I'm still trying to get to grips with this blogger thing and I've been searching for blogs that might interest me. I googled 'Aberdeen' and 'blogger' this morning - wanting to see If I could find any blogs based in Aberdeen that might be pretty interesting. I was pretty shocked with the first blog I found.
Scottishbritishandproud is a blog written by a man in Aberdeen, with quite clear cut far-right sentiment and a solid link with the BNP in Scotland. It is a well-written blog and is kept up to date - much better than my own and in places it is very articulate. However, this discounts the racism, xenophobia, ignorance and disturbing opinions displayed in Scottishbritishandproud. The vitriol and venom in the tone of the articles is nauseating, the grasp of historical fact is loose at best and the lines of arguments so overtly far-right that at times I wondered if this was for real.
The far-right can flourish in times of economic trouble. When the going is hard it is easy to blame the 'other'. Our history cannot be hijacked for the gain of racism and xenophobia. The threat of the BNP is very real and by hiding behind a banner of 'free speech' they spit venomous opinion and distorted world-view. Education, realisation, knowledge and ethics can show up these people for the very wrong and very dangerous individuals that they are.
When Scottishbritishandproud explains 'that our Fathers fought for Britain' it might do him well to remember what they fought against. Alongside people of many colours and ethnicity, they fought fascism. Neo-nationalism is fascism. It is up to us to make sure that fascists such as Scottishbritishandproud don't discredit the sacrifice that so many men of different ethnicity made.
may I comment upon the positive tenets of nationalism without you responding in kind with emotive responses? For example, if I said to you that I am an English nationalist would you immediately fly in with 'racism' as a label based purely on England/Britains unfortunate history of colonialism/imperialism? And also based on sound market ecomonics - which I am fairly sure you will destroy as a concept anyway - does immigration on any level make sense in a world gripped by recession? Incidentally I don't buy into capitalism in its purest form, people need protection. This is becoming a 1am rant anyway, so I'll let somebody respond and I'll go from there.
ReplyDeleteHaving just read a few months worth of that blog, I'm staggered that views of such ignorance prevail.
ReplyDeleteRhetoric couched in terms of "leftie university graduates" is hardly ever likely to be informed or enlightening, but equating all Asians with Muslims? Please, that's just absurd.