I used to work with some bloke
who used to sit and read The Daily Mail on his lunch hour and lapped it up like it was gospel the thick cunt.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 8 Mar 2011, 23:30, 25 replies)

Here's a question I've always wondered (that's partially related);
Is it bigoted to hate bigots?

Sorry for the seriousness on a comedy website, but this post and mine below just got me wondering...

EDIT: Never mind, had a few and went into serious debate mode. Off to watch videos of kittens to snap me out of it
(Godwin's Lawyer is more evil than Hitler, Tue 8 Mar 2011, 23:36, closed)

In my case, no
But that's because I occasionally read the Guardian and am therefore automatically superior.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 8 Mar 2011, 23:47, closed)

automatically superior a hand-wringing bed-wetting liberal who'd sell us out to the commies and will wind up first in line for the cattle trucks.
HURRAH FOR THE BLACKSHIRTS!
^cThe Daily Mail
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Wed 9 Mar 2011, 1:22, closed)

The Guardian's just as bad - admittedly it uses prettier polysyllables to describe it's targets.
It's just more passive-aggressive, that's all.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 9:15, closed)

its targets.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 9:48, closed)

Grammar OCD lols

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 10:57, closed)

And it's apparently immune to criticism.
If you dare to question its infallibility, some folk are only too eager to brand you as "anti-intellectual scum" and a "fascist".
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 23:12, closed)

No, they're more backward and less self-aware than most animals.
It should really be legal to put them out of their existential misery and use them as a cheap source of meat instead of pigs or cows, unless total retardation is a transmittable disease.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Tue 8 Mar 2011, 23:50, closed)

Mmmmm...
Tastes like bigotry
(Godwin's Lawyer is more evil than Hitler, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 3:21, closed)

apparently.
I once, understandably I feel, got pissed off with my dad for storming out of an arabic restaurant because of a table of noisy people next to us. When I ran after him to see what was wrong he said "I don't mind them coming to our country, I just don't want to eat with them." Slightly shocked by this I returned to the restaurant and told the story to my mum. "Well, we tend to hide these things from you because we know what your politics are," she retorted. "Honestly, you're so closed-minded."

So there you go. I was a bigot for calling out a bigot on being bigoted.
(orestes is shitting in the 1940s, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 0:22, closed)

No
littlegreenfootballs.com/page/239310_The_Onion-_Open-Minded_Man_Gri
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 9:17, closed)

On a similar topic
I used to go out with a girl who was very active in the field of civil rights, a member of Amnesty International, campaigned for democracy in autocratic regimes, all that sort of thing, etc.

She couldn't see the irony in her handing out leaflets campaigning for the banning of the BNP.

We didn't last very long.

NB. That doesn't mean that I support the BNP of course, but banning them just because you don't like what they have to say is hardly democracy in action.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Wed 9 Mar 2011, 9:53, closed)

Would you have objected the Blackshirts being interned during World War II?

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 23:10, closed)

It's one thing to suggest that those who actively sympathise with an enemy power ought to be detained whilst the country is at war with said power, its another thing entirely to ban a party simply because the politics are distasteful.

The difficulty with freedom of speech is that people tend to use it to say things that other people may find disagreeable.

As abhorrent as I find the BNP's politics, the bit that disturbed me most during the recent elections were the TV pictures showing the twisted, hate filled features of the anti-fascist campaigners screaming at the spam-faced-hate-monger. It wasn't clear where one side started and the other ended.

Don't martyr them, treat them as an irrelevance.
( multijoy, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 23:28, closed)

The BNP are cast from the same mould.
They're the party of choice for madmen, convicted criminals and council estate scum. I say "party", they're more like a terrorist group that wants to seize power by violence and intimidation.

Perhaps the best way to deal with them is with psychological warfare - give them disproportionate attention and large amounts of corporate sponsorship, then plaster them all over every form of media for as long as people can tolerate them and then a bit longer. This will mean a) the general populace will be so irritated with their overexposure they'll rapidly become the most hated people in Britain, b) with greater exposure there's more chance of Nick Griffin fucking up, revealing his admiration of Hitler and having a colossal temper tantrum live on national TV, or c) both.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 23:39, closed)

Council estate scum?
Careful now. 'Scum' is the very language of the BNP, and to apply that epithet to people simply based on where they live is exactly the same thing you accuse them of doing.

The BNP are simply irrelevant. They survive only through the oxygen of publicity, be that negative or positive. Every egg launched at Griffin is one more thing he can point to and say "they're trying to silence us, we must have an important point to make". Every politician who engages with them only serves to legitimise their goals.

But, and this is the big but, this is a democracy. You proscribe a political party at your peril, especially if they actually have a modicum of support; like nonces, they're best kept where you can keep an eye on them.
( multijoy, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 8:44, closed)

A ready-made fifth column at a time of war?
Let's turn this around a bit then Woodsie, do you object to the interment of British supporters of the Taleban at present?
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Thu 10 Mar 2011, 4:32, closed)

lol daily mail
bin dun dude
(Alfonso Bongo BELL AIRE HORSE EXTRAORDINAIRE, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 0:17, closed)

I read the Sun
for me its a whole life imitating art thing. I also like airbrushed boobies
(TwinkleFuckingToes Has a ingrown toe nail, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 10:26, closed)

I need to know what Melanie, 19, from Essex, thinks about geopolitics.

(McChinaman banned, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 12:15, closed)

The Guardian
Is ok, but the weekly shit-parcels written by "Bidisha" under the auspices of "thought for the day" really let it down. She's working for the wrong paper!

www.guardian.co.uk/profile/bidisha
(caescarna Hell's Roomba, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 16:38, closed)

Daily Mail reading boss..
Employed his Daily Mail reading sister in law.

All those homeless people? They do it out of choice, she knew it was true because she read it in the Daily Mail and they wouldn't print lies, how could they, it's a newspaper, they wouldn't get away with making things up or exaggerating stuff.
(ceeej, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 21:07, closed)

But, but...
lip quivers I love the Daily Mail! It's not true?
(TDub Nunc id vides, nunc ne vides on, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 5:58, closed)

Of COURSE it's true.
Dr Goebbels wouldn't lie to us.
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Thu 10 Mar 2011, 6:13, closed)