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What happens then when the tories take power after the next general election? Will we then have a right-wing establishment?
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it will take a lot to shift the incumbents in the BBC, the unis, and the judiciary, but it's conceivable that it could happen.
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Opposition to the war on Iraq has hardly been restricted to "metropolitan liberals" as you put it. That is a fantasy.
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whoever said it was? thats a complete straw man. i was responding to your specific point about the liberal media's critique of the war.
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Soon to be the telegraph readers then.
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could be.
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It is not doing critical thought any service to wilfully downplay the signifigance of factors that are prevalent in all these sections of the community and are not specific to ethnicity
As I said before, culture-specific factors must be examined, it would be daft to ignore them. But more daft is to place an emphasis on cultural factors specific to particular ethnic communities that may be contributing factors, (when we can see these problems are experienced across all sorts of ethnic groups) at the expense of the many characteristics that afflicted communities, regardless of their ethnic composition, share in common..
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whose downplaying them? i've acknowledged your point about poverty, but i'm also capable of seeing that as not the be all and end all. there is plenty white and asian poverty in london, so why the massive statistical abonormality in terms of black kids as victims and perpetrators of killings?
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Im not really sure how much you can say its something specific to the west of scotland. There is similar youth violence in parts of edinburgh and tayside, but Glasgow has considerably higher levels of poverty and a much higher population that live in the kind of areas afflicted with these types of problems. I dont think it is therefore simply a coincidence that there is more of an issue in the weege, or that there is necessarily something specific to the weegie mentality that leads to kids paggering than other urban areas in Scotland.
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there is a far higher rate of lethal violence in strathclyde than elsewhere. it seems to be an aspect of their culture that weapons are deployed a lot more readily. it was ever thus, back in the 80s at the football, the followers of our club and aberdeen were hardly shrinking violets, but it was the weegies that were still the ones likely to be wielding knives.
a refusal to be discriminating is a massive massive limit on thought superbam. it's not wrong - in fact it's the opposite of wrong - to consider the specifics of a problem.