[ SECRET POST #4565 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4565 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Lion King (2019)]


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[Cassandra Clare]


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[The Witcher]


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[The Liar Princess and the Blind Prince]


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[Dark]


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[That Guy With Glasses/Channel Awesome/ #ChangeTheChannel]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 56 secrets from Secret Submission Post #654.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

Re: Unpopular opinions

[(Anonymous)]

I think the problem with this argument is that it ignores the long history of anti-immigration and racist politics in the UK (not to mention the broad question of the legacy of empire which I think absolutely has to be addressed). That's not to say that classism isn't also a massively significant issue. And I think it's probably true that economic factors and the failures of the political mainstream have exacerbated the problem. But they didn't cause it. Peter Griffiths and Enoch Powell were already Conservative politicians in the 1960s after all.

Re: Unpopular opinions

[ayebydan]

The class issues that OP rightly say drive our shitshow are far older than the 1960s or indeed the slavetrade or even the Empire. This all stems back to before the Union was even formed.

Re: Unpopular opinions

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not saying that class issues are new by any means. What I am saying is that you can't point to governmental polices over recent decades, and use that as an explanation for racism in the UK. That's the part of the OP's argument that I take issue with - the idea that racism is a relatively novel phenomenon caused by relatively recent economic policies. I don't think that narrative is correct. This idea here:

We have lots of very, *very* poor areas that have been ignored by the government for decades. People without hope or a future look for someone to blame and are an easy target for people like Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson.

Class and economic issues have existed for a long time, granted, but very recent economic policies did not cause anti-immigrant and racist policies to spring into existence. Nigel Farage did not invent racism.

Re: Unpopular opinions

[(Anonymous)]

No they didn't invent it, but they are taking advantage of the current conditions in this country - which was rather more my point.

As for the rest - I think you need to work on your reading comprehension. I'm not claiming that racism is novel. I'm saying I think classism is the bigger overarching problem. And additionally that the a rise in poverty - driven by recent government policy which is firmly routed in classism- has made the matter of racism worse.

Re: Unpopular opinions

[(Anonymous)]

My father stood for Parliament against Enoch Powell in the 1960s!

He lost, both times.