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Rejection!
Oct. 20th, 2009 09:17 amNoes! I didn't win the Cthulhu Haiku contest! Writers on the flist, I grok your pain. ;)
Oct. 20th, 2009
The stupid, it burns
Oct. 20th, 2009 02:41 pmThe Beeb's Have Your Say is flypaper for green-ink nutters. The ones supporting the vile, racist puke-akke that is the BNP (download the current membership list here) do come across as even thicker than the regular biomass. Take this gem:
"what is so wrong with the BNP membership policy? We have ethnic organisations with policies that exclude others so why is it so wrong for the BNP? Take the Black Police Association. Is that not gender specific?"
Where to start? Oh, where to start? The poster can't tell the difference between race and gender (and he means 'sex') - clearly they're all just rolled up into a bunch of fuzzy hippy feel-good bullshit in their frightened little rat-hole of a mind. And 'ethnic organisations' kinda skips that the others are not political parties, who are required by law to allow everyone they aspire to govern to join.
I'm reaching the conclusion that the far right has two disctinct groups: stupid, angry, scared people (thugs and grannies); and clever, manipulative people who run the show, and who might believe anything at all but can at least put on a show.
All this brouhaha is contingent on the recession: fear and uncertainty are amplified by financial stress, just as they're numbed by comfort, so the next year - between when the numbers start turning up and when we feel it on the street - will be a pinchy, nasty place in politics.
"what is so wrong with the BNP membership policy? We have ethnic organisations with policies that exclude others so why is it so wrong for the BNP? Take the Black Police Association. Is that not gender specific?"
Where to start? Oh, where to start? The poster can't tell the difference between race and gender (and he means 'sex') - clearly they're all just rolled up into a bunch of fuzzy hippy feel-good bullshit in their frightened little rat-hole of a mind. And 'ethnic organisations' kinda skips that the others are not political parties, who are required by law to allow everyone they aspire to govern to join.
I'm reaching the conclusion that the far right has two disctinct groups: stupid, angry, scared people (thugs and grannies); and clever, manipulative people who run the show, and who might believe anything at all but can at least put on a show.
All this brouhaha is contingent on the recession: fear and uncertainty are amplified by financial stress, just as they're numbed by comfort, so the next year - between when the numbers start turning up and when we feel it on the street - will be a pinchy, nasty place in politics.