Racist crap on these boards

smoker99

julieq wrote: »

Can't believe I'm agreeing with Dervish and Smoker99

You don't stop extremism by suppressing it, you stop it by engaging in the argument and pointing out how ridiculous the basic premises are. That's what was happening on the Debate HP board, and frankly the BNP were losing the argument.

Did you get Nectar points on those rose-tinted spectacles? :rolleyes:

julieq

You never did answer the question about who is British, did you Smoker99?

Money_Grabber13579

julieq wrote: »

You never did answer the question about who is British, did you Smoker99?

From a tax point of view, it would be those resident and domiciled in the UK, and pay UK tax. There, that's the less controversial explanation.:p

julieq

Quite a few pensioners don't pay tax. By the same token quite a number of illegal immigrants buy stuff and pay VAT. I say kick the grannies out personally, they are PARASITES and we could use their houses to store hundreds of VAT paying Albanians.

*note, content fully certified as IRONIC.

Money_Grabber13579

julieq wrote: »

Quite a few pensioners don't pay tax. By the same token quite a number of illegal immigrants buy stuff and pay VAT. I say kick the grannies out personally, they are PARASITES and we could use their houses to store hundreds of VAT paying Albanians.

*note, content fully certified as IRONIC.

In that case, they'd just have to be resident and domiciled! Seriously though, would you need to hold a British passport in order to be properly classed as British?

tesuhoha

Could someone please define a racist? I mean is it someone who disagrees with immigration because the country is overcrowded, and its resources drained. i.e. all the secondary schools in this area are oversubscribed and there are no school places. Please define a racist because I find it extremely offensive that the term is bandied about so easily and loosely.

Personally, to me a racist is someone who dislikes another race because of their colour/religion, not someone who disagrees with the idea of immigration because they think it bad for the country.

Mr_Mumble

Please, folks, stop conflating immigration with racism.

Money_Grabber13579

tesuhoha wrote: »

Could someone please define a racist? I mean is it someone who disagrees with immigration because the country is overcrowded, and its resources drained. i.e. all the secondary schools in this area are oversubscribed and there are no school places. Please define a racist because I find it extremely offensive that the term is bandied about so easily and loosely.

Personally, to me a racist is someone who dislikes another race because of their colour/religion, not someone who disagrees with the idea of immigration because they think it bad for the country.

The anti-racism brigade would say that is racist because you've have mentioned a different race.:p And I don't understand it. A bit like why I don't understand why all the greens want to storm the power stations and shut them down - do they want to sit in the dark and have no hot meals ever again?:p

sabretoothtigger

Just stick to pure economy threads, racism is unprofitable

lynzpower

misskool wrote: »

I happened to be online and he had already PM-ed me the usual diatribe

Im interested. The use of the word "diatribe" seems to chime with the word " carp" that might have been used in its place.

Now, i have no knowledge of what was contained in that PM, what i DO know is that this board, and throughout MSE is a heavy amount of racism.

Im white british, through & through & IM sickened by it. What must someone who is not of my heritage think?

Just because you dont find it offensive, because you have experienced racism in your own life, surely you have to appreciate that so many of us do?