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Comment on Anders Behring Breivik had no legitimate grievance by Edward Graham

Edward Graham — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:48:20 +0000

Whilst we’re at though, I’d check your own use of the English language in your last comment. Ever heard of a question Mark? How silly to point out grammar mistakes whilst making them yourself.

Pathetically silly really.

And you work in Education?

Comment on Anders Behring Breivik had no legitimate grievance by Alana Lentin

Alana Lentin — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:29:16 +0000

Oh dear, how poetic you must have thought you were being. Next time check your apostrophes and ask yourself if it’s (correctly used) so uninteresting, why you are bothering to comment.

Comment on Anders Behring Breivik had no legitimate grievance by Edward Graham

Edward Graham — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:16:23 +0000

If your musings were in any way interesting there would be a little more comments made to your posts. ‘Top ranked peer review journals’ or not.

The eye incorporated in your site design seems a little forlorn seeing as not many people seem to read it’s content.

Comment on Racism and the Censorship of Gay Imperialism by Gabriel Duchamp

Gabriel Duchamp — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:10:39 +0000

GAY AND PROUD! LETS STICK TOGETHER!!

Comment on Anders Behring Breivik had no legitimate grievance by Claire Khaw

Claire Khaw — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:14:33 +0000

Alana Lentin describes the problem ie that people don’t much like uncontrolled immigration, wrings her hands, and then offers no solutions. Still this is what the British taxpayer has been paying left wing academics to do. Perhaps one day soon enough of them will wise up.

Comment on Anders Behring Breivik had no legitimate grievance by Alana Lentin

Alana Lentin — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 03:56:24 +0000

if my logic is flimsy, i wonder what the commenter’s is. Interesting how they think that those in the margins of academia like myself can nonetheless publish in top ranked peer reviewed journals!

Comment on Anders Behring Breivik had no legitimate grievance by Edward Graham

Edward Graham — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:52:11 +0000

Interesting that the Author of this most edifying blog would not even bother to either delete or dispute the above comment. And congrats to the writer of the comment above. More and more people are beginning to see through the flimsy, duplicitous logic of the likes of Ms Lentin. I’d imagine she can only look forward to being pushed more to the extreme margins of the academic world, where she and others like her belong.

Comment on The (anti)Discrimination Wars by Alana Lentin

Alana Lentin — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 07:35:16 +0000

I couldn’t have put it better myself but people like Strudeick are bent on the all too readily accepted stereotype!

Comment on The (anti)Discrimination Wars by Tom Barber

Tom Barber — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 03:13:39 +0000

Being a gay man myself and somebody who has spent the last four years living and studying in Bradford, a city with a large Muslim population, I feel I can say this:
Yes there are people in the Gay community who are Islamaphobic just the same way as there are people in the Muslim community who are homophobic but these phobic minority groups are not representative of the respective communities as a whole. I think that the basic problem is that the two communities are seen by many as upholding values that are in complete antithesis with each other. Whilst the Gay community is quite stereotypically seen as hedonistic and standing for individual rights (especially sexual rights) and flamboyancy and pushing moral boundaries, the Muslim community is quite stereotypically seen as standing for moral and social conformity verging on fanaticism, modesty in all things especially dress, and general backwardness.
Problems arise when elements within one group feel that their own belief system should be used to ‘morally correct’ the other and then try to push these beliefs upon them.
What people forget is that there are so many things that every one of us on the planet has in common. These are the basic human instincts we are born with that do not form as part of our belonging to one society or another. We all feel strong family bonds. We all (or most of us at least) fall in love at some point in our lives. We all cry when we are hurt or upset, and crucially we all turn to others when we really need somebody’s help. What we should be focussing on, then, are these similarities – they can form a starting point for discussion. If we all stopped worrying about what makes us different whilst at the same time respecting each other’s rights to exist very differently, and concentrated on places where we could find common ground between all the different groups which make up the global society then not only would the world be a much safer, happier place to live in but we may just find that we all have much more in common than we ever thought possible, and who knows these two groups mentioned above may not only learn things that are beneficial to each other but they may just find (basic stereotypical belief systems aside of course) that they even like each other as people.

Comment on EDL Appearance on Newsnight Exemplifies Postracialism by David Gwynne

David Gwynne — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:01:45 +0000

You are either completely uneducated or completely lacking in common sense. Or, possibly, you are simply unwilling to see anything but evidence of inequality.

You are blatantly, obviously, fatally, taking Paxman’s statement completely in the wrong light. There is absolutely no doubt that what he is referring to when saying “a lot of people are worried”, are the people who are worried about the EDL’s presence on the streets in protests. You know that, and I know that.

You are not helping any situation for the country’s ethnic diversity or equality by clutching at thin air for evidence of widespread racism or “failure to match the incendiary tone” of radical anti-Muslim groups. The ONLY thing you are doing is making intelligent, open-minded and free-thinking people such as myself and many others weary of this attitude towards anyone who isn’t so “left-wing” they want to see everything that isn’t “ethnic” tarnished with the brush of “post-racism” or “post-racialism”.

Did it ever occur to you that Paxman might not be matching the “incendiary tone” because the EDL spokesman is un-educated, and Paxman educated? And therefore more useful to utilise intellect than raw emotion? Further, did it not cross your mind that the BBC is supposed to be to the extent possible an un-biased, informative service?

For the sake of your own cause, please try to include only actual evidence on your blog, and stop wasting everyone’s time.

I’d really appreciate your response.