You knew what her view was going to be, right?
This is a legacy of a much wider erosion of the ways in which we can come together as a collective around things that aren’t just about competitions with other races for the prize of most subjugated. A rapacious individualisation is the legacy of the smashing of places to gather, where people could once identify material concerns (rather than race hallucinations) and collectively bargain for their delivery. The trade union movement is weakened, labour itself is changing into something more precarious and atomised. Deindustrialisation wrecked working-class systems and the halo of social and cultural life around them. Austerity undermined the ability to commune in free spaces and mix socially, in youth clubs, in family support centres, and drove people indoors and on to their phones and into a state of hermetic siege.
All of this is happening against a backdrop of scarcity of all sorts. Not just cost of living crises, but more stressed housing, healthcare and state schooling, which intensify that state of siege. This is not to suggest that actual racism, pure and uncomplicated, is not a factor, but that its activation into something violent and aggressive is more easily achieved in such conditions. The correctives to these conditions are hampered by the long march of modernity and by governments, both Labour and Conservative, that have resigned themselves to the inevitability of austerity. And with that has come a failure to articulate a new class politics, one in which people no longer array themselves in terms of work or industry, but would recognise themselves as being on the sharp end of a capital- and asset-owning class that privatises, gouges and exploits. However, that dynamic is never identified. Appealing to vague groups such as “working people” isn’t going to cut it.
Rampant individualism and neoliberal, capitalist, austerity. ‘S obvious, innit?
And, of course, she assumes that the cold, pure, rage, is about the murder itself. Which, well, no, it ain’t. Murders happen, they’re vile and appalling when they happen and that’s that. We all know they happen. What has got people going is that the victim was left to drown in his own blood as the one who’d cried waaacism was comforted by the police. The fucking police! Which is, to the average man and woman in the street, something to rage about.
Just not getting it in the slightest.
“Austerity undermined the ability to commune in free spaces and mix socially, in youth clubs…”
No, that was Covid overraction.
Talking about that in this context shows why Malik is saying what she is.
To distract us.
The magic youth clubs again. A basketball hoop and a ping-pong table can fix most if not all of society’s ills.
“It’s fun to stay at the Y M C A”
Indeed, if only Digwa had just held a ping-pong bat instead of a knife….
Absolute fricking clownworld.
‘Moar yoof werkers now!’
Youth clubs were a benefit to society in general and youth in particular. Whose fault was it that most of them were squeezed out of existence? Oh! that would be the Grauniad …
As if I would allow my daughter to go to a “youth club” with Moslems and Africans.
What kind of sick monster would be so reckless with his own flesh and blood?
Yoof clubs are not meant for the children of responsible parents…
I think that might rather unkind on some decent but poorer parents. In some parts of the country, anyway.
It’s all lies.
It’s them or us.
That’s my reaction to condemnations of Farage and to appeals for calm. We have been calm; we keep getting murdered.
Yep. We’re not creating division, the rub-their-noses-in-diversity progressives did that.
But we’ve noticed, and they don’t like us noticing.
Our daughters raped and tortured, our sons butchered in the street like animals.
F*ck calm, we’re entitled to be angry.
She gets it. They nearly all do. They are desperate to distract; to change the subject.
Her job – her very livelihood- depends on her not ‘getting it’.Or at least, pretending she doesn’t and continuing churning out the content the readers expect.
That *her paymasters* expect. Communist China has more billionaires per head than the USA.
Austerity undermined the ability to commune in free spaces and mix socially, in youth clubs, in family support centres…
And this government’s policies are undermining pubs. But, of course to people like her, pubs don’t matter because ideally people should socialise in state-funded and state-sanctioned settings where they can be indoctrinated.
Top marks to Nesrine. Understand now, Tim?
State-sanctioned settings that ban alcohol.
On the whole I’d like governments to be austere with taxpayers’ money so taxpayers can be as profligate as they please if they can afford it.
