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[challenge entry] Visit Leicestershire

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(LE7 Cannot proceed above 3000', without ATC clearance, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 18:20, archived)
# Awaits BNP compo
(I helped save b3ta! Gigantic! A big big love!, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 18:21, archived)
# "ethnics"?
are you a 75-year-old Mail reader?
(I helped save b3ta! DogHorse plop, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 18:21, archived)
# Age is irrelevant...
...there is no excuse for reading that sort of shit.
(I helped save b3ta! TunaBoy should be old enough to know better by now, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 18:23, archived)
# Yes...
Yes i am
(LE7 Cannot proceed above 3000', without ATC clearance, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 18:25, archived)
# Next time you do something racist
make sure it is funny/good/has some redeeming features.

That way people won't think you are so much of a cunt.
(I helped save b3ta! Strawberry Dragon, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 18:28, archived)
# ^this^
and why is your name your postcode?
(Sgt Freddy Colon My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 18:31, archived)
# *hates racism*
*loves leicester*
(Sgt Freddy Colon My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 18:24, archived)
# *Searches for the "you racist cunt" button*
(I helped save b3ta! The Coast Of Yemen, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 18:26, archived)
# also
115kB?!?!?!?!!??!??!!!111oneeleven
(I helped save b3ta! CommanderAce If quizzes are quizzical then what are tests?, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 18:26, archived)
# Ignore
the right ons. Publishing facts doesn't make you a racist. Bigotry works both ways.
(I helped save b3ta! Schrodinger, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 18:27, archived)
# Glad your cat's dead
Definitely gone to a B3TA place
(Ronnie Spleen MMMMNEURRGH I AM A GAY SPAZ AND I LOVE IT UP MY BU, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 18:29, archived)
# It isn't dead
We just don't know.
(I helped save b3ta! Schrodinger, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 18:34, archived)
# Let some facts speak for themselves
Population of Leicestershire* = 909,000
Ethnicity of Leicestershire* = 85% white
So, if 15% of 909,00 is 300,000 then LE7 is clearly not racist, merely publishing facts.
On the other hand...

(*including Leicester)
(I helped save b3ta! De nada adan eD, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 23:10, archived)
# Leicester - home of the National Front!
I think that would have made a better mockery of Liecestershire.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 18:27, archived)
# Be
like a newspaper. Why let facts get in the way of a comment?
(I helped save b3ta! Schrodinger, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 18:36, archived)
# So what you are implying is that it's okay
to mock Leicester for the size of it's 'immigrant' sector - because this is fact.

And that John Tydall who formed the National Front from the influencial Leicester Branch during the 70s is actually a good thing even though this is also a fact.

If you say bigorty can work both ways try to see both side of the argument.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 18:41, archived)
# But
I only see *my* side. By definition.

It would seem that lots of people have already seen one particular side. He has been vilified for this view - maybe correctly.

Having said that, maybe the replies are indicative of people posting replies they feel expected to make.
(I helped save b3ta! Schrodinger, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 18:46, archived)
# I feel your defence of his posting
seems to imply that you support his feelings. I'm not condeming what he's saying only that in all fairness Leicester has a shit repution for being the home of many racists too.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 18:49, archived)
# Brilliant
McCarthyism in action. Go guys, go.
(I helped save b3ta! Schrodinger, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 18:52, archived)
# How the fuck to you derive McCarthyism
from what I'm saying?

This is typical of knee-jerk reactionism instead of listening to reasoned debate you jump to wild conclusions about gagging freedom of speech for fuck's sake listen to yourself, and you will see it's you trying to censor my opinion not me censoring his or your opinion.

I'm doing what you said - stating the facts (the NF grew out of Leicester - fact!)
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 18:55, archived)
# This is nothing
to do with "freedom of speech". It is to do with how you interpret my "defending" (none occurred) of the OP's comments.

You effectively called me a racist for my posts in what you perceived as "support" for the OP.

No one is trying to censor anyone here, except for pointing a finger and crying "racist". As you are now more likely to be arrested for racism than possession of a class "c" drug, I think this is quite important.
(I helped save b3ta! Schrodinger, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 19:05, archived)
# I never called anybody a racist - please re-read all my previous comments -
that's your interpretation of my stating the fact that the NF was born out of Leicester.

I'm not calling you a fucking racist, however you have labelled me a McCarthyist. I am however an unaligned free-thinking Socialist and being called a McCarthyist who was a Right-Wing bastard who censored all but right-wing bigotry I find that deeply deeply offensive.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 19:11, archived)
# I see both sides of the argument
cos I'm boss-eyed.
(Fudge Monkey never did, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 18:53, archived)
# Good man!
haha

You are a man aren't you I wouldn't want to make any sweeping generalisations just in case I get accused of being a McCarthyist.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 18:56, archived)
# *checks swiftly*
Yep, still a man.
(Fudge Monkey never did, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 18:58, archived)
# I think
you might be better looking up what effect McCarthy had in the US before making posts like this, which make no sense in the context of McCarthy.
(I helped save b3ta! Schrodinger, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 19:08, archived)
# Fuck off, troll
Don't try to make it out your more intelligent than me and fob me off by telling me to read up on McCarthyism. I've done that a long time ago, love, and I know what McCarthy was about. It is you who is using it out of context by labelling anybody who disagrees with you as a McCarthyist.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 19:15, archived)
# yay!
woo woo woo
(I helped save b3ta! corington, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 19:28, archived)
# hmmm
too big and racist too.

cunt.
(I helped save b3ta! JD if you please? Save The Apostrophes, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 18:35, archived)
# Why
is this racist?

A racist post is one that would say "all black people are horrible". This post simply states facts. What is wrong with you people?

Maybe you are racist because you give this a negative connotation?
(I helped save b3ta! Schrodinger, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 18:38, archived)
# Urm..
because the compo is basically being interpreted as "state how your town is shit"

Thus this post infers that leicester is shit because of its immigrant population, and is therefore racist. It's not fucking rocket science.
(I helped save b3ta! Strawberry Dragon, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 18:41, archived)
# TBF
I think this is more jingoism than racism.
(I helped save b3ta! Schrodinger, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 19:10, archived)
# Think about how a "reasonable person" would interpret the OP
I very much doubt whether any "positive" or "humourous" defence would wash.

Jingoism? Nope (which is externalised, not internalised chauvinism).

Carry on the debate but truly you are on a hiding on this one. I'll defend the OPers right to post but reserve right to call a spadist a spadist. If it dies like a swan, it's probably H5N51. QEfuckingD.

You are a demi-troll, AICMFP
(Ronnie Spleen MMMMNEURRGH I AM A GAY SPAZ AND I LOVE IT UP MY BU, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 19:30, archived)
# Knee-jerk reaction to the word "ethnics"
Mainly because people who use the word use it in a negative way. May not always be true, in the same way that shaven-headed blokes with union jack T-shirts aren't always vicious, bigoted thugs.

Ironically, if LE7'd used the word "darkies", people probably wouldn't have been so upset. Or not. Meh, I don't know.
(I helped save b3ta! foop, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 18:43, archived)
# But if you're going to lampoon Leicester do so
fairly, also state that the racist NF was formed from there.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 18:46, archived)
# hehe
what a surprise, I was beaten to it :)
(I helped save b3ta! Hainesey, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 20:30, archived)