Comments on: Mistaken Identity – Sikhs under siege? http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/16 Current affairs for a progressive generation Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:34:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Luniversal http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/16/comment-page-1#comment-62 Luniversal Wed, 07 Sep 2005 16:44:31 +0000 http://www.pickledpolitics.com/?p=16#comment-62 (1) It's 'siege'. (2) For pity's sake don't join in the ghastly Jewy habit of shouting 'shame on you' at everyone you disagree with. It impresses nobody. Just state your case. (3) If you're *really* British you're not 'British Asians' or any other damn thing. But how can someone with a brown face ever be purely and simply British? Race is biology, not choice, and Britain is one of the most monoracial nation states in the world-- or was until c. 1950. The only way Asians will become British is by several generations of miscegenation. (1) It’s ’siege’.

(2) For pity’s sake don’t join in the ghastly Jewy habit of shouting ’shame on you’ at everyone you disagree with. It impresses nobody. Just state your case.

(3) If you’re *really* British you’re not ‘British Asians’ or any other damn thing. But how can someone with a brown face ever be purely and simply British? Race is biology, not choice, and Britain is one of the most monoracial nation states in the world– or was until c. 1950. The only way Asians will become British is by several generations of miscegenation.

]]> By: Jay Singh http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/16/comment-page-1#comment-52 Jay Singh Tue, 06 Sep 2005 11:19:31 +0000 http://www.pickledpolitics.com/?p=16#comment-52 I also think that Sikh and Hindu communalism in Britain is to a large extent reactive - we are at the stage now when greater society does not really give a damn about Hindus or Sikhs and they feel marginalised to a certain degree - the engine for this has been the increasing use of religion the primary mark of identity-politics in Britain - and I have to say that this has come primarily from the Muslim community in the last ten or fifteen years, something that is not politically correct to mention but is true. I also think that Sikh and Hindu communalism in Britain is to a large extent reactive – we are at the stage now when greater society does not really give a damn about Hindus or Sikhs and they feel marginalised to a certain degree – the engine for this has been the increasing use of religion the primary mark of identity-politics in Britain – and I have to say that this has come primarily from the Muslim community in the last ten or fifteen years, something that is not politically correct to mention but is true.

]]> By: Jay Singh http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/16/comment-page-1#comment-51 Jay Singh Tue, 06 Sep 2005 11:10:58 +0000 http://www.pickledpolitics.com/?p=16#comment-51 Sunny I agree with most of what you say - except your invocation of 'shame' for the Guardian reporting these issues and tensions - why? Unless you uncover the tensions you are not going to be aware of them or treat the causes of them. Sunny

I agree with most of what you say – except your invocation of ’shame’ for the Guardian reporting these issues and tensions – why? Unless you uncover the tensions you are not going to be aware of them or treat the causes of them.

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