We either accept that racial victimhood is now a growing feature of our politics, or remake that politics by standing in the winds of backlash to grapple with race contests, cynically manufactured, cynically deployed as battle strategy. It won’t be easy. But what other choice is there?
IoW: The tolerance and moral sense of white people has been used by third-world activists to guilt-trip us into giving them free stuff and allowing them to treat obeying our laws as optional.
Now white people are rightfully angry and are pushing back against the daily violence and abuse directed towards us, said third-world activists are pleading for solidarity and unity.
Too late Nesrine, the jig is up and the days of race-grifters like you are coming to an end.
We can but hope…
Sheesh… Word Salad 101….
Yep. I didn’t get very far in before thinking, “I’m not going to read this shit.”
We could always start the repatriations with Guardian journalists.
That WOULD give a belated apology to some of the colonised for our benighted prejudices against cannibalism.
Does Never-never Land accept repatriations?
Only of lost boys, surely? What has Peter Pan ever done to deserve Nesrine?
Fair point, but Lucifer definitely accepts repatriations…and much of the Guardian is satanic – in the late Roger Scruton’s definition as “the spirit of negation”.
Gradually, I began to hate them.
Liar. About the ‘gradually’.
Kipling had some words on the subject…
On one of my army education courses we got on to the subject of why there hadn’t been a revolution in England/Britain. One of the reasons given was that the establishment always gave just enough to ensure the masses were placated whenever they get really restless.
It appears our modern establishment hasn’t learned that lesson and if they continue down their chosen path bis may be proved wrong.
Wasn’t there an inglorious revolution?
Bang on.
On Twitter I have seen lots of lefty cunts pointing out that a Saudi student was stabbed to death in Cambridge by some bloke called Chas Corrigan and asking ‘What do you right-wingers think of that? Why aren’t you protesting about that?’
To which the trivially obvious answer is we pretty much all think Chas Corrigan should have been either hanged or jailed for actual life, but if we were to protest about every fucking murder we wouldn’t get any work done, and we are not protesting (or angry) about the murder of Nowak so much as the police response and the reasons for it.
Of course they know this, but they are past masters at throwing sand in people’s eyes.
Plus, in both cases, the murder could not have happened but for the presence of the furriner.
Is Corrigan English or Irish?
It’s Super Hans you want to look out for
I think that it was terrible and Corrigan should (if not hanged) be jailed for life.
You can tell them that, if they ask you again – they didn’t ask me.
I am an individual.
Nesrine would like to abolish my individual rights and allocate them all to a “collective”.
My rights as an individual allow me to associate with like-minded individuals but not to impose my views upon them.
We certainly can come together as a free association of individuals – last Sunday I went, as my wife’s guest, to summer picnic of the allotment-holders in the patch where she has an allotment. I attend church most weeks; I join a training group most Tuesdays, I occasionally go to the “Men’s Shed” led and organised by a small team including one of my neighbours, less often (a couple of dozen times a year) I attempt to race against some friendly rivals. None of these are affected by her *imaginary* “austerity” [the government does, and its predecessors did, run a budget deficit so there is – by definition – no bloody austerity]. My friend Jim (a bit older than I) has run a dozen marathons but I did not tell anyone on Sunday that they should copy us.
There is *nothing* neo-liberal in “smashing” or reducing the amount of places to gather. No neo-liberal will ever say “you cannot gather here” unless you are trampling on someone’s flower-bed or frightening the horses (or keeping the children awake in the middle of the night) – that is the petty bureaucrat.
Most men define themselves by what they do rather than what they consume: this seems unacceptable to Nesrine. Perhaps she fears that some might look down on those who want a not just a cushy existence but a luxurious lifestyle without a hard day’s work.
“Most men define themselves by what they do”
And I define others by what they do. Not some accident of birth that they can’t help, like being Welsh or ginger (either kind). By their behaviour. And if they happen to be foreign and don’t behave to some accepted standard in UK terms, I’d rather they did it elsewhere. That’s all. Not racist, not sexist, not islamophobic. Just behaviourist.
