Further to my recent contribution, having listened to an edition of “Word

Comment on Are the BNP Racists? by Andrew.

Further to my recent contribution, having listened to an edition of “Word of Mouth” on Radio 4, in which the opinion of George Orwell was discussed, it seems to me that people bandy words like “racist” or “fascist” about without the slightest thought as to what they actually mean.

Orwell did point to the word “fascist” as an example. He said the word meant, nowadays, anything at all that you don’t like – or words to that effect. Logically, therefore, this habit of the wider journalistic fraternity of putting words like “fascist” and “racist” in front of, in the same sentence as, or in-such-a-way-as-to-make-clear-how-objectionable the word BNP essentially means nothing but, is nevertheless very effective in leading the sheep to believe that the BNP are the worst thing to happen to this country since Katherine of Anjou.

The point is, surely, that if anyone believes the BNP to be racist, then either they haven’t read the party’s statement of aims, or else haven’t got the foggiest what “racism” actually is.