draculina

You can’t make things work in ways that people don’t want them to work.

people actually do gather in communities, and they do integrate – more or less.

They retain their own cultures, as a whole, but they accept the shared values of Britain. Those are tolerance of differences. We don’t kill people because they’re catholic or Muslim (not most…[Read more]

For all your talk of identity politics, drac, you do seem to be a captive of them – the politics of national identity.

You take a sentence out of its context and then you lose track of the overall argument,; you end up taking apart a sentence by quibbling, and you don’t touch the other person’s argument. This is not the  Socratic method you…[Read more]

heyy! how’s everyone doing?

Crate – Crave – Brave – Bravo – Brado – Brady

Racism is the belief that your race is superior to others, and that a race whihc si coming into a country should be ejected and attacked, physically and verbally.

Simple., something that everyone can agree on. I’m not  racist under that definition – quite the opposite. Clear? I don’t care what oddbods of Left or Right use the label of racism.…[Read more]

Happy Easter, arc, and a great New Year in 2018

This is why I have always taken drac seriously, no matter how deeply I disagree with her views. She takes questions up with an attempt at careful argument (an attempt which doesn’t always succeed, I should say, but she can say the same about any of us).

I can be tough in my reaction to her, as she can be, but I’ve never degenerated into calling…[Read more]

This is why I have alwasy taken drac seriously, no matter how deeply I disagree wiht ehr views. She takes questions up with an attempt at careful argument (an attempt whihc doesn’t always succeed, I should say, but she can say the same about any of us).

I’ve been tough in my reaction to her, as she can be, but I’ve never degenerated into…[Read more]

Tommy Robinson is a founder member of the English Defence League, a violent organisation which is racist almost without any dog whistle. To think I’m a racist while taking Tommy Robinson (and Breitbart) seriously shows you are on a very steep learning curve, drac.

What he says about radicalisation in prisons is almost certainly true, and has…[Read more]

welcome to the boards, wannabefatcat.

It’s good to have someone who can taste fresh water. It’s good for you. I drink lots each day. It keeps the system clear.

Merry Christmas, Guru.

And a Happy New Year

She’s on bully power trip. Such a shame, too, because she’s probably a grown up. Draculina is infinitely better than you so you should show the respect that she deserves.

It’s not good to not have tasted fresh water before starting to judge and criticize a culture you’re not even free in. I have never heard of a convert with no strings attached wanting to ever go back. There is only one way everyone likes and everyone likes fruits and rewards without gambling rather than negativity that sucks out energy and makes…[Read more]

Hmm I think maybe what happens is that they’re more past-thinking than always looking forward compared to most people so maybe they feel absolutely alienated by traditional ways and see it as a rejection rather than celebration of religion bringing people together. I feel like I guess if there’s a popular muslim show, for example, that shows them…[Read more]

drac, If you think I’m a racist then you’re living in the same upside-down world as BB, where good is bad, right is wrong, Hitler is a centre-left politician.

I hate to point out the obvious, but Scots don’t have a different skin-colour, and you’re entering into definite realms of maybe when you say that Scots aren’t separate from England – look…[Read more]

a phone call from my son.

** (see at the end, drac)

On the main argument, abut national identity, around which the Right’s identity politics revolves.

You say that ” I used the word country because I was talking about Britain in which the culture has fairly clearly defined geographical boundaries. The sea doesn’t really care about culture much”.

In fact, the sea never d…[Read more]

Cultures have shared values, countries are political entities covering a geographic area. If a country had shared values, then that removes a big source of conflict, but you can’t force shared values of that kind. What you can have is a system of laws which reflect an evolving set of values. But shared values are not set in stone, especially in a…[Read more]

When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself, and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featur’d like him, like him with friends possess’d,
Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope,
With what I most enjoy contented…[Read more]

Drac, you denounce identity politics, but you are one of the real advocates of identity politics on these boards.

The identity politics you advocate is national identity, which you see as far more important than identity by religion or a feeling of exclusion..

If you feel English, you are English. I was born and bred in England, but I’ve been…[Read more]