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Originally Posted by Ammi
..and also this..
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I didn't start this thread to discuss whether or not she was right or wrong in what she said... it was to highlight whether or not she should be given a platform to do it, anyone can say whatever they like on twitter and other social media.
But in national newspapers and topical radio shows?
It's akin to the hate preacher inciting hatred, and it's filtering through due to the mainstream media to more and more people... it's becoming impossible to ignore.
Refugees and asylum seekers are already considered undesirable no matter what is happening in their part of the world, we are being conditioned not to care.
Be they other Europeans, Christians, displaced by war, threatened with genocide they're all treated the same with suspicion and contempt.
Suggestions that we turn a blind eye and ignore it are what make me ashamed to be British.