Antimulticulture
2005-10-30 12:09:21 UTC
The Truth Behind Britain's Riots
http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19998
By Theodore Dalrymple
October 28, 2005
The rumour that a 14-year-old black girl had been caught shoplifting by a
Pakistani shopkeeper in the Lozells area of Birmingham, and subsequently
raped in revenge by a score of his compatriots, is highly reminiscent of the
blood libels that used to sweep through Tsarist Russia at the end of the
19th century and led to vicious pogroms.
According to the standard blood libel, Jews would abduct a young Christian
and drain him of all his blood for ceremonial or sacrificial purposes. The
fact than no one ever witnessed such a ceremony or sacrifice only added a
sinister verisimilitude to the rumours: for, of course, all ritual murders
were carried out in the strictest privacy, and therefore by their very
nature could never be witnessed.
The girl in Lozells has not been found (I should be very surprised if she
were), nor has she come forward to tell us of her terrible ordeal, and by
now, she is in any case completely irrelevant to the situation. For it is in
the nature of such allegations that, even if false, they are true, at least
in the minds of those who are determined to believe them.
Lozells is a very run-down district, full of sleazy cafés, inhabited by many
people of Jamaican origin and notorious for the drug dealing that goes on
there. I do not think that anyone would call it an outpost of sexual or
bourgeois propriety, though there is still, particularly among the women, a
strong church-going, hat-and-glove-wearing element. It is not a place for a
quiet evening stroll. The surgeons of the hospital that serves it have, in
late years, become much more experienced at dealing with bullet wounds.
Adjacent is the much more ethnically mixed Handsworth, famous for its riots,
especially in good weather, but once a leafy suburb. Here are to be found
sari shops, purveyors of Indian sweets, greengrocers selling 10kg sacks of
onions for £1.49, and butchers who, by means of prominent signs in their
windows, advise their customers to read the Koran.
It is one of the complaints of the people of Lozells that Pakistani
shopkeepers have taken over the small businesses of Lozells that sell items
of special interest to people of Caribbean origin. These small businesses
used to belong to blacks, but do so no longer. This is deemed to be
humiliating, and somehow a manifestation of a wider injustice.
Relations between the two "communities" (which themselves are hardly
monolithic in their composition, attitudes or conduct) are far from warm. It
is the complaint of some blacks that the Pakistanis do not treat them with
the respect that it is every man's due, a respect that, in the minds of at
least some young men, is indistinguishable from fear. And it is certainly
true that people from the Indian subcontinent are hardly free from racial
prejudice, and that for many of them a black man is several rungs below the
top of the human ladder - at the very bottom, in fact.
On the other hand, you don't have to speak to many shopkeepers in Lozells,
or areas like it, to hear of experiences that disincline them to a
favourable impression of black youth; and, like most people, they generalise
from one or several bad experiences, and make assumptions about everyone who
physically and culturally resembles those of whom they have had those bad
experiences. The Pakistanis may not believe that the 14- year-old girl was
serially raped, but they will have no difficulty at all in believing that
she shoplifted.
Such are the joys of multi-culturalism. The situation has, in my view, been
inflamed by years of reflex political correctness on the part of the
authorities and the authors of official reports that coin phrases such as
"institutionalised racism" - a blood libel, in the sense of being impossible
to disprove, if ever there was one.
We now live in a political culture in which a sense of grievance stands as
its own justification: you are wronged if you think you are. Thus, the
definition of bullying employed by many NHS trusts for disciplinary purposes
is merely that someone should feel bullied: there is no requirement whatever
to establish that it is reasonable that he should feel thus bullied. The
reason for this absurdity is not hard to seek: it increases the power and
provides the locus standi of bureaucrats to interfere endlessly in the lives
of employees, and gives them the extra work by which they prove the
indispensable nature of their posts. The more grievances the better,
therefore.
