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British senior politician compares Poland to South Africa during apartheid [129]
Seriously... a Labour politician claiming that another country, one with virtually no visible minorities, has Apartheid-like conditions? If anyone has increased the prevalence of "Apartheid-like" conditions in the UK, it's the last Labour government. Remember that this was the government which deliberately increased immigration for political reasons - I'm not going to add links, but the evidence is easily found online. Poland has no non-white "ghettos", whereas the UK has plenty. I've lived in several areas where whites are a small minority, and you don't stay long there if you have a choice.
Before the usual group of expats to Poland start ganging-up on anyone Polish who dares to express a reasoned pro-Polish opinion, I'll state that I do NOT agree with the abuse which certain footballers have experienced. Even if it wasn't considered racist, what kind of person makes "monkey noises" towards other people anyway? That's the kind of thing a seven year-old would find funny. It's like "Beavis and Butthead" humour - "huh huh huh, she said horn", etc. - funny when you're a child, puerile when you're an adult.
Everyone who has commented on the football-related thread has failed to understand the UK media's underlying agenda here - which is that prejudice towards Poles is the acceptable face of racism in the UK. This has grown during the past eight years, as Polish immigration increased. Yet there is never any criticism of continued immigration from Third World countries, which is still far higher than Polish immigration to the UK.
Whenever there are reports of Pakistani Muslim crime against whites of any ethnicity, they simply avoid any ethnic/religious terms, or use the inadequate catch-all term "Asian" - which is an insult to the Chinese/Indian/Vietnamese/Filipino/Japanese etc communities in the UK, who rarely pose any problems. Likewise, when a white person or group is the victim of an "Afro-Caribbean" gang, they dare not even use the catch-all term "black". The race of the criminal should be irrelevant, but there have been plenty of crimes committed in this country where white ethnic groups have been targeted by non-whites, but these are always reposted differently to crimes committed by whites against non-whites - they always add vague terms like "the police are at this time unsure whether this was a hate crime, but investigations are continuing" - which is not used when the roles are reversed. Although it's also true to say that the biggest threat to blacks are black men, but the media dare not state facts like this, as it's easier to blame "whitey" for black gunmen who murder their own.
Any major city in the UK has more race-related problems than the whole of Poland, yet Poles and Poland are yet again seen as pariahs in the UK media.
Yet whenever there is any report of crime/wrongdoing by European immigrants from Slavic/Baltic countries, they don't even use (admittedly incorrect) terms like "Eastern European", it's
always reported as "Polish/Lithuanian/Estonian/Slovak etc <insert name of crime here>". I work in a very PC environment, yet blatant prejudice towards Polish workers (and towards me, when they learn of my surname) has increased since 2004. There is NO WAY this would be allowed towards non-Europeans, so no-one can claim that there isn't an accepted underlying agenda here.
Any major city in the UK has more race-related problems than the whole of Poland has, yet Poles and Poland are yet again seen as pariahs by the UK media. We're sick of the hypocrisy of UK politicians and journalists - get your own house in order first, before lecturing other countries on how to deal with their own problems!
