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People getting racially abused because of the referendum result

I was round my mum's a couple of days ago and caught a few minutes of the Wright Stuff when she was watching it. They had Lee Hurst on and he was all but justifying the attack on the basis of 'young men always stick together in their own groups', fucking infuriating. I had forgotten about it but this thread had reminded me so I went to have a look at his twitter and here is doing the same thing again more or less, downplaying attacks.



He wasn't brought up on it either.
 
J Ed said:
I was round my mum's a couple of days ago and caught a few minutes of the Wright Stuff when she was watching it. They had Lee Hurst on and he was all but justifying the attack on the basis of 'young men always stick together in their own groups', fucking infuriating. I had forgotten about it but this thread had reminded me so I went to have a look at his twitter and here is doing the same thing again more or less, downplaying attacks.



He wasn't brought up on it either.
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Lee would not use the same logic if the attack were to have been a group of Polish lads on a couple of English/British men. I know this for sure. I have explored, thought about and directly dealt with these double standards and excuses for as long as I remember 'thinking' about the world and people around me. Fuck him.
 
ska invita said:
PArticularly in the last 100 years or so....

Id expect it was knocked together quickly by local residents, and so wasnt massively thought out - a quick reaction.

I guess the SWP-front anti-racism campaigns wont get involved as SWP line is firmly pro-Brexit and this just tarnishes that side of their daydream pathetic plans
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Start of the March here.

 
J Ed said:
I was round my mum's a couple of days ago and caught a few minutes of the Wright Stuff when she was watching it. They had Lee Hurst on and he was all but justifying the attack on the basis of 'young men always stick together in their own groups', fucking infuriating. I had forgotten about it but this thread had reminded me so I went to have a look at his twitter and here is doing the same thing again more or less, downplaying attacks.



He wasn't brought up on it either.
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I agree only to the extent that I would like to see solidarity actions that were significantly broader than national groups on their own (I'm sure there were some nonPoles there too, but not many tbh).

I did read somewhere that there is a perception amongst "parts of the black community" that Poles are racists, a perception which blocks solidarity. No idea how true that is... Can't remember where I read it now.

Polish is now the Uks second language and Poles are the largest migrant nationality in the Uk...
 
I don't think there's a problem with observing that there's a strong vein of nationalism in Poland itself, the government they voted in last year is clearly anti immigration homophobic anti abortion etc. Anyway, that silent march seems to have been about paying respect to the murdered man more than about some general anti-racism statement?
 
butchersapron said:
UAF been quietly sidelined for this. This is full get establishment figures on board style. Non-shouty. Even pretend shouty.
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The whole point of UAF was to go beyond the ranks of the old ANL and be a bit more 'respectable' and get establishment figures on board. I guess now the UAF has dwindled somewhat, it's time to pull the same trick again?
 
emanymton said:
The whole point of UAF was to go beyond the ranks of the old ANL and be a bit more 'respectable' and get establishment figures on board. I guess now the UAF has dwindled somewhat, it's time to pull the same trick again?
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Well, it's also to tie into the Corbyn stuff - he's actually the main speaker at a event coming up quite soon - and then to anything that comes out of that. And, of course, after the rape cover up UAF was probably too tainted to continue properly - at least as a recruitment path into the party for the young.
 
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