Re: the Henry Nowak atrocity ... On some very important social/societal matters, too much media have gone far beyond simply being biased. They simply have corrupted themselves.
While racism and racial discrimination need to be challenged in their entirety, especially racially motivated violent acts, there are injustices and victimizations that get mis-reported or ignored as though those injustices/victimizations are ideologically and therefore socially/politically acceptable.
The media (i.e. news, non-fiction literary, social and entertainment), though especially the 'woke' mainstream news outlets, can largely be credited for the creation and maintenance of current societal/institutional racial standards and even hypocrisies in Western society.
Anti-Caucasian racism or violence, for example, can be expected to not receive objective coverage, if any at all, by the neo-liberal news media, quite unlike when the racial makeup is reversed. It's likely they deem such occurrences, however newsworthy, as not being a social/societal problem and therefore un-worthy of proper coverage.
Over my decades of news consumption, I’ve heard this justification more than once, although it’s not even their professional/objective prerogative to do so in the first place. They also appear to (erroneously) believe they can be both journalistically activistic AND truly objective/professional.
According to my journalism instructor approximately three decades ago, the probable rarity of such an assault (in this case, anti-Caucasian racism or violence) would make it newsworthy; and the opposite would apply to the common or usual occurrence, such as that resulting from a recurring social/societal problem.
Also, all the more disturbing and concerning about that news media’s failure to condemn or even properly cover such racist assaults is that it encourages the justice system to not objectively/fully charge and prosecute those responsible.
Not only can the racists (of color) not be held properly criminally accountable, they may also notice the news outlets downplaying or omitting the racial motivation behind such serious crimes, perhaps leaving the impression that the inexcusably vicious acts were somehow morally justified. It’s in our flawed, if not corrupted, human nature (especially as children) to observe such societal cues and take advantage of them.
Yet, the mainstream news-media's distortion and diversion continues.
And there still are reporters and editors who will (as though with big innocent fawn-like eyes) reply to accusations of subjective or compromised journalism with: ‘Who, me? I’m just the messenger.’ ... The news media are not ‘just the messenger’; nor are they but a reflection of the community — or their consumer base, for that matter — in which they circulate.
Maybe compromised journalism has become normalized, along with ethical standards gradually lowering (perhaps with a lowering of moral standards?). Although news-media bias is a form of corruption, it's deemed acceptable from within — perhaps because it has been around for a very long time and everybody's doing it.
What astonishes me, though, is how such news-media professionals can afterwards sleep at night or look their little children/grandchildren in the face everyday?
P.S. I don’t like or dislike the Caucasian (my) race. If anything, I’m more likely to be critical. Also, without getting into all of the specifics, I’m noticeably more comfortable in the company of women of colour, especially those of South and East Asian heritage.
Governments can properly regulate immigration or voters will toss those politicians out. That's simply the mood in the West this decade.
Mette Frederiksen may have lost ground in the recent Danish election. But she's now leading a more left-leaning coalition than the previous one. If there's any hope for Labour, they should start thinking "it's better like Mette".
There need to be rational restrictions on new immigration while protecting the rights of those who are living productive lives in Western countries. If immigration is perceived as spiraling out of control, you'll simply end up with countries run by Reform, the AfD, and MAGA. Preventing unauthorized immigrants from arriving in the first place is the least fraught solution.
"HMO Britain is snowballing from a tale of certain postcodes into a national story. Last year brought 82,100 applications for asylum in the UK – slightly lower than in 2024, but still the third highest total on record. The world is unstable, on the move, and the British state is an unfit host: failing to build homes at a rate fast enough for its citizens, let alone the newcomers desperate to reach its shores."
This is the myopic permissively progressive leftist argument in action once again. Alas, in The New Statesman. We deserve better. We deserve journalism and informed enquiry that transcends 20th-century political stripes and their tiresome tropes.
We deserve journalism with the courage to step back, observe, analyse, and report and argue on the basic bloody facts. The UK is a dependent island. And England has a population density approaching that of a fish farm.
