| Topic: | Re:Re::Koran bashers @the Oaks | |
| Posted by: | Robin Taylor | |
| Date/Time: | 07/11/09 18:06:00 |
| "I am getting sick of the choke hold of Political Correctness, which prevents people from speaking their minds, I understand how words and intonations can be used as a weapon, but the level it has got to has most (well I speak for myself) ppl censoring the way they would talk normally. I feel that this is a thought crime of the highest order, and the clever thing is that TPTB have managed to indoctrinate us to such a degree that we have become our own self censors in fear of stepping on some other cultures toes. Don't get me started...;) John, You're so right. Once, myself and an Indian woman from my place of work went on an Anti Nazi League rally in Welling. We wanted to march past the BNP HQ (around which there had been four racist murders) but we found that we didn't have this right of freedom of speech because the police wouldn't let us. Some ANL marchers decided they would not put up with this, and running battles began between mounted police and demonstrators. Myself and the Indian woman thought "let's not get involved in this", so we took our ANL lolly pops and walked about a half mile to a remote location where we found a pub. In the pub, were some young white men with close cropped hair watching the Saturday afternoon's football on the box. Despite not knowing me, a few of them decided to take it upon themselves to let me know that they did not approve of me "f***ing a P*k*", as they put it. After ten minutes in the pub, during which I was twice called a "scumbag" - and had an item of property smashed - myself and the Indian woman decided to leave our drinks and vacate the pub. Of course, the odds were not good so I did not answer back those who called me a "scumbag", because in what you describe as the "Choke Hold of Political Correctness" I was, as you put it, "prevented from speaking my mind". So even though I (like them) was white English, they were of a totally different culture to me. So I had to become, as you yourself put it, John, "my own self censor for fear of stepping on some other culture's toes". I was a true victim of the "thought police". To the person on this thread who earlier commented about me being against freedom of expression because I did a petition against Nick Griffin appearing on Question Time, my reply is simple: people of his ilk don't believe in my freedom of expression, why the hell should I agree with his? Further more, who pays the price for the BNP's freedom of expression? A British-born Punjabi friend of mine who was called a "foreigner" by another motorist, when she was trying to park her car whilst visiting friends in rural Berkshire, believes this happened to her because only a couple of weeks earlier the BNP had gained publicity from their 2-seat victory in the Euro elections. Unlike my friend, many of those who smugly argue for "freedom of expression" are not among those who have to face the consequences. |