The resentment caused by the takeover of businesses in Lozells by Pakistani
businessmen is, of course, absurd, though it has been offered as a reason
for the frustration of some of the local rioters. Unless the businessmen
took over by illicit means - for example, by force and intimidation, which
seems to me most unlikely - they must have done so because they were better
or more dedicated businessmen than those they replaced, shrewd and prepared
to work long hours, as well as to employ members of their family in the
running of the businesses. In short, they offered customers better service
than their predecessors.
It is characteristic of the grievance culture that it should encourage
people to blame others for their discontents, rather than to reflect upon
themselves to find possible ways out of the impasses in which they find
themselves.
In some circumstances, of course, there really are institutional barriers to
self-improvement: under apartheid, for example - though even under that
system's grotesquely unjust laws it was possible to do better or worse. Be
that as it may, nothing like apartheid exists in Lozells (unless it be
self-inflicted) to explain the present discontents.
[Ed. Under apartheid, a white-minority ran the joint, the whites were
hard-working, the economy was booming and the streets of South Africa were
safe and the black majority had very little. Under the ANC, a minority of
blacks run the joint, the whites are hard-working, the streets are a
war-zone, the economy is at a standstill and the black majority have even
less - thus to blame "Apartheid" is illogical, the fault lies solely with
the blacks and their inability to govern themselves...]
We have reached the stage when it is difficult even to speak publicly of
such matters as the Lozells riots with frankness and without
self-censorship, but only the abandonment of politically correct speech and
thought will prevent repetition and worse than repetition. It is not so much
the truth that will set us free, but the ability and willingness to seek it
fearlessly.
Of all the paradoxes of the situation, none is greater than that the Muslim
traders of Lozells, among whom an unthinking anti-Semitism is probably
widespread, should now find themselves in the position of the petty-trading
Jews of Tsarist Russia, Moldavia and Romania.
[Ed. Even the blacks don't like 'em, that speaks volumes...]
--
Jim
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Western_Nationalist
Union Against Multiculty
"Abolish Multiculty and String Up The Traitors!"
http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19998
By Theodore Dalrymple
October 28, 2005
The rumour that a 14-year-old black girl had been caught shoplifting by a
Pakistani shopkeeper in the Lozells area of Birmingham, and subsequently
raped in revenge by a score of his compatriots, is highly reminiscent of the
blood libels that used to sweep through Tsarist Russia at the end of the
19th century and led to vicious pogroms.
According to the standard blood libel, Jews would abduct a young Christian
and drain him of all his blood for ceremonial or sacrificial purposes. The
fact than no one ever witnessed such a ceremony or sacrifice only added a
sinister verisimilitude to the rumours: for, of course, all ritual murders
were carried out in the strictest privacy, and therefore by their very
nature could never be witnessed.
The girl in Lozells has not been found (I should be very surprised if she
were), nor has she come forward to tell us of her terrible ordeal, and by
now, she is in any case completely irrelevant to the situation. For it is in
the nature of such allegations that, even if false, they are true, at least
in the minds of those who are determined to believe them.
Lozells is a very run-down district, full of sleazy cafés, inhabited by many
people of Jamaican origin and notorious for the drug dealing that goes on
there. I do not think that anyone would call it an outpost of sexual or
bourgeois propriety, though there is still, particularly among the women, a
strong church-going, hat-and-glove-wearing element. It is not a place for a
quiet evening stroll. The surgeons of the hospital that serves it have, in
late years, become much more experienced at dealing with bullet wounds.
Adjacent is the much more ethnically mixed Handsworth, famous for its riots,
especially in good weather, but once a leafy suburb. Here are to be found
sari shops, purveyors of Indian sweets, greengrocers selling 10kg sacks of
onions for £1.49, and butchers who, by means of prominent signs in their
windows, advise their customers to read the Koran.