The issue is not ‘failing to build homes at a rate fast enough’. It is in believing that there’s a limitless supply of space to do so. And that covering it in concrete and limitless 'newcomers' is wise. Until the woke awaken, they continue to deserve my contempt. Unfortunately, they're going to get Farage's.
It is ironic how staid and anachronistic the leftists’ once-progressive “moral” argument has become. If they were genuinely forward-thinking, they would evince the ability to foresee the outcomes of their causes and alter them as is now necessary. Lacking that, they are no better than those who voted for Brexit and then left the country. There is a point at which progress entails liberal conservation (with a small "c").
The solution for citizens' homes is economic. The solution for newcomers' homes is rejection.
Abundant Sovereign Energy + Population Density Control = Peaceable Happy Land. Do the maths.
[I use the word "leftists" as a floating open-minded voter for whom the square root of no one on either (far-)left or (far-)right encapsulates everything I believe is needed to fix this bloody mess. And I am disappointed in The NS because its editor(s) ought to know better.]
There are, unfortunately, many incidents of violence, murder, assault, rioting etc. carried out by white people of British heritage. In fact many more than by people of foreign heritage. Do we, on that basis, demonise all white people in the country? Of course not, it would be absurd. So why, when someone of non-British heritage does something bad, do you tar all people of similar heritage despite their having no connection?
People who understand BLM know it means "black & brown lives matter as much as white ones". Not more, simply the same.
Re: the Henry Nowak atrocity ... On some very important social/societal matters, too much media have gone far beyond simply being biased. They simply have corrupted themselves.
While racism and racial discrimination need to be challenged in their entirety, especially racially motivated violent acts, there are injustices and victimizations that get mis-reported or ignored as though those injustices/victimizations are ideologically and therefore socially/politically acceptable.
The media (i.e. news, non-fiction literary, social and entertainment), though especially the 'woke' mainstream news outlets, can largely be credited for the creation and maintenance of current societal/institutional racial standards and even hypocrisies in Western society.
Anti-Caucasian racism or violence, for example, can be expected to not receive objective coverage, if any at all, by the neo-liberal news media, quite unlike when the racial makeup is reversed. It's likely they deem such occurrences, however newsworthy, as not being a social/societal problem and therefore un-worthy of proper coverage.
Over my decades of news consumption, I’ve heard this justification more than once, although it’s not even their professional/objective prerogative to do so in the first place. They also appear to (erroneously) believe they can be both journalistically activistic AND truly objective/professional.
According to my journalism instructor approximately three decades ago, the probable rarity of such an assault (in this case, anti-Caucasian racism or violence) would make it newsworthy; and the opposite would apply to the common or usual occurrence, such as that resulting from a recurring social/societal problem.
Also, all the more disturbing and concerning about that news media’s failure to condemn or even properly cover such racist assaults is that it encourages the justice system to not objectively/fully charge and prosecute those responsible.
Not only can the racists (of color) not be held properly criminally accountable, they may also notice the news outlets downplaying or omitting the racial motivation behind such serious crimes, perhaps leaving the impression that the inexcusably vicious acts were somehow morally justified. It’s in our flawed, if not corrupted, human nature (especially as children) to observe such societal cues and take advantage of them.
Yet, the mainstream news-media's distortion and diversion continues.
And there still are reporters and editors who will (as though with big innocent fawn-like eyes) reply to accusations of subjective or compromised journalism with: ‘Who, me? I’m just the messenger.’ ... The news media are not ‘just the messenger’; nor are they but a reflection of the community — or their consumer base, for that matter — in which they circulate.
Maybe compromised journalism has become normalized, along with ethical standards gradually lowering (perhaps with a lowering of moral standards?). Although news-media bias is a form of corruption, it's deemed acceptable from within — perhaps because it has been around for a very long time and everybody's doing it.
