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		<title>By: Boyo</title>
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		<dc:creator>Boyo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;The presenter was almost surprised that I said that in certain cases class trumped race and brown working class people may be equally angry about immigration affecting their local area. Lo and behold, his co-presenter made some idiotic remark that because white working classes were more secular, and Asian working classes more religious, it meant the two cases were very different&quot;.

Quite, and no wonder they quickly tried to scotch it: you&#039;re letting the cat out of the bag. I read somewhere else the other day that &quot;no one talks about class any more&quot; so well done for doing so: because at the end of the day it&#039;s all about power. 

The elite like immigration not least because they can emphasise race (and those terrible racist WWC). The last thing they want is their grateful immigrants to develop class consciousness (don&#039;t they have &quot;religion&quot;?) - they&#039;ll have to think up other ways to cling on to their power, um, like property-driven school catchment areas, tuition fees ... plastic bullets...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;The presenter was almost surprised that I said that in certain cases class trumped race and brown working class people may be equally angry about immigration affecting their local area. Lo and behold, his co-presenter made some idiotic remark that because white working classes were more secular, and Asian working classes more religious, it meant the two cases were very different&#8221;.</p>
<p>Quite, and no wonder they quickly tried to scotch it: you&#8217;re letting the cat out of the bag. I read somewhere else the other day that &#8220;no one talks about class any more&#8221; so well done for doing so: because at the end of the day it&#8217;s all about power. </p>
<p>The elite like immigration not least because they can emphasise race (and those terrible racist WWC). The last thing they want is their grateful immigrants to develop class consciousness (don&#8217;t they have &#8220;religion&#8221;?) &#8211; they&#8217;ll have to think up other ways to cling on to their power, um, like property-driven school catchment areas, tuition fees &#8230; plastic bullets&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Parvinder Singh</title>
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		<dc:creator>Parvinder Singh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The programme seemed to be suggesting that Mr Powell was right all along. Images of the riots of the 80s and more recent, 7/7: well I did warn you!
I agree with Martin O&#039;Neill that it was very selective and misleading. What is the beeb playing at? Middle class and PC guilt all rolled into one. 

To be fair to the BBC, &#039;White girl&#039; and the &#039;Poles are coming&#039; haven&#039;t been that bad.

On a different, but not too unconnected note, a few years ago, I, like many others, were privilege to listen to Leon Greenman&#039; testimony. He will be solely missed but his message preserved always as a reminder of how views of the likes of Mr Powell, the BNP and sections of the media can, if unchallenged, eventually lead to:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/10/secondworldwar?gusrc=rss&amp;feed=worldnews</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The programme seemed to be suggesting that Mr Powell was right all along. Images of the riots of the 80s and more recent, 7/7: well I did warn you!<br />
I agree with Martin O&#8217;Neill that it was very selective and misleading. What is the beeb playing at? Middle class and PC guilt all rolled into one. </p>
<p>To be fair to the BBC, &#8216;White girl&#8217; and the &#8216;Poles are coming&#8217; haven&#8217;t been that bad.</p>
<p>On a different, but not too unconnected note, a few years ago, I, like many others, were privilege to listen to Leon Greenman&#8217; testimony. He will be solely missed but his message preserved always as a reminder of how views of the likes of Mr Powell, the BNP and sections of the media can, if unchallenged, eventually lead to:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/10/secondworldwar?gusrc=rss&amp;feed=worldnews" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/10/secondworldwar?gusrc=rss&amp;feed=worldnews</a></p>
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		<title>By: Ravi Naik</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/1766/comment-page-1#comment-107276</link>
		<dc:creator>Ravi Naik</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;&quot;The presenter was almost surprised that I said that in certain cases class trumped race and brown working class people may be equally angry about immigration affecting their local area. Lo and behold, his co-presenter made some idiotic remark that because white working classes were more secular, and Asian working classes more religious, it meant the two cases were very different&quot;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Very interesting. I totally agree that it has everything to do with class, and I cannot see what religion has anything to do with it. But that is the narrative and the conventional wisdom, right? Fucking retards.

&lt;blockquote&gt;&quot;Looks like BBC producers have become so scared of being called ‘politically correct’ that it seems they go out of their way to prove the opposite. Its just embarassingly bad journalism. No doubt its producers think that all this criticism is further evidence of how “fearlessly provocative” they are. Sheesh.&quot;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>&#8220;The presenter was almost surprised that I said that in certain cases class trumped race and brown working class people may be equally angry about immigration affecting their local area. Lo and behold, his co-presenter made some idiotic remark that because white working classes were more secular, and Asian working classes more religious, it meant the two cases were very different&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Very interesting. I totally agree that it has everything to do with class, and I cannot see what religion has anything to do with it. But that is the narrative and the conventional wisdom, right? Fucking retards.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Looks like BBC producers have become so scared of being called ‘politically correct’ that it seems they go out of their way to prove the opposite. Its just embarassingly bad journalism. No doubt its producers think that all this criticism is further evidence of how “fearlessly provocative” they are. Sheesh.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>And to think we are paying for it.</p>
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		<title>By: More rubbish on the BBC</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/1766/comment-page-1#comment-107248</link>
		<dc:creator>More rubbish on the BBC</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Michelle Malkin wrote an interesting post today onHere&#8217;s a quick excerptAfter all, brown working class people also suffer from political apathy, low achievement and poverty. The presenter was almost surprised that I said that in certain cases class trumped race and brown working class people may be equally &#8230; [...]</description>
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