Originally Posted by
Scouse
It needs to be discussed. The rise of the BNP and thier ilk is frightening. Their support is based on ignorance (in the true sense of the word).
We beat them in the seventies and we will do it again.
I have often challenged people when they come out with racist remarks. The funniest was a gay man in work who was bemoaning the fact that the council was slow in processing his claim for rent allowance and he came out with the old chestnut 'if I was an immigrant they would give me everything'
I pointed out that perhaps a a member of a persecuted minority he may like to think about how another persecuted minority would feel, ie immigrants.
He just mumbled and walked away.