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Originally Posted by bitontheslide
interesting that forum members have been chastised for using terms to describe labour such as looney left, yet a word such as chimps is ok within the ranks  |
Not true. I've chastised the truth for using the term 'loony left' not only because it's cringey as ****, but also because the context within which he was using it (to criticise the New Labour administration) wasn't at all applicable or relevant.
Once again, for every time I see it being used (or indeed the entirety of the left being slandered as antisemetic), I will make a point of referencing the racist right
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Originally Posted by joeysteele
I have not posted on here for a while due to personal issues.
I wasn't going to today again but have to say this.
Anyone who wants knowledge on this issue, please neither take the word of those on here who are in the Labour party or are supporters of same,and certainly please do not take the word of those who are again simply exercising their own personal hate and prejudice against the Labour party and those on the left of politics generally.
Particularly those who hate Corbyn.
Please research for yourself the ordinary Labour members, voters and MPs who the vast majority of are as decent, and in no way anti semitic, than people and MPs in other political parties.
To generalise on a whole party and movement is slanderous,a disgrace, it is got away with at times here and has reared its head many times now.
I have always made a stand against that prejudice.
The vast majority of people in the Labour party and movement, just as is the case with other political parties too,( the mainstream ones),are decent caring and hardworking individuals who do not warrant in any form the spite and hate directed at them from those who simply detest the whole of the left of politics and anyone who is of that persuasion.
I hadn't accepted how bad that personal spite and prejudice was until I ended up on the receiving end of it, and just because I joined the Labour party.
People should remember that members on here are members of Labour, are Labour supporters and maybe even Labour councillor/s, when people make serious generalised charges of them being anti semitic, thereby tarnishing deliberately decent innocent individuals, that is and should be totally unacceptable and wrong.
It is even more rich when that attack comes from those who choose to do so from a hate and prejudice against those on the left, no matter who they may be.
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Eloquently put as ever Joey.