The Mail went all Aidan Burley last night with an unsubtle race-baiting attack on the Olympics opening ceremony, reports Shamik Das.
.
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”
BiggertiggeR
no you can’t…what you see is navel of Cameron
BiggertiggeR
Ok, i hear what you say, but in my experience the most RABID and unpleasant types of racism stems from the Empire-lovers. This form stems directly from and through notions of white superiority. The Slave trade, which of course was one of our colonial low-points, absolutely informs these morons and directly feeds their feelings of racial hierarchy.
It ISN’T that i’m not aware of the working-class bigotry, but it is the sheer NASTINESS and ugliness of middle-class based arrogance and hatred that really upsets me.
I actually understand many of the problems faced in our inner cities and their estates, what with housing and job shortages etc and i have worked extensively with young people from such areas. The marginalisation experienced there is truly terrible, and yes, it IS easy to understand some of the feelings about immigration that are not entirely P.C.
But our Immigration policies have VERY little to do with such things in reality, yet they DO provide an easy scapegoat when jobs are scarse and houses too.
The thing that i think many people miss is that most of our non-economic immigrants are Asylum Seekers…in that they are escaping truly terrible condition back home, and i really do not think that most of our working classes, if given PROPER information and facts on such matters, really would have much of an issue if they knew the truth about such things.
Instead, it is the FRENZY whipped-up by The Mail etc, and the false impressions peddled by them that seek and succeed in cultivating and maintaining anger towards immigrants as a group. But the vast majority of immigration now is WHITE blokes from EU countries and is economic.
It’s always turned into a thing about black v white…cos they KNOW that such distortions feed into lingering fears passed-down from previous generations who NEVER knew any black people, and who WERE very ignorant of them as people, and so DID hold stereotypical ideas of blackness etc which came informed via Empire…which as i say was BUILT on the backs of the locals and was justified by our grandfathers’ suggestions that people of colour were actually LESS human than white people.
Anonymous
England is a small country, she is far from self sufficient. Adding millions of third world migrants only accentuates problems relating to energy, food & water supply.
The vibrant multi cult Marxist inner cities survive only thanks to government none jobs & welfare, you should fear the day when the state can no longer provide for the masses.
To put it simply: white rural England can cope, the cities can’t.
These are the issues some of us find troubling, regardless of the fact people like yourself label us as “bigots”.
BiggertiggeR
Why don’t people like you ever look at the FACTS!? The VAST majority of immigration in recent years has come from other EU countries and is from WHITE male economic migrants coming-in to take up work….
at least get your facts right…
Anonymous
You’re not listening, the real fact is England can’t provide for these added millions. That isn’t a skin color issue.
Whether they are African, Asian, or east European Slav as I believe you’re referring to, the fact remains: the country is overcrowded with unskilled workers who represent a huge drain on vital resources.
Add to this problem the issue of unchecked birthrates among the most state dependent families and you’ll soon realize we’re heading for a huge disaster.