Post by R. Mark ClaytonPost by YellowI thought, since Gordon Brown, the left realised that calling people
racists no longer makes them run in fear of the label but instead just
pisses them off.
So I wonder who advised Vince Cable that the way to get leavers on side,
to stop Brexit, is to call them a bunch of racists?
But Vince Cable didn't call them a bunch of racists, he said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43367204
'... In his speech on Sunday, Sir Vince said a "nostalgia for a
world where passports were blue, faces were white and the
map was coloured imperial pink" had driven some older voters
to Brexit.
"And it was their votes on one wet day in June which crushed
the hopes and aspirations of young people for years to come,"
he added.
'Asked on BBC Radio 4's Today programme whether he was
suggesting older Brexit voters were racist, Sir Vince said:
"I didn't suggest that at all."
'But he repeated his claim that "nostalgia for that world" was a
factor in how people had voted.
"Why else has so much fuss been made about the change in
the colour of the passport?" he added. '
If you think that amounts to calling people a bunch of racists,
then maybe you are an over-sensitive and slightly paranoid
snowflake. And maybe racist.
I can't imagine a non-racist being so touchy as you about a
suspicion of an implication that they might be racist.
Post by R. Mark ClaytonPost by YellowWay to do Vince! All you have done is make people dig in further. :-)
Actually I was thinking the same about you - your shameless
attempt to spin Cable's words makes me feel even more
strongly averse to the Leaver mindset.
Post by R. Mark ClaytonThe message was that racists voted leave, and too many voted leave for that reason, not that all Leave voters were racist (only about half IME).
Sajid Javid has criticised Sir Vince. Tell you what Sajid - how many white faces do you see in this image (apart from Nigel Farage's light fake tan of course and a couple of press)?
http://static1.uk.businessinsider.com/image/576416d391058424008c9cf2/nigel-farages-new-brexit-poster-was-reported-to-police-over-claims-it-incites-racial-hatred.jpg
The poster was not illegal, but of course it was designed to appeal to [racial and religious] prejudice. Sadly it succeed - appearing just as the postal votes went out to the mainly older people who have them.
Yes, it seems incontrovertible that that poster was intended
to appeal to xenophobia. Not that any Leave voters might be
xenophobes, oh no. How could Farage possibly think that?
Post by R. Mark ClaytonAnyway just in case you hadn't worked it out Vince's speech was not designed to appeal to xenophobic Brextremists - they won't vote Liberal in a month of Thursdays, but to non racists.
Interestingly Steve Bannon has been to France. Their National Front is changing its name and distancing itself from it Holocaust denier* founding father to make itself more electorally attractive. Bannon has told them racism is a badge garlic munching frogs [oops] sorry the French should wear with pride: -
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/12/steve-bannon-tells-france-right-wing-to-embrace-racist-tag.html
* heard him first hand