Saturday, June 28, 2008
Racism - a strange situation
The London Times says: "The police are now required to treat any criminal matter that the victim claims was racially motivated as being racially motivated, full stop. Even if it palpably isn’t. If the “victim” says it’s racist, then it is racist, and there’s an end to it." The Equality and Human Rights Commission, however, says in the same article “We want people to be allowed to speak freely....You should be okay to say anything you like so long as it’s not calculated to offend.”
IMO: It sounds on the face of it, to be a suggestion by the London Times that recent Labor legislation is stifling free speech. There has been a lot of stifling of free speech by both Tories and Labor, sometimes out of simple ignorance and sometimes for personal financial profit. But if there is some literal truth in what the Times says, it is a very strange situation.
The current matter of concern had of course been McGrath's resignation, which was stubbornly resisted by the mayor, some say, until David Cameron intervened and called on Boris to rid his regime of this "stench of decay"...... McGrath was forced to go. His defence was rather feeble: McGrath's words, said the mayor, had been misinterpreted, taken out of context. But Boris's campaign had also, for instance, chosen the recalcitrant Lee Jasper as the stick to beat the hell out of multiculturalism. His victory confirmed - or so he apparently thought - the end of multiculturalism, with adverse consequences for our communities.
So now the "New Statesman" says "Boris's regime will pursue this hostility to the black community relentlessly. Sometimes it will be overtly and at other times it will be covertly."
IMO: Lets see how it all turns out, amusing unless it matters to you, and to be fair I doubt if it matters to Tory toffs, though it may deeply offend some would be Tory voters.
The London Times says: "The police are now required to treat any criminal matter that the victim claims was racially motivated as being racially motivated, full stop. Even if it palpably isn’t. If the “victim” says it’s racist, then it is racist, and there’s an end to it." The Equality and Human Rights Commission, however, says in the same article “We want people to be allowed to speak freely....You should be okay to say anything you like so long as it’s not calculated to offend.”
IMO: It sounds on the face of it, to be a suggestion by the London Times that recent Labor legislation is stifling free speech. There has been a lot of stifling of free speech by both Tories and Labor, sometimes out of simple ignorance and sometimes for personal financial profit. But if there is some literal truth in what the Times says, it is a very strange situation.
The current matter of concern had of course been McGrath's resignation, which was stubbornly resisted by the mayor, some say, until David Cameron intervened and called on Boris to rid his regime of this "stench of decay"...... McGrath was forced to go. His defence was rather feeble: McGrath's words, said the mayor, had been misinterpreted, taken out of context. But Boris's campaign had also, for instance, chosen the recalcitrant Lee Jasper as the stick to beat the hell out of multiculturalism. His victory confirmed - or so he apparently thought - the end of multiculturalism, with adverse consequences for our communities.
So now the "New Statesman" says "Boris's regime will pursue this hostility to the black community relentlessly. Sometimes it will be overtly and at other times it will be covertly."
IMO: Lets see how it all turns out, amusing unless it matters to you, and to be fair I doubt if it matters to Tory toffs, though it may deeply offend some would be Tory voters.
# posted by uv : 11:23 PM
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