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Stout Yeoman's avatar

Rapid mass immigration has unsettled people who react viscerally rather than think things through.

In November 2023, while wearing poppies on the Saturday before Cenotaph Sunday, we had to wade through thousands of masked people on their way to that day's march in support of Hamas. As two masked men drew level with us they noticed the popplies on two elderly white people and said "f*ckers" as they walked past. I suppose we were lucky the assault was merely verbal.

It was clear there was no 'we' anymore. The experience did not make me a white ethno-nationalist but I can see how the doctrine of multiculturalism, and vilification of anyone who questions it, can provoke polarisation. Yes, white nationalists have agency and are accountable, but one can see how two tier policing, two tier justice, and preferential housing for migrants from cultures alien, hostile even, to our own, produce the polarisation that leads to attacking poor Frank, a very decent English bloke.

White ethno-nationalism is a secondary phenomenon. The primary cause is diastrous goverment.

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Gary Taylor's avatar

Once the Identity Politics cat was out of the bag, there was no way it wouldn't be adopted by the natives.

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andy.carey@uwclub.net's avatar

"The right is lost." Seems to have some supporters e.g. yourself in respect of Eastern Europe. in the lead up to 2021 Ukraine was becoming an ethno nationalist entity, banning state 9+ education in Russian, foreign media production, dual road signs, and three russian language tv channels. They were on course to ban some types of commerce in Russian even if both sides consented. Since the war started Ukraine has banned opposition parties, and has no opposition in its war cabinet and last year banned god. Sorry, the russian church. There might be a quibble in all that, but there's no way that Crimeans and other majority Russian speaking oblasts are going to live under that fascist schit.

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