Hear, hear Rhoda!!!
I attend church most weeks
I used to attend our local CofE Cathedral weekly, now it’s occasional, – though my wife still sings in the Ladies’ Choir. The problem for me is the relentless wokery…focusing on “women’s ministry”, special services for “LGBT and allies”, sermons on climate change with asides denouncing Trump or Brexit, etc. My brother-in-law tells me it’s much the same in the Church of Rome – though he regards such as merely “barnacles on the boat of St Peter”, so I should come aboard the one true church.
You have to find a good church, with a good priest. It doesn’t matter if it’s Catholic, Anglican, Baptist, Orthodox or Miscellaneous. Jesus promised us that wherever we are gathered in his name, he will be with us. I never understood why more Christians don’t understand that. But there are good, faithful men of the cloth out there.
But first, we must gather in his name. Smuggling Climate Change, LGBTQ, or “anti-racism” into church in the name of Christ is an insult to God. Those people have dethroned God in their hearts, and raised up the monstrosities of 20th century progressivism in His place. When Christ returns in glory, I bet you a talent that we’ll see archbishops, popes and priests leg it for the hills. Because they have a lot of explaining to do, and I don’t think the BBC will save them.
“When Christ returns in glory, I bet you a talent that we’ll see archbishops, popes and priests leg it for the hills.”
A truth that was already remarked on in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle…
And, with a bit of studying history… hasn’t improved much since…
But there are , indeed, the rare but very real “men of the cloth” out there…
Of course they don’t stand a chance of ever getting up high enough to actually effect change.
Besides the ..Management Structure… , they simply aren’t the type, *because* they live their lives according to their set of Rules.
Steve. The church has been doing that ever since there was a church. Reinforcing what it sees as the current “morality”. It’s an essential aspect of monotheistic religions. Using the god’s “authority” to declare there is only one view & any other is anathema. You’re doing exactly the same thing.
When Christ returns in glory, I bet you a talent that we’ll see archbishops, popes and priests leg it for the hills. Yep, the creation of yet another bunch of heretics. Stakes & faggots time again?
Unions worked when there was no worker mobility. If the bastered factory worker refused to pay you, you couldn’t feuque off to somewhere else, so you had to band together collectively so that any threat to one worker resulted in all the workforce disappearing.
Now we have invented being able to travel more than a mile, and employer who pisses off the worker loses the worker to somebody who doesn’t piss them off. Unions have lost their purpose, and should with all sense simply revert to being funeral savings schemes.
It’s interesting to compare unionism in Yorkshire coalmining areas where the next coal mine was twenty miles away, with unionism in the Sheffield steel works, where you could walk out on your boss, go around the corner, and walk into another job.
The Friendly Societies were a great invention, went far beyond a funeral club, provided sick pay (subject to reasonable conditions), widows’ pensions and, in a few cases, old age pensions for those no longer able to work. Asquith’s headline-catching Old Age Pension was partly a copy of Bismarck’s and partly nationalisation of the schemes of many Friendly Societies.
Friendly Societies were not unions because they were mutual help associations, not anti-employer associations; many helped the self-employed in an industry and the “Oddfellows” covered a range of disparate occupations – some which had too small a number of workers for the spread of risk to make insurance cheap.
Chris Miller and BraveFart are better communicators than I so may explain it better but I know Friendly Societies did more than Attlee to create a welfare state.
So much of left wing commentary these days is refusing to actually get the point.
Sometimes I wonder if they are actually retarded, rather than just pretending to be.
I note that locals in Norn Iron are taking rather robust exception to the attempted beheading of one of their own by a Noble Savage.
Perhaps this is finally how it starts? They’re a bit less wallflower about this kind of thing over there than we are. We also have a nice warm weekend coming up.