Fascist Sympathiser

Comment on BNP on Question Time by David.

“I haven’t read the full conversation, but I read your article and came to the conclusion that you’re a fascist sympathiser.”

Had you read all my responses you’d have read:

“After all in June 2009 943,598 British people voted for the BNP, 6.2% of voters! Clearly the message that the BNP are not to be voted for is not getting through to the people on the street : I can not believe that almost 1,000,000 British people believe what Nick Griffin believes, that the holocaust didn’t happen (again didn’t get this info from mainstream media).”

and

“If the British people are not told the truth they will believe the lies from the BNP and I think the only guaranteed way of getting the truth to the British people (the ones who might vote BNP not realising they are racist/anti-Semitic) is through mainstream media.

Clearly with almost a million votes the current policy of not engaging the BNP has failed, unless people think 6% of the vote is successful?”

and

“However, even if the site does as well as most of my sites tend to do, it’s highly unlikely to make a difference to those that might vote BNP because they don’t understand what the BNP really stands for. The sort of people who are swayed (tricked even) by BNP ideas (watered down racism) are not going to do research and find the BNP are racist, period.

I’m also not sure if having the BNP on Question Time will help either, do the sort of people who believe solutions like removing all immigrants from the UK is good for the country watch QT? I doubt it, but I still think it’s a good idea to engage people like this because ignoring them hasn’t worked.”

and responding to your post at www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=156791458824&topic=9940

“”The BBC has never given me a political platform with which to be heard. I’m willing to bet that the BBC has never given you such a platform, either.”

Have you ever gained almost a million votes in an election?

If the Monster Raving Looney Party gained a million votes in the next general election on dumb ass policies, would you have a problem with it’s leader appearing on QT?

It’s contradiction to say they can exercise their democratic rights as a political party, but not to be heard via mainstream media like other political parties!”

To answer your question regarding extending my logic. Had you read the entire thread (and you had half a brain) you’d have realised my argument is based on the BNP has already gained a foothold in mainstream British politics (BNP 6%, Greens 8%) and I believe one way (I don’t know if it’s the best way) is to deal with them direct through mainstream media so the sort of people who might vote BNP, but not for out right racist reasons will see what the BNP stand for and think twice before voting for a racist political party.

Like I asked you in the other thread regarding your lack of an invite on QT, does your hypothetical Muslim extremist have nearly a million votes from the British people? No you say, well why would I support their invite on QT based on my arguments above?? Had this Muslim extremist somehow gained a foothold in British politics like the BNP have then yes, put him on QT and exposes his views to the public for what they are.

Unfortunately this also extends to Hitler, if Hitler/someone like Hitler gained a million British votes we have a problem that needs to be dealt with. You need to look back at history and take a lesson from it, the Nazi party was banned in Germany in the mid 1920s, Hitler was imprisoned for treason. 1924 and 1928 they got less than 3% of the German vote, but two short years later the German economy was in crisis and the Nazi party gained almost 1/5th of the vote in the 1930 election! It doesn’t look like we are going to go into a depression, but what if we did and we had mass unemployment and people starving in the streets, do you not see the BNP seizing on this and blaming immigration? Easy solution, kick out all the foreigners and all ‘true’ British people will get a job and live happily ever after!

So because you didn’t read the entire thread, you made a snap judgment on someone and called them a fascist sympathiser and even now when your error is pointed out you still didn’t read the entire thread and see the truth.

An intelligent person would have read the entire thread and corrected their error and even apologised (I would if I made such a mistake). I’m afraid you are presenting yourself as a poorly educated bigot!

You’ve also turned this thread from an interesting discussion into the sort of thread I’m sure the BNP enjoy. Rather than discussing the issues and maybe thinking of solutions, you’ve turned it into a mud slinging contest.

I’ve made my point and I’m done responding to you, waste of time, your mind is closed to anything you don’t agree with.

David