Comments on: Blame Johhny Foreigner

By: Graham

Graham — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:49:54 +0000

Or whenever they are served up a load of cobblers…

By: M o r g o t h

M o r g o t h — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:45:47 +0000

I notice that Gregg didn’t actually offer any type of rebuttal to Alcuin’s point – instead he indulged in the typical tirade of insults that liberals offer whenever their false narratives are challenged.

By: ChrisC

ChrisC — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:22:02 +0000

Joe, thank you so much for drawing my attention to the unintentional athiestophobe content of my earlier comment. I do not resent your contribution, indeed I will turn my other cheek so it may be slapped by you as hard as the first one. I do, however, assume that you took the elementary precaution of checking yourself for sin before casting that particular stone.

My only defence is that I am under considerable stress right now, having practised meekness for some days and not yet having inherited diddly squat to compensate me for my losses on my HBOS shares. My relatives just take too many statins, I guess.

By: Joe Camel

Joe Camel — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:00:47 +0000

Chris C, with all due respect, may I point out to you in a proper comradely spirit that your own writing sometimes lapses, unintentionally I am sure, into language that can only be termed as potentially offensive to atheists. In your first post you used an regrettable turn of phrase that is unfortunately all too expressive of christianist divisiveness, namely “to sort the sheep from the goats”, while further down in the same post you used a word that some would find doubly offensive, being not only christianist but judaist as well, namely the Hebrew word “Amen”.

Kindly be more careful in future.

By: Alcuin

Alcuin — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:46:51 +0000

The distinction between positive and negative liberty is considered specious by socialist and Marxist political philosophers, who argue that positive and negative liberty are indistinguishable in practice, or that one cannot exist without the other. – whose strings would seem to have been well and truly pulled.

By: emmanuelgoldstein

emmanuelgoldstein — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:05:41 +0000

Because they never can seem to grasp the conservative concept of negative freedom - that you are allowed to do anything that the Law does not prohibit you from doing.

That description of negative freedom is severely mistaken. Read, mark, learn and inwardly digest. Alternatively, take the bollocks elsewhere. Interestingly, since conservatism so strongly emphasises informal sanctions, it's unlikely that any true conservative would affirm that whatever is not prohibited by law is allowed.

By: Gregg

Gregg — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:38:46 +0000

I've seen some incredible paranoia, hypocrisy and ignorance in rants against "Political Correctness" over the years, but Alcuin takes the cake for packing so much retarded bullshit into such a brief comment. Not content with pronouncing mindlessly upon things about which he apparently knows nothing (Marxism, Conservatism, history, life), he quotes from brainless gobshite Anthony Browne, late of Policy Exchange and now working for Bozza. Anyone wondering about the text that quote comes from, or merely to what extent Browne is totemic of the army of reactionary parasites whose slurry is becoming ubiquitous, might like to read this, quite possibly the most accurate book review ever fucking written.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:01:08 +0000

Is it your implicit claim that there are non idiotic local councils? If so please name one and comment on its policies wrt waste and global warming.

By: mrs Ben

mrs Ben — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:48:24 +0000

My local Lib Dems banned flying the St George Flag on the Town Hall, and marches by the local boy scouts,St Johns etc, on St George’s day a few years ago, on the grounds this might upset our “non Christian” local residents, (relatively few in my part of West London.) This supposedly easily offended minority piped up to say they were not in the least offended, but one particular Lib-Dem councillor kept banging on about it.

You appear to have some insight into this sort of thing ChrisC. Whose sensibilities are these politicians and bureaucrats so nervous of upsetting especially in a predominantly white indigenous area like mine? I can sort of see why a wanna be councillor might think it would do them some good to be seen not to be biased in favour of any section of the community (even if we are still nominally at least a Christian country) if we had a large ethnic vote round here but we don’t and certainly not enough to sway an election when planning issues like stopping Heathrow airport or Tesco expansion are far more headline grabbing.

So what is the motivation?

By: Graham

Graham — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:33:03 +0000

In the UK at least you could find many Conservative governments indulging in their own kind of “Political Correctness” long before even Marx was born. Most of this was sold as “morality” and served to keep people in their place. Have a look at this book sometime:

http://vulpeslibris.wordpress.com/2008/06/18/ben-wilson-decency-and-disorder/