The Mail went all Aidan Burley last night with an unsubtle race-baiting attack on the Olympics opening ceremony, reports Shamik Das.
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The Mail went all Aidan Burley last night with an unsubtle race-baiting attack on the Olympics opening ceremony.
The paper said the Nazi party Tory MP was “right to point out on Twitter that it was a load of ‘leftie multicultural crap'”, hitting out at the “absurdly unrealistic” representation of a “mixed-race middle-class family in a detached new-build suburban home”, the “politically correct agenda in modern Britain” and the “multicultural equality agenda”.
They then amended some of those offensive lines – within 20 minutes of the initial post – but not before freelance writer John Walker had screengrabbed the initial article.
Here are the original despicable paragraphs in full – printed by a national newspaper, in Britain, in 2012:
“It was the absurdly unrealistic scene – and indeed one that would spring from the kind of nonsensical targets and equality quotas we see in the NHS – showing a mixed-race middle-class family in a detached new-build suburban home, which was most symptomatic of the politically correct agenda in modern Britain.
“This was supposed to be a representation of modern life in England but it is likely to be a challenge for the organisers to find an educated white middle-aged mother and black father living together with a happy family in such a set-up.
“Almost, if not every, shot in the next sequence included an ethnic minority performer. The BBC presenter Hazel Irvine gushed about the importance of grime music (a form of awful electronic music popular among black youths) to east London. This multicultural equality agenda was so staged it was painful to watch.
“And Conservative MP Aidan Burley was right to point out on Twitter that it was a load of ‘leftie multicultural c**p’. Yet predictably he has been castigated by Twitter’s Guadanista [sic] brigade.
“Unfortunately the kind of politically driven multiculturalism we saw last night is the kind of social engineering we have come to expect.”
Just. In. Credible. Just when you might think the Mail couldn’t possibly get any worse.
• Wrong again: The Daily Mail claim wind farms change the weather 2 May 2012
• “According to my tax breakdown, Daily Mail readers are the biggest scroungers” 20 Mar 2012
• The Mail’s rent-a-rev called for gays to be tattooed with health warnings 27 Oct 2011
• Coogan: “If the Daily Mail went to the wall tomorrow I’d be delighted” 13 Oct 2011
• Exposed: The Mail-inspired Dispatches hatchet job on Blair 26 Sep 2011
As someone tweeted on Friday night in response to Burley’s outrage (and even more so in the case of the Mail given their history):
“Did you prefer the opening ceremony of the Berlin Olympics?”
106 Responses to “Mail back Burley in attack on opening ceremony’s “absurdly unrealistic” mixed-race family”
liane gomersall
RT @leftfootfwd: Mail back Burley in attack on opening ceremony's "absurdly unrealistic" mixed-race family http://t.co/ea62mGU6
Susie Gilbert
Just extraordinary – Daily Mail on the Opening Ceremony: http://t.co/u9Avn50q They seem to hate everything my part of London stands for.
Anonymous
The single most contentious part of your overlong rant is this: “So no, the English are NOT a race, and we are not exclusively Germanic. I suspect we’d find it difficult to justify a description of the English as a distinct ethnic group.”
You need to take a long hard look at yourself and realize what you’re saying. Your attempt to portray the English as a mongrelized mixed race is scandalous, you’re denying our racial & genetic identity.
Many of us will oppose these outrageous attempts to redefine ethnicity, you cannot simply erase 1500 years of Anglo-Saxon history.
To blow your anti Anglo-Saxon ideas out of the water, try this: would you say to any of the Japanese, Aborigines, Indians or whoever else that they’re in fact not a race and should actually work against racial preservation?
Taken at face value your vision of future society appears to be particularly genocidal, expressing your desire to see a new breed of mixed people in a single giant melting pot.
I believe in preserving multiple different ethnicities & dna, mixing us all is a crime against humanity.
Although I doubt we’ll ever come to any sort of agreement on the subject, the ideological divide prevents any such mutual understanding.
Lee Hyde
“The single most contentious part of your overlong rant is this: “So no, the English are NOT a race, and we are not exclusively Germanic. I suspect we’d find it difficult to justify a description of the English as a distinct ethnic group.”
It’s hardly contentious. In fact it’s long been widely held racial categorization is a fruitless (and oft ideologically motivated) endeavour.
It is your own obsession with race and (ostensibly) genetic ‘purity’ which is contentious. Such attitudes are largely shunned on polite society, and rightly so given their pedigree. It’s quite clear that you don’t have the slightest clue of the difference between race, ethnicity, culture and language. Thus there is no point of discussing this further with you, except to address this little gem:
“Taken at face value your vision of future society appears to be particularly genocidal, expressing your desire to see a new breed of mixed people in a single giant melting pot. ”
I have no interest in seeing a ‘new breed’ of mixed people. The language you use here is very telling and frankly paints you in a very bad light (1930s-Daily-Mail-reader bad light). Britain, like much of the world is, has been and will always been a veritable melting pot of different ethnic groups and individuals from far a field. The majority of historical migration has not occurred as great waves of militaristic or aggressive usurpation, which I suppose explains why the various non-Germanic post-1066 contributions to our gene pool* and culture (which are significant) seem to have escaped your notice (you seem like someone likely to fetishise militarism, warfare and empire).
My earlier examples (of my own joint English, Irish and Italian ancestry, and Iain Duncan Smith’s joint English and Japanese ancestry) were intended to open your eyes to the fact that at best, we share a linguistic and cultural link to the Germanic tribes (and not by any estimation, an exclusive one) to wit you identify. Our ‘English’ genetic make-up, however, is a far more diverse mix. With wave after wave of economic, political and other migration contributing to our gene pool*, the migrants themselves bringing their own traditions to these isles (e.g. battered and chips; brought to Britain by Eastern European jews) and assimilating into English culture (whilst enabling an interchange of cultural values and traditions that has contributed to English culture every bit as much as the long dead Germanic tribes that you so fetishise).
* Your obsession with genetic ‘purity’ as rather odd, given that the scientific consensus is that broader, more diverse genetic pools are by far the more healthy (see out-breeding). Your attitude to genetics is plainly absurd and founded entirely in ideology, with not even the slightest glimmer of evidence or reason.
“I believe in preserving multiple different ethnicities & dna, mixing us all is a crime against humanity.”
You are a gibbering idiot who clearly has no idea what the words/phrases ‘ethnicity’, ‘DNA’ and ‘crime against humanity’ mean.
Anyway, I’ll finish ‘rant’ and bid you a not-so-fond farewell. I pray you never gain any position of authority or power, for all of our sakes. TTFE
Anonymous
No, a tiny number of people will, as usual, be violent thugs, trying to preserve a myth which they take as collective dogma.
It’s the same story over and over again. Fortunately, usually you’re your own worst enemies.
(Witness the constant infighting on the far right)