It is one of the complaints of the people of Lozells that Pakistani
shopkeepers have taken over the small businesses of Lozells that sell items
of special interest to people of Caribbean origin. These small businesses
used to belong to blacks, but do so no longer. This is deemed to be
humiliating, and somehow a manifestation of a wider injustice.
Relations between the two "communities" (which themselves are hardly
monolithic in their composition, attitudes or conduct) are far from warm. It
is the complaint of some blacks that the Pakistanis do not treat them with
the respect that it is every man's due, a respect that, in the minds of at
least some young men, is indistinguishable from fear. And it is certainly
true that people from the Indian subcontinent are hardly free from racial
prejudice, and that for many of them a black man is several rungs below the
top of the human ladder - at the very bottom, in fact.
On the other hand, you don't have to speak to many shopkeepers in Lozells,
or areas like it, to hear of experiences that disincline them to a
favourable impression of black youth; and, like most people, they generalise
from one or several bad experiences, and make assumptions about everyone who
physically and culturally resembles those of whom they have had those bad
experiences. The Pakistanis may not believe that the 14- year-old girl was
serially raped, but they will have no difficulty at all in believing that
she shoplifted.
Such are the joys of multi-culturalism. The situation has, in my view, been
inflamed by years of reflex political correctness on the part of the
authorities and the authors of official reports that coin phrases such as
"institutionalised racism" - a blood libel, in the sense of being impossible
to disprove, if ever there was one.
We now live in a political culture in which a sense of grievance stands as
its own justification: you are wronged if you think you are. Thus, the
definition of bullying employed by many NHS trusts for disciplinary purposes
is merely that someone should feel bullied: there is no requirement whatever
to establish that it is reasonable that he should feel thus bullied. The
reason for this absurdity is not hard to seek: it increases the power and
provides the locus standi of bureaucrats to interfere endlessly in the lives
of employees, and gives them the extra work by which they prove the
indispensable nature of their posts. The more grievances the better,
therefore.
The resentment caused by the takeover of businesses in Lozells by Pakistani
businessmen is, of course, absurd, though it has been offered as a reason
for the frustration of some of the local rioters. Unless the businessmen
took over by illicit means - for example, by force and intimidation, which
seems to me most unlikely - they must have done so because they were better
or more dedicated businessmen than those they replaced, shrewd and prepared
to work long hours, as well as to employ members of their family in the
running of the businesses. In short, they offered customers better service
than their predecessors.
It is characteristic of the grievance culture that it should encourage
people to blame others for their discontents, rather than to reflect upon
themselves to find possible ways out of the impasses in which they find
themselves.
In some circumstances, of course, there really are institutional barriers to
self-improvement: under apartheid, for example - though even under that
system's grotesquely unjust laws it was possible to do better or worse. Be
that as it may, nothing like apartheid exists in Lozells (unless it be
self-inflicted) to explain the present discontents.
[Ed. Under apartheid, a white-minority ran the joint, the whites were
hard-working, the economy was booming and the streets of South Africa were
safe and the black majority had very little. Under the ANC, a minority of
blacks run the joint, the whites are hard-working, the streets are a
war-zone, the economy is at a standstill and the black majority have even
less - thus to blame "Apartheid" is illogical, the fault lies solely with
the blacks and their inability to govern themselves...]
We have reached the stage when it is difficult even to speak publicly of
such matters as the Lozells riots with frankness and without
self-censorship, but only the abandonment of politically correct speech and
thought will prevent repetition and worse than repetition. It is not so much
the truth that will set us free, but the ability and willingness to seek it
fearlessly.
Of all the paradoxes of the situation, none is greater than that the Muslim
traders of Lozells, among whom an unthinking anti-Semitism is probably
widespread, should now find themselves in the position of the petty-trading
Jews of Tsarist Russia, Moldavia and Romania.
[Ed. Even the blacks don't like 'em, that speaks volumes...]
--
Jim
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Western_Nationalist
Union Against Multiculty
"Abolish Multiculty and String Up The Traitors!"