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By Binoy Kampmark, published 11/8/2011Why is it that the same areas always erupt first, whatever the cause? Tariq Ali,London Review Books, August 9, 2011
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For the record, so called "white people" only represent 20% of the world’s population so I don't think any of these ideas about protecting "Anglo heritage" is either logical or feasible. The anglophiles here need to get over themselves, or travel to another planet. Yes there are ethnic tensions but I don’t think for a moment that retrofitting the planet to match some largely imagined geopolitical ideals based on racial boundaries is the answer. Welcome to the global community guys!
Posted by Rainier, Friday, 12 August 2011 10:22:36 PM
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At least I know what I'm talking about, kman.
>>And by the way Pericles, you described my mention of the French no-go areas " as another fantasy" Yet now you claim to have actually been there after I proved it with the actual French government list.<< The fantasy part is that they are not "no-go areas" at all. Except to you and Daniel Pipes, of course. They are zones that have specific economic needs, for which their local government is given various tax concessions by the State. http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_urbaine_sensible There's a "translate" button for you if you need it. >>And if these no - go areas are so safe, why does the French government list them and warn tourists about them?<< They don't. Another Daniel Pipes fiction. You are very gullible, you know. >>Actually Pericles I hate to use the "L" word but I can see why you would say that you have actually been there to cover your embarrassment.<< That - along with your pathetic attempt to pigeonhole me as a "retired academic" - is so wide of the mark, it's comical. Have you ever actually been to France? Or anywhere overseas, for that matter? >>And in Australia.. Tim Priest in an article for Quadrant Jan.-Feb. 2004... But of course Pericles you would never believe this.<< What has that to do with ZUS? But I guess it was about time to change the subject, wasn't it. Posted by Pericles, Saturday, 13 August 2011 1:35:13 AM
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Hasbeen.
Yeah your generation of Whites love their "coffee coloured" people, it's a Boomer thing. More to the point Boomers love the idea of a great big melting pot, mostly because they don't have to live in a Ghetto full of out of control bi racial kids and deadbeat parents. If racial assimilation was bad for Aboriginals and North Americans explain to me how it can be good for Britons or ethnic White Australians? Posted by Jay Of Melbourne, Saturday, 13 August 2011 6:47:39 AM
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@Rainer,
<< I don’t think for a moment that retrofitting the planet to match some largely imagined geopolitical ideals based on racial boundaries is the answer >> Well, then, I guess you’ll be joining with me in calling for the end of those special Aboriginal territories –ay? Welcome to the global community, Rainer ! Posted by SPQR, Saturday, 13 August 2011 7:19:04 AM
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I'd have to say that I find some of the things being spouted by the self-identified racists on this thread as very disturbing. For example the idea that only people who aren't "white" however they think they can define "white" riot.
There is plenty of evidence that the people doing these things come from all racial groups. For example http://www.smh.com.au/world/stereotype-of-the-underclass-does-not-apply-20110811-1iowa.html. In stigmatising Muslims as a group they pull prison statistics from France, not England to "prove" that Muslims are inherently criminal. In fact, if you look at prison populations anywhere they seem to over-represent particular out groups - blacks and hispanics in the US, Aborigines here - for example. And they neglect the fact that the majority of members of those groups aren't in jail, and often, as in the case of the man in the video I posted above, are upright and moral members of the community. Posted by GrahamY, Saturday, 13 August 2011 8:00:18 AM
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Thanks for that, Hasbeen, you're spot-on. Roll on, the 22nd century.
In a sort of defence of this revolutionary wave of the Dictatorship of the New Lumpen-Proletariat, they could all wave a hypothetical sign saying, 'No Bookshops Were Harmed In Any Way During These Riots.' Joe Posted by Loudmouth, Saturday, 13 August 2011 9:54:48 AM
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