Re: Morrisey's image and quote being used by BNP on Facebook
what? twist away power bottoms...twist away.
You have nothing to contribute to this discussion except insults and deflection. You would do better to ignore the issue. It's been there all along and it won't go away because you feign confusion and make strange insults at people who lay out their thoughts quite clearly. You can, and should, plug your ears and say "I can't hear you," but you can't keep everyone else from realizing that comments about "opening the floodgates" fit a racist agenda. "Life is hard enough when you belong here," passed my attention for years because I'm white and live in a country founded by white people with white privilege written in to the Constitution. I have never had that feeling of being where I didn't belong. But it says, "you do not belong here," and the audacity to put that in a song is shocking. Whether he is aware of it or not that is a very offensive thing to say, especially when you consider that most people who immigrate to England or the United States are from countries that were gleefully exploited for centuries. You must be aware that indigenous peoples were considered a sub-species, and primitive anthropologists wrote what were considered at the time scientific studies to back up this point of view for the purpose of justifying the destruction of many cultures, and the genocide of any "race" who got in the way.
You're either on one side or the other and it's actually really stupid to be so vocal against a monarchy while simultaneously believing that some people are entitled to a right to be here and others are not. The whole idea behind a monarchy is entitlement.
So, why not stick to topics where you have something to add, or, if you feel you have something to add here, say it. All you're doing is trying to block discussion on an issue that you must be intelligent enough to realize can't really be satisfactorily explained away. I love Morrissey's music and probably listened to him when you were a tadpole, which is why I don't dismiss his statements, but that's really what you're doing. No one took anything out of context for their own agenda. The party that uses this image has to be given their due because as repulsive as they are, they are very clever at finding common ground on singular issues. I see people sharing their garbage on Facebook regularly because they will make statements that most people can agree with in isolation. They talk about homeless veterans, for example, which is a problem and a shame. But they will write "Why don't we do as much to help homeless veterans as we do to help immigrants?" That's reasonable. But it's not about the homeless population, it's about those who fought for Britain, which, again, fair enough, but it's also saying, "Aren't you upset that we help immigrants?" The point is that if Morrissey says something that can be used to further a racist agenda, you're really being willfully ignorant to treat him like a child who just says things with no idea of the implications, and to treat the readers of this site like idiots who can be distracted by a few stupid insults.