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The Mail hate campaign against immigrants continues: Minority groups to get extra Government help to protect them from the recession. Not content with fiddling immigration statistics the Mail now wants to take a cheap shot at minority groups. The above article basically tries to create racial tension after the Work and Pensions secretary James Purnell raised the point that: Employment levels amongst ethnic minority workers fell by 10 percentage points in the 1990s recession - much worse than rest of the country. So, essentially, Purnell identifies those likely to be most in need during this recession, based on previous experience during the last recession. Seems like Purnell is doing his job. However, the Mail are eager to point out that Purnell offering support to those most in need is 'controversial' (it is worth considering just who decides whether something is controversial) largely because those identified as being most in need are an ethnic minority - i.e. sponging immigrants who presumably have already been showered with benefits and free housing.
The article includes a quotation from Philip Davies (Parliamentary Spokesman for the Campaign Against Political Correctness, from his website: 'Issues that Philip feels particularly strongly about are maintaining law and order, tackling asylum and immigration problems...') who claims that: This is simply outrageous. The Government should be targeting support at all who need it.The Government should be colour blind when it comes to looking who needs help. Doing otherwise will only entrench racism, as far as I'm concerned. The Government should be looking now to help the groups that have already been hit, like savers. Firstly, Philip, the government is trying to target those most in need, those most in need just happen to be an ethnic minority. Again, trying to make it clearer for you: they have been targeted for support because of their needs, not their ethnic status. Secondly, you decrying helping those most in need seems to be because they are an ethnic minority; it thereby seems as if you are the one entrenching racism, not the other way round. Thirdly, The government are focusing on those most in need, presumably those people that have enough money in savings to be genuinely hit by the reduction of interest rates are not therefore going to be those most in need of financial support.
Naturally the BNP supporting Mail readers have been out in force crying out that again the 'hard-working white man' is being forgotten once again: Hey, Purnell old chap. I have an ethnic minority for you currently heavily discriminated against. White, English, middle-class, male, heterosexual Christian! - Mal, Vale of Glamorgan., 1/3/2009 9:01 Are they really that thick? Don't they realize that giving them special treatment causes fraction, not reduces it. - Joe, Derby, England, 1/3/2009 9:28 Tell you what. Let's just open the floodgates and completely change the face of the country! We're almost there anyway - john posner, london, 1/3/2009 9:44 This from a government that legislates against discrimination. Now we see their true intentions and hatred of the people who elected them. How will so-called minoirities suffer more than whites during a recession, which qualifies them for special treatment? - Lickyalip, Richmond, Surrey, 1/3/2009 9:46 "Minority groups will get extra help in a bid to shield them from unemployment and the economic downturn, a minister has vowed." From OUR TAXES, you mean? How many times over are we going to be overspent? - Philip, Bankrupt Britain, 1/3/2009 9:56 As usual the Mail plays to its audience of ignorant racists. The story is: 'government targets those most in need'. The Mail report it as: 'government give ethnic minorities EXTRA HELP, but WHAT ABOUT US WHITE BRITISH PEOPLE'. The Mail commentators lap it up: 'us whites are victims again, kill all foreigners, vote BNP' etc If anyone ever questions whether the Mail is a racist paper, read mainly by inherently racist people, they need only look at the Mail's treatment of ethnic minorities / immigrants to know that a paper that twists so many stories to make them centre on ethnicity or nationality (regardless of the real issues) is one with a racist hate agenda. |
Ethnic minorities to be protected from the economic downturn.
I for one am getting very angry about being discriminated against purely because I am white and happened to be born in this country.
- Martin, Clacton UK, 1/3/2009 9:57
Im British, White, Male and Straight. Whats my chances of getting extra help. ABSOLUTELY NONE in this discrimitative country.
- Michael Walton, Hull, 1/3/2009 10:49
As usual WHITE British males are left to fend for them selves! Why should minority groups get helpas many of them have great lives of better benefits than most of British people get.
Annette, Scotland
- Annette Shaw, Hamilton, Scotland, 1/3/2009 11:10
Looks like Labour will be up to their social engineering tricks again.
As usual, the answer to everything will probably be more handouts, quotas, regulation.... - the last thing that employers in commerce and industry needs at a time like this.
They had better realise that the ones in work paying for all their dreamy ideas are becoming fewer.
- John, Ilkley, West Yorks., 1/3/2009 11:27
so it's forget the british white man once again!
- Maggie, London, 1/3/2009 11:35
So let me get this right because I am a white, 21 year old heterosexual male, it will be me instead who is left behind to cater for those people who are in a minority. Sorry i'm alive!! I can't wait for Nu Labour to be thrown out of office
- Michael Collins, Worcester, Uk, 1/3/2009 11:35