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Enoch Powell.. Much more to be said
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I know your attack on me is a strategy of deflection. But nevertheless, I'll take the bait. I am Anglo in ethnic origin and my family first came here from Britain in the 1840s. I'm 5th generation white Australian. I'm curious therefore to know how you deduce that I express 'anti Australian racism.. and anti Anglo racism'. Can you cite the words that led you to that weird allegation?
Now to the real debate. No matter how many times you say Enoch Powell was right, the facts of history all go the other way.
Let's have your evidence for your latest claims:
1. "Mass/uncontrolled immigration will lead to 1/ Segregation (it did)". What parts of Britain are segregated?
2. "Race riots (it did)". When was the last race riot in Britain?
As for your ahistorical claim that "... it was not 'immigration' that Powell was opposed to.. it was UNCONTROLLED immigration", you are plain wrong. He was opposed only to immigration from the non-white nations of the old British Empire. You yourself in your first post on this forum linked us to his speeches where he is clear on that point. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LKHAkpv22o&feature=related
He never spoke out about immigration from white Australia,white Canada or white Africa.
No DavidCarp, It was not UNCONTROLLED immigration that Powell opposed. It was immigration of people of colour he opposed. He tried to whip up fear and hatred with claims like this: "In this country in 15 or 20 years time, the black man will have the whip hand over the white man" (Powell 1968).
His racist appeal to impoverished whites had its moment but when people saw it for what it was, he sunk quickly into obscurity. The people of Britain were not fools. They had seen what racist demagogues could do in Europe and wanted none of it.