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[Guest bovril]

Look I am not being a tit in Dagenham BNP won bloody half a dozen to a dozen seats. This is because they targetted working class whites their who gladly voted for them. That is the only place they won seats. I hate racist f*cks did you know nearly 400,000 people voted for BNP and National front they should be all shot.

 

The reason people have been voting for the BNP in such areas as you mention has got more to do with social deprivation and the failings of the Labour party than outright racism.  If you take an already deprived area, and then place people who themselves are deprived in someway (as Asylum Seekers tend to be) into these areas, it's not rocket science to work out between who tensions will build up.  The consequence is groups like the BNP who will try to take advantage of this, further stiring things up in order to create even more division.

 

So I was just saying that working class whites tend to be more racist I even been taught that in school how in america it was the same during the Civil Rights Movement

 

next time your in school you could ask about the Millions of white working class people who lost their lives in the defeat of Hitler, do they count?

 

 

[brummie]

Racism takes different forms. The BNP votes mentioned are, in my opinion,  a result of primarily working class racism (note, I don't mean that being working class means you are racist, I mean racism amongst working class people) being expressed through BNP votes.

 

I also don't buy this "they're voting BNP because of social deprivation, not because of  racism" argument either. Look at who the BNP blame the deprivation on, for a start. Blaming it all on a scapegoat is easy, and it works. Look at Germany in the early 30s for the best example.

 

Middle class racism tends to manifest itself in many different ways - supporting the more right wing elements of the Conservative party, voting for UKIP (I'm not saying UKIP voters are all racist, just that their support base is to a large degree xenophobic and xenophobia and racism often go together), angry letters to the Daily Mail etc etc

 

They're both wrong.

[Guest bovril]

Racism takes different forms. The BNP votes mentioned are, in my opinion,  a result of primarily working class racism (note, I don't mean that being working class means you are racist, I mean racism amongst working class people) being expressed through BNP votes.

 

I'm not saying that racism does not exist amongst the working class (white or otherwise), far from it.  But most of the racism i've encountered tends to be down to ignorance more than anything else.

 

I also don't buy this "they're voting BNP because of social deprivation, not because of  racism" argument either. Look at who the BNP blame the deprivation on, for a start. Blaming it all on a scapegoat is easy, and it works. Look at Germany in the early 30s for the best example.

 

Exactly, the BNP blame deprivation on the non-white parts of a community, and not on the governments failings on that whole community.  The example of Germany in the early 30's is not a good reference for today.  For a start the Nazi's were supported by Germany's ruling elite and big business in it's rise to power.  They saw Hitler as the only answer to the threat of International Socialism that was sweeping europe at the time.  I can't see the British esablishment supporting the BNP however... Although I can see the British government moving more right wing in order to pick up possible BNP votes.