What astonishes me, though, is how such news-media professionals can afterwards sleep at night or look their little children/grandchildren in the face everyday?
P.S. I don’t like or dislike the Caucasian (my) race. If anything, I’m more likely to be critical. Also, without getting into all of the specifics, I’m noticeably more comfortable in the company of women of colour, especially those of South and East Asian heritage.
Governments can properly regulate immigration or voters will toss those politicians out. That's simply the mood in the West this decade.
Mette Frederiksen may have lost ground in the recent Danish election. But she's now leading a more left-leaning coalition than the previous one. If there's any hope for Labour, they should start thinking "it's better like Mette".
There need to be rational restrictions on new immigration while protecting the rights of those who are living productive lives in Western countries. If immigration is perceived as spiraling out of control, you'll simply end up with countries run by Reform, the AfD, and MAGA. Preventing unauthorized immigrants from arriving in the first place is the least fraught solution.
"HMO Britain is snowballing from a tale of certain postcodes into a national story. Last year brought 82,100 applications for asylum in the UK – slightly lower than in 2024, but still the third highest total on record. The world is unstable, on the move, and the British state is an unfit host: failing to build homes at a rate fast enough for its citizens, let alone the newcomers desperate to reach its shores."
This is the myopic permissively progressive leftist argument in action once again. Alas, in The New Statesman. We deserve better. We deserve journalism and informed enquiry that transcends 20th-century political stripes and their tiresome tropes.
We deserve journalism with the courage to step back, observe, analyse, and report and argue on the basic bloody facts. The UK is a dependent island. And England has a population density approaching that of a fish farm.
The issue is not ‘failing to build homes at a rate fast enough’. It is in believing that there’s a limitless supply of space to do so. And that covering it in concrete and limitless 'newcomers' is wise. Until the woke awaken, they continue to deserve my contempt. Unfortunately, they're going to get Farage's.
It is ironic how staid and anachronistic the leftists’ once-progressive “moral” argument has become. If they were genuinely forward-thinking, they would evince the ability to foresee the outcomes of their causes and alter them as is now necessary. Lacking that, they are no better than those who voted for Brexit and then left the country. There is a point at which progress entails liberal conservation (with a small "c").
The solution for citizens' homes is economic. The solution for newcomers' homes is rejection.
Abundant Sovereign Energy + Population Density Control = Peaceable Happy Land. Do the maths.
[I use the word "leftists" as a floating open-minded voter for whom the square root of no one on either (far-)left or (far-)right encapsulates everything I believe is needed to fix this bloody mess. And I am disappointed in The NS because its editor(s) ought to know better.]
Why is "white" the most important word?
I believe White lives matter just like
Brown--Black--people lives matters
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I do not go to their county trashing it protesting on their streets
like they do in the U.K. NOW
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And I pay for the clean up bills as a taxpayer in the U.K.
There are, unfortunately, many incidents of violence, murder, assault, rioting etc. carried out by white people of British heritage. In fact many more than by people of foreign heritage. Do we, on that basis, demonise all white people in the country? Of course not, it would be absurd. So why, when someone of non-British heritage does something bad, do you tar all people of similar heritage despite their having no connection?
People who understand BLM know it means "black & brown lives matter as much as white ones". Not more, simply the same.
How Britain lost control
firstly we White British people have NOT lost control we are just biding our
time we are very patient White people in the U.K.
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How Britain lost control
You are correct about our elected Govt in U.K.
Tory-Labour-Lib-Dem party alike have all lost control
of mass illegal immigration and the Terrorist boat people
flooding our country now and they will be a price to pay
at next G.E.
When we put a new Govt party in power in the U.K.
What are you doing, reading a New Statesman article? Are you a spy?
NOT A spy ---But a U.K. White citizen in U.K.
I am a paid up member of this website
I may post when I wish
What are you doing reading a New Statesman article? Are you a spy?
NOT A spy ---But a U.K. White citizen in U.K.
I am a paid up member of this website
I may post when I wish