Originally Posted by
Partridge
Erm, from right wing racists/fascists like the British National Party / National Front / White Nationalist Party / Combat 18 / Veritas and the far-right of the Tory Party. Because they are the only people I ever hear use terms like that.
I lived in London for a while (literally I moved back to Ireland a week before 911) and I loved it. I had friends (most of them English born oppspring of first or 2nd generation immigrants) that were african, asian, muslim, hindu, rastafarian, christian, atheist, hippy. All sorts. Not to mention white english, scottish and welsh. It was great. Of course, I too was an immigrant! I'm from Ireland - and there's loads of Irish in Britain. Course in the 70s, 80s and 90s the same people baiting muslims used to do it to us - 'they're all in the IRA', 'never trust a Paddy', 'fucking drunken terrorist mick pricks' - hell I experienced some of myself in my three years in the UK. So you'll forgive me if I have a lot of sympathy with 'the new Irish' in the UK. In fact, the parallels are striking in some respects - except dark skinned people are much easier to pick out of a crowd than the Irish ever were.