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”
Noodlehands
RT @leftfootfwd: Mail back Burley in attack on opening ceremony's 'absurdly unrealistic' mixed-race family http://t.co/i4bBC9bb
Sigil
…and what is really choice is that the people who are most vociferous about having the “rational debate” on immigration and racism are those who believe in a free market economy and tell the chronically unemployed to get on their bikes to find work…. which is what immigrants do… er…
DavidTiley
Only just seen this. The stunning, offensive article the Daily Mail published and then pulled down… http://t.co/1sxebRH4
Happy Hooker
I am sorry to be against most of your comments but the white middle class tax payers who live away from our polluted city’s have had enough of leftie multiculturism. We grew up in an era when imigrants were welcomed most warmly when they integrated to the British way of life. I am afraid that is now frowned upon. And no I am not racist, I married a lovely lady from Nigeria
BiggertiggeR
Of course…integration is the MOST ideal solution to our multicultural project…but the problem IS you see, there are quite a few raging rRACISTS still knocking about and the legacy of their politics of division |IS the ghetto-ising elements we now see up and down the country. Immigrants often react with such behaviour,and one only needs to look to Spain and the tight little POCKETS of Brits who live in them for this reaction.
Its a natural need to be close to the ‘familiar’, and i wonder how many of these British folks are fluent spanish-speakers?…i’m afraid i already know the answer…and it is very few.