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[shreena]

Today, I made the slightly disturbing discovery that I don't exist.  It's been a bit of a shock to me to discover this, as I'm sure you can guess.

I certainly feel that people referring to me as "racial foreigner #1264" would not be pejorative at all.  I can also understand that it's necessary to maintain a distinction between me, as a person born

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[kittenista]

Argh. I can't express the raaaage I feel after reading that article. What is wrong with these people? :(

[djm4]

Yes, I saw this yesterday, and seethed a little. Luckily he's currently an irrelevance politically, but I worry that if the recession hits us hard, he'll gain credibility.

Let's remember what Lily Allen thinks of Nick Griffin and his like, though - has music, and is not in any way worksafe if your work objects to swearing. If you listen to it with headphones on don't accidentally sing along with the chorus (like I did).

[ideealisme]

Ugh. I find myself wishing that Mr Griffin and his entire entourage did not exist. His neck looks pretty non-existent for starters.

And how much of Boris Johnson doesn't exist then? One half or one quarter? And does he get extra-racial-foreigner points for his Islamic descent?

Sorry you have to listen to this pernicious nonsense and the hurt that comes out of it. The truth is, most of the people who call themselves stalwart(i.e white) Britishers have DNA that comes from all over the damn place, I remember they did a documentary on it last year.

[realdoll]

Yeah, that article made me seethe as well. I am glad their insanity is being put firmly on record though.

Especially because until you have a bit of a root around in my history, I appear so very very English. Pale, freckled, "posh" accent, tendency to hold tea parties and wear floral frocks.

But half of my grandparents are Irish, which is a bit-awkward-but-I-suppose-acceptable to a xenophobe.

However, my mother - my boarding school educated Burkes Landed Gentry listed pillar of the community mother - has one parent from Norway and one from India. Which explains why she tans so dark, and why she doesn't meet the BNP criteria. British? No, mummy, to claim that is to commit RACIAL GENOCIDE. Who knew??

[biascut]

UGH. Though in some ways, I prefer them when they're being out-and-out racist than when they're "forging links" with established immigrant communities and claiming they don't have a problem with hard-working black people, it's just all these Eastern Europeans or asylum seekers or whatever.