Despite what the screaming, out of touch Left, or the too often publicly funded racial and communal grievance mongers say or the untrue claims made by the BLM/Marxists that Britain is a ‘racist’ nation. The truth is Britain is not what these groups claim it to be. Britain is after all, the nation that during World War II openly and sometimes aggressively defied the racial segregation policies of Britain’s USA Allies. This was not a defiance that was ordered from on high by politicians or civil servants, it was a defiance that came from below, from the British people themselves.
But we don’t have to go back as far as World War II to show that although individual racialists exist and have always existed, the vast majority of Britons and indeed the culture of Britain itself, is broadly against judging people by the colour of their skin or by their religion or some other aspect of their ethnicity. There have been much more recent incidents that if they occurred in other less enlightened or fair countries could have resulted in aggression being turned against minorities or even constitute some form of pogrom. A case in point is this post by a user of the AARSE or Army rumour service bulletin board.
From Cold Collation over at the Army Rumour Service board
The murder of Lee Rigby was an event that would have ‘proven’ the majority population of the country was just itching to turn on the BAME community – or at least a part of it.
To its credit, the country’s, the majority’s, nothing happened. Not because people weren’t truly appalled but because get this: this is not a vengeful, hateful nation.
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown talked about the ‘backlash’ that Muslims now face because of the Reading stabbings. The woman is trash – not, in case she reads this, because of her ethnicity but because of her attitudes to others. There won’t be a backlash because people aren’t consumed with the issue-driven hate that she is.
With BLM it’s the same: there hasn’t been some great outpouring of hatred. There hasn’t been a backlash.
People are concerned and upset. I’ve spoken to many friends about this, from a cross-section of lives. But there hasn’t been a huge spike in racist attacks on the BAME population.
Why? Because this isn’t a racist country.
Well said there Cold Collation. We’ve known this for a while. We’ve also seen how various communal grievance mongers tried at the time to make the false claim that the murder of Lee Rigby created a tidal wave of ‘Islamophobia’, only to be shown up quite shortly afterwards as the dishonest brokers that they are. There was no backlash against innocent Muslims after the Rigby murder, there might have been some online comments, angry ones I agree, but there was no pogrom against the innocent.
