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Originally Posted by Bluestar
So that's why racists wore the badge "Enoch was right" after reading his speech and used it when attacking non white people? Because of course his speech was not racist at all, it' was merely ethnocentric. That's not racism, that's like believing that white people are more supreme and civilised than others and obviously all the non white people need to be exiled from England because white people can't even get hospital beds, can't send their children to school and that's terrible. So obviously, instead of improving the medical sphere (god no!) we should blame it on the non white people and immigration! We imagined they'd do our dirty work but we didn't think about what happens when they're ill or they have children 
This is what you agree with? You don't admit it's racist because it represents your thoughts completely. Isn't that scary?
Heath sacked Powell after his Rivers of Blood speech, he said it was not needed at a time when race relations were so volatile. |
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Whats been covered up by the BBC is how the government, estate agents and councils were instrumental in ensuring that immigrants only lived in certain ghetto's.
It was impossible for an immigrant to live in any middle class white area because the realtors simply would not sell to them.
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Originally Posted by Bluestar
He encouraged immigration, he spent two years in India, if he was so conscious about cultural differences he would have been better prepared for the outcomes and not turned on the immigrants as soon as he found out he was wrong. He was against Sikh people wearing turbans and said they should assimilate into the British culture. Again, "the immigrants need to be civilised" attitude. I don't see why calling for better healthcare instead of blaming it on the brown and black people is a silly comment.
Anyway, i'm prepared to accept he's not racist, i accept i don't know what his intentions and innermost thoughts were. From what i can see, they look very sketchy. And no, i don't want to label you a racist, i'd like to think the opposite! You seem very ethnocentric though and that's probably why you admire him so much.
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I have no problems doing that.
Anybody who supports Enoch Powell is a racist. PERIOD.