to blame etc etc and Cameron would be on television pontificating about the need to "crack down" further on whatever it is he felt he needed to.<br /><br />The silence of the tabloids on this attack speaks volumes. They have helped create the conditions for this sort of thing with years of drip feeding nonsensical scare-stories to the public about Islam. Then, when it inevitably comes to pass that some teenagers are infected with poison enough to act on it, the tabloids ignore what they have done as it doesn't fit in with their simplistic and hateful vision of society today.Alex Dawsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14197211489381075789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-29257826356164033442010-12-04T19:04:28.582+00:002010-12-04T19:04:28.582+00:00I certainly hope I don't have to do more in th...I certainly hope I don't have to do more in this vein!!!Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-45405436207370788612010-12-04T02:31:59.513+00:002010-12-04T02:31:59.513+00:00brilliant post, phil, please do more in this vein....brilliant post, phil, please do more in this vein..modernityhttp://modernityblog.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com