Yesterday, Donald Trump retweeted this by Katie Hopkins and the Tory Party leadership contenders refused to condemn it:
You could call it dog-whistle racism but then the idea of a dog whistle is that it has a certain subtlety which appeals to your target audience whilst allowing plausible deniability. This is more like a klaxon.
Katie Hopkins is a well-known controversialist here who made her name being a love-to-hate character on the Apprentice and later became a newspaper columnist for the Sun. Her contributions include wishing migrants to be shot down by gunboats and that we need a 'final solution' from British Muslims. I fully believe that she is a performance BS artist like Milo and Ann Coulter, though her followers do take her seriously.
Since Trump's retweet, only Rory Stewert - the moderate no-hoper contender - has said that this was wrong. Jeremy Hunt has come out and said he 'agrees with the sentiment' though 'wouldn't have used the same words'. Others have refused to condemn it. A lot of these politicians are affluent centre-right establishment types and have never supported anything so explicitly racist before so what is going on?
I think its two things. Firstly, its the typical fealty that UK politicians show to American power. Britain is no longer an imperial super-power so the best it can do is be BFF to American and do everything America says so that we can feel we have a 'special relationship' with them. This attitude is particularly prevalent on the right of British politics though it did also (for obvious and awful reasons) include Tony Blair.
The second thing is that Hunt and others are vying to get in the final two of their party leadership contest. Boris Johnson is certain to get that far but there will be one other contender in the final two who will be voted leader by the Conservative Party membership. That said membership selectorate is very right-wing and the 'calculation' that Hunt is making is that if he can 'out populist' Boris, then he stands a chance.
What of standards though? 'Londonistan' evoked the idea that Muslim immigrants are taking over the capital city. There is also an attempt to link immigrants with a crime epidemic. Not only does this lack an evidence basis, but it heightens tensions around issues of race. The UK Conservative Party is heading in a nationalist-right direction.
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That is really low but they could probably go lower and will. A racist can change but only if they have an awakening, there's a ex white supremacist who does that in Indiana, we need more of him and until we have more of what he's doing to deradicalize people, we'll always have those types around.... forever scare mongering.
In Shane's words since he was born, he was taught that the enslavement and extermination of all nonwhites will usher in the second coming of Christ.
That's what white supremacists teach their children.
[b]The point is[/b] while this woman I'm sure wasn't exactly taught that, I'm 90% sure she was raised in a similar way and until we have actual deradicalization policies going on it's going to continue.
@SatanBurger I don't know anything about white supremacy until I read that long article.Thanks for sharing this. They seems worst, killing,hurting and hating anyone who is not white, even if those non whites worships their white god Jesus. At least , Islam will accept any one from any race who bend over to that Arabic God and embrace Arabic culture.
I am not supporting Islamic ideology here because that never gonna happen after I read about the things they have done to Yazidi women and children without any guilt.
@LoneKnight Nothing absolves Katie Hopkins commentary since most of the victims of Muslim extremism are other Muslims. White evangelists know who they're siding with when they purposely fan the flames.
@SatanBurger I agree with most of the things you said except one.
On global level, most of the victims of Islamic terrorists are non Muslims. Have you read anything like this?.
Islamist have been systematically killing non Muslims from countries like Pakistan,Bangladesh,Africa etc for a very long time. The Arab paid western media's won't report those crimes.
@LoneKnight I know it's kind of a few days late for this but I just fact checked your post about forced sterilizations and turned out there's been no such investigation and no doctor confessed. I'm not trying to undermine you but I do value truth.
It's based off rumors, we have no idea who started it and could have been used to further an agenda.
I did find evidence that people were and are specifically targeting Muslims, one Muslim woman got in trouble for wearing a shirt with a ship's helm on it, which Buddhists said was mocking their religion but it wasn't. Another man got it for having a broken memory card in his pocket. Police weren't investigating a monk threatening to kill innocent Muslim men, women and children based off the forced sterilization rumor and in fact the police are doing next to nothing to prevent mob attacks.
All I'm saying is that I believe all of this is mass hysteria based on actions of an extreme few and mass hysteria can lead to abuse rather quickly because people's fear responses are heightened.
Still not an excuse to what Katie Hopkins said though.
In a country where Muslims are minorities, they always cries victims and accuse the majority, in order to cover up how non Muslims are being treated in Muslim majority country.
This have been happening to Hindus and Sikh women in Pakistan for generations.
During partition of Pakistan, there were 20 percent of Hindus there.Now there are less than 3 percent.The same thing happening to Hindu population in Bangladesh.
But in India, Muslim population are steadily increasing and now their population is about 300 million.Yet Indian Muslims constantly accuse Hindus of being intolerant.Indian liberal medias often accuse Hindus for the crimes that were committed by Muslims.
Yes, I agree.Katie Hopkins shouldn't have said that.
Afghanistan used to be a Hindu and Buddhist majority country.Now there are only Muslims because they committed genocide on those Dharmic followers for generations and they ensured only Muslims population grows.
Abrahmic Muslims and Christians hate Dharmic followers and Christian controlled western media's always supported Muslims when Muslims committed genocide on Hindus and other Dharmic followers for generations.Another reason they kept quiet is because those westerners don't want to anger Islam and lose their trillion dollars business deals with oil rich Islamic countries like Saudi Arabia etc. Now that Muslims have started to infest western countries. I am seeing a lot of westerners , especially whites are complaining about Muslims.Sometimes, I find this hilarious.
I know a lot of things about Islam and Christian west after I started to embrace my Hindu identity and learn the true history of India. I know how Muslims have been trying to destroy Hinduism in India for 1000 years and how Christians are trying to convert Hindus and other Dharmic followers for generations. By the way, have you ever seen a Hindu Jesus?.
They used this kind of tactics to lure and convert Hindus.
Here is another thing.During colonial rule, British encouraged Muslims to feel superior than Idol worshipping Hindus. So from Karmic perspective , the time have come for them to know Islam better.
