nourishing obscurity

[Britain and the breakup of England]

Summer patriot, winter soldier, via Lord T, writes:

Racism used to mean that the racist was a person who devoutly believed that his racial or ethnic group was superior to another, or, indeed, superior to all others, and was usually a concept antecedent to an attempt at domination or even the elimination of another race or ethnic group.

Thus, in Europe in the 1850s, we saw the spectacle of European anthropologists and phrenologists, and perhaps even hairdressers, pontificating upon the superiority of the white race over the African race, with skull measurements and aesthetic observations as collateral evidence of the proposition.

It was the foundation of empire. It was an intellectual and psychological make weight to excuse the conquest and domination of another group or society and, the Europeans, not missing a turn, turned the same attitudes towards others, including Jews, as an excuse for anti semitism.

Hitler’s Germans were not the only anti semites in Europe: it was a European sin, and the peculiar conceits underlying its underpinnings were applied the world over.

That is not the application of the word this day.

As used in contemporary parlance, the word is applied specifically to those who resist immigration of foreign nationals into their native lands (such word usage, indeed, in and of itself might be termed as “racist” by those who wield it as an offensive intellectual sword), such foreign nationals almost exclusively of Islamic, Muslim or Arabic origin.

Those who usually raise such objections are European nationalists and Americans who oppose Islamic immigration into Europe and America, and such persons with a nationalistic bent are decried and derided as racists.

The Brown government’s recent admission that they had tried to socially engineer Britain in such a way that it had to become completely multicultural smacks of 30s imperialist movements and the Empire in this case is the European Union.  As ardent Europhiles, Labour had to necessarily support EU policy and EU policy is a Europe without borders.

The result of this is, by definition, that the poorer countries are going to lose hundreds of thousands of unemployed people to the richer countries and the strain on the economies of those richer countries, added to the engineered economic collapse, is going to throw indigenous people out of work and in the long term, create a new native underclass, particularly if accompanied by a socialist society, which we are pretty much in now – no incentive, welfare state, nanny state, draconian laws having zero input from us.

The natural corollary to this is civil unrest, with the bully boys being first onto the streets with the students, then the politically committed, until one day, miraculously, the messiah appears and leads Europe to a stamping out of all unrest.  Though the streets will once again be safe, the state now has your number.

We can’t help the rest of Europe, sadly but we can start to help ourselves ensure that this does not happen here.   As an absolute minimum, the people must have a voice in our relationship with the EU, before anything else can be achieved.

One way is to sign up at the Albion Alliance and through sheer numbers, together with the other movements also going on, we can stop this democratic deficit in its tracks.

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