"UK 'must tackle ethnic tensions'" - BBC report

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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    surferdude wrote:
    Fuck that. They're in Britain because and only because they chose to move there. Laying all responsibility for their actions on historical events that happened before many of them were born is the worst type of cop out. I have too much respect for people to think thta little of them.

    Did the victims of Hurricane Katrina have the choice to move to the Houston Astrodome? Barbara Bush seemed to think so.

    Before you say that the cataclysmic, slow-flooding economic effect of colonialism is just metaphorical, and doesn't compare with a natural disaster situation, think. There are a lot of people fucked over, for generation after generation, by colonialism. The spiritual and psychological levees broke a long, long time ago for many of these people.

    Rhetorical arguments aside, I'm happy with putting up a further reading list, to encourage informed and inspired counter-arguments to my point.

    Cheers,
    Fins

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