| Topic: | Clarification | |
| Posted by: | Robin Taylor | |
| Date/Time: | 21/07/10 15:07:00 |
| "Andy Webb", who I have reason to believe spams the forum boards under multiple identities, has used this thread to criticise me for allegedly making racist remarks about Poles. Although it's off the original topic, I think I have the right to defend myself against this charge. Below I have reproduced the entire post that I made on the EalingW5 forum about this issue back in May. Please bear in mind that this came towards the end of a very long thread in which numerous people had chosen to slag off Poles on the basis of individual experiences that they had with them. In the context of this, I hope people will agree that my post was, at the very least, a reasonable attempt to add some balance (even if you don't agree with what I say)... -------------------- It's a shame to see that the Poles are yet another immigrant group who are the subject of prejudice on the W5 forum. G Lord seems to think that it is relevant to highlight an alleged incident of a Polish woman parking across his or her driveway. Why mention this - are we supposed to think bad of all Polish people just because of what you claim one of them did? When I recently saw a young white youth (with a London accent) casually spitting all over the place at a bus stop, should I infer something about all English people from his behaviour? We have quite a lot of Poles in Southall. The ones I have encountered are always polite and conduct themselves with decorum. In fact, when I see a group of white people walking towards me it is invariably a relief to hear Polish accents - as they're generally better behaved than most of the so-called "indigs". I only mention this because others on this thread have also seen fit to make generalisations based purely on empirical evidence. P.S.:- I see that Marie Ann OConnell has used this thread as an excuse to have a good moan about the fact that the term "Paki" is no longer in common usage. Give me strength. @!!**!@!. Would she like it if I used the term "Thickie" to describe people with racist views? Thought not. -------------------- You could argue that it was wrong of me to compare some indigs unfavourably with Poles, but I take the attitude that you cannot effectively counter anti-Polish progaganda with neutral propaganda. Sometimes it's useful to try and say something positive as a counterbalance. (I had, incidentally, thought of mentioning something about the Polish contribution to the Battle of Britain, but that would have left me open to charges of jingoism). |