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 Post subject: 1 in 5 Britons Will Be Ethnics
PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 10:04 am 
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Yeah, you read that right:
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/186563

Pretty poor scaremongering from the Express. And of course, the picture is:
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 Post subject: Re: 1 in 5 Britons Will Be Ethnics
PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 10:05 am 
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Jeebus! Even the baby's wearing a burqa!

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 Post subject: Re: 1 in 5 Britons Will Be Ethnics
PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 11:13 am 
Esqui wrote:
Yeah, you read that right:
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/186563

Pretty poor scaremongering from the Express.


Er...

Quote:
Ethnic minorities are set to make up a fifth of the UK population in 40 years, a University of Leeds study predicts.

It says the proportion of black, Asian and other ethnic minorities will rise from 8% of the population, as recorded in the 2001 census, to 20% by 2051.

Researchers say the population will reach nearly 78 million - up from 59 million in 2001.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/10607480.stm


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 Post subject: Re: 1 in 5 Britons Will Be Ethnics
PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 11:15 am 
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And?

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 Post subject: Re: 1 in 5 Britons Will Be Ethnics
PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 11:26 am 
Malcolm Armsteen wrote:
And?


The only party who could be accused of scaremongering here would be the University of Leeds who produced the report which has been covered extensively in this morning's bulletins and websites, being the lead item on the BBC's editions of both, for example.


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 Post subject: Re: 1 in 5 Britons Will Be Ethnics
PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 11:28 am 
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So you don't think the Express headline is inflammatory?

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 Post subject: Re: 1 in 5 Britons Will Be Ethnics
PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 11:30 am 
Malcolm Armsteen wrote:
So you don't think the Express headline is inflammatory?


Not especially. It appears to be based on fact.


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 Post subject: Re: 1 in 5 Britons Will Be Ethnics
PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 11:31 am 
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OK. I'm just off to slam my head repeatedly in a door...

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 Post subject: Re: 1 in 5 Britons Will Be Ethnics
PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 11:38 am 
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Malcolm Armsteen wrote:
So you don't think the Express headline is inflammatory?



How can a prediction be based on fact? And given the following-


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''''The White British and Irish ethnic groupings are expected to grow very slowly, while the Other White category is projected to grow the fastest, driven by immigration from Europe, the US and Australasia.'''


why did The Express think it necessary to post a photo of some burkha clad Muslim women rather than one of some corked-hatted white Aussies at a barbecue?


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 Post subject: Re: 1 in 5 Britons Will Be Ethnics
PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 11:38 am 
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moonshien wrote:
Malcolm Armsteen wrote:
So you don't think the Express headline is inflammatory?


Not especially. It appears to be based on fact.


You really don't think

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1 in 5 Britons Will Be Ethnics


is more inflammatory than

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UK's ethnic minority numbers 'to rise to 20% by 2051'


Not to mention "will be "Ethnics"" is a cuntish phrase to begin with.....


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 Post subject: Re: 1 in 5 Britons Will Be Ethnics
PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 11:45 am 
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Not to mention "will be "Ethnics"" is a cuntish phrase to begin with.....


Shorthand for 'ethnic minorities'

As to the headlines, the information contained within them is absolutely identical, therefore to accuse one of 'scaremongering' and not the other is irrational.

Futhermore, worries about the impacts of a population of nearly 80 million on the UK's infrastructure and social cohesion are perfectly valid, on economic and environmental grounds alone if nothing else.


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 Post subject: Re: 1 in 5 Britons Will Be Ethnics
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moonshien wrote:
Shorthand for 'ethnic minorities'

In the same way "paki" or "nigger" are shorthand?

moonshien wrote:
As to the headlines, the information contained within them is absolutely identical, therefore to accuse one of 'scaremongering' and not the other is irrational.


It's not even possible for you to think that. The fact that one shows a date of the prediction while the other does shows that it's missing info from one of the headlines.


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 Post subject: Re: 1 in 5 Britons Will Be Ethnics
PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 11:54 am 
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Absolutely not, and I suspect you know it very well.
'Ethnic minorities' is a neutral, if unlovely, phrase. 'Ethnics' is a pejorative term, much loved of the BNP, codeword for 'black or asian'.
Especially so given that a large part of the increase by immigration will be 'other white'.
Other 'ethnics' born here will, of course, be as British as you or I.

Instead of weasel-wording, perhaps we could turn our undoubted intelligence to successfully integrating these new Britons, and not alienating them by, for example, referring to them as 'ethnics'.

And what Kobel said.

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 Post subject: Re: 1 in 5 Britons Will Be Ethnics
PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 12:01 pm 
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5CC has blogged on this, and it's worth a read.

So is this.

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 Post subject: Re: 1 in 5 Britons Will Be Ethnics
PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 12:08 pm 
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George Tait wrote:
...why did The Express think it necessary to post a photo of some burkha clad Muslim women


Exactly.


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