>> There are many forms of racism which are *not* illegal in the UK but
>> which are still capable of getting people burned alive, tortured or
>> beaten to death.
> Like what?
Deportation to countries where you face certain death.
Running hate campaigns against refugees (in Mail-speak "asylum seekers")
to encourage thugs to attack them.
>> The Mail's lawyers know perfectly well what they
>> can get away with. The paper's editors have decided on a strategy of
>> selling papers by using an ongoing meta-story in which Britain is
>> threatened by alien invasion. Not having any credible Martians to
>> write about, they pin every evil they possibly can on "asylum seekers",
>> knowing that most of them can't afford a legal fightback and that
>> most of their readers are in no position to know when the Mail is
>> bullshitting.
> So how do you know that stories about asylum seekers
> in the Daily Mail are false?
For how they find their stories:
http://www.carf.demon.co.uk/feat22.html
http://www.canterbury.u-net.com/Dover.html
Or for the historical background to the way they operate:
http://www.labournet.net/antiracism/0301/mail1.html
> Much of the information concurs with the BBC website.
> Is that racist too?
When it's toeing the government line, which it does a lot more often
than it used to before Thatcher and Blair started putting the boot in.
A successful propaganda campaign like this one (started by fascists
controlling a local Dover newspaper most of Britain has never heard
of) gets less obviously ideological media swept along with it. You
really hit the jackpot when you get the Beeb as your soapbox, as by
then retractions will have very little effect.
> You said I was
> fantasizing. Well, you were wrong. Wrong. Wrong.
> Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Sooooo wrong.
>
> ......Happy Christmas, Mr Oh-Sooo-Wrong! :)
Have you ever left Solihull in your life? How old are you, anyway?
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