Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Curious analogy posted by Richard Seymour
Munira Mirza of the Sp!ked/RCP crowd, and co-author of the phoney Islam-bashing Policy Exchange report last year, defends Boris Johnson's decision to remove the anti-racist component of London's annual 'Rise' festival in the following terms: "We don't have anti-racist fireworks on New Year's Eve and we don't need to organise an anti-paedophile concert to prove our moral credentials on the issue." Let me get this straight. Over 5% of London voters selected a far right racist candidate for mayor. The BNP has councillors across the country, and has received well over 100,000 votes in local elections. In some areas it has received stupendous majorities. And it's not just the BNP. The National Front, more explicitly Nazi than the BNP, made five digit votes in London. This is all in the context of a rising arc of racist violence in the UK. If militant paedophiles had garnered this level of support in the context of a surge of child-molestation, would there be carnivals in the park with a subtle, non-too-explicit message against raping children? Dare I say there might have been even more than that?Labels: bnp scum, boris johnson, london, racism