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”
Anonymous
I just say reasonable things and watch as their heads explode over at the Torygraph.
Anonymous
Back in reality, the UK hasn’t had enough houses built even for the White British population since Thatcher’s little attack on council housing.
Anonymous
The Daily Fail rarely looks out the Window.
wg
@BiggertiggeR
I’m slightly amused by this assumption of a generally rural racist population as opposed to a urban proletariat non-racist population; believe me, it ain’t so.
Racism is everywhere – people just know how and when to hide it, but if you work amongst a group of manual workers in shipyards or on building sites you’ll hear plenty of racist remarks.
Immigration and migrant workers became a major issue over the last 13 years, and it is easy for some to completely ignore the disenfranchised on our housing estates, but ignoring and lecturing them is not going to make the problem go away.
We also have to remember – the ‘disenfranchised of Tottenham’ consisted of all races.
There is also a perception of now-accepted multi-culturism that is just not evident – “white flight” is a well documented example of this – the sainted Trevor Phillips has even addressed this issue of ghettoisation.
And one more thing – we don’t value free speech; there are people in prison and waiting to go to trial for racist speech.
I don’t like overtly racist insults, I find it boorish in the extreme, but I don’t believe that people should be locked up and lose their jobs because of them.
Patrick
I can see a little bit of white spittle in the corner of your mouth…