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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
Once the hysterics and propaganda are put aside, it's actually fairly obvious that this will not happen in the UK. South Africa is a dangerous and violent country and always has been. This is not a case of people simply going wild and turning murderous because some immigrants "took their jobs". Seriously.
My point, anyway, is that ---if--- this ever happens in the UK, if UK citizens pick up axes and start hacking immigrants - fellow human beings - to pieces then it will be no one's fault but the people picking up the weapons. And perhaps some blame might lie with the people feeding their anger with xenophobic bull****.
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One man's xenophobic bull**** is another man's truth and often the one decreeing another's truthful insights as 'hysterics' and 'propaganda' is the one using propaganda and being 'hysterical'. All too often in my opinion.
I didn't perceive Empire to mean that if immigration remained uncontrolled that UK citizens would LITERALLY start hacking 'immigrants' to death because they 'took their jobs', rather that increasing uncontrolled immigration fosters increasing resentment among an increasingly widening section of society, with such civil unrest subsequently manifesting itself in protest of some form or other.
There have been bloody riots in this country since the 12th century, and those riots occurred for a variety of reasons; from 'anti-Semitism ' to anti-War to anti-Poll Tax, and there has been a palpable dissatisfaction for years with our government's 'Open Door' immigration policy among UK citizens, and this is growing and no longer confined to those stereotyped 'xenophobic (yawn) racist (yawn) 'skinhead factions of extremists such as the BNP - but 'ordinary', non-racist, non-xenophobic citizens of all classes, colours and creeds.
No one is feeding anyone's 'anger' with any racist (yawn) xenophobic (yawn) bull****, but the fact that you concede that such 'anger' is there in the first place among UK citizens beggars the question of; "Why then, is such anger there"?
You say that; "South Africa is a dangerous and violent country and always has been." which can be perceived to be un P.C, racist, and xenophobic in itself.