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El Junglero's avatar

It really got cranked up over in the US with the arrival on the scene of Obama, although I suspect it started much earlier than that. Any opposition to him was crushed by the total fear of being labeled as a racist and not liking him 'because he's black'. Just the threat of that would have most people on the back foot right away.

No motherfucker, I don't hate him because of his race, I hate him because he's a fucking commie.

And the rest, as they say, is history.

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Writing the Wrong's avatar

The case of the Syrian asylum seeker is a particularly frustrating episode from the perspective of a working-class British native. In the video, the attacker is clearly heard saying repeatedly, "what are you saying now?" You don't need to be from the British working class to know this, but any person from that class can tell you that if someone is attacking someone else, and they say "what are you saying now," that means that the person being attacked did something to provoke it. Violence is rarely the right response to hearing words you don't like, so I cannot say whether the Syrian got what he deserved. However, it is undoubtedly the case that he said *something* provocative, at least. What is frustrating is the complete lack of interest by the mainstream elite in assessing or discussing what that might have been.

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