Are you a traitor?
Adrian Grima's brilliant interview in the Independent has caused quite a stir with Malta's Radical Right. For those of you who are unaware the Radical Right's job is to call anybody who does not agree with their vision of things a traitor. Do you have a different opinion? TRAITOR!!!! YOU'RE BETRAYING YOUR PATRIA!!!! YOU'RE THE ENEMY!!!!
It kind of reminds me of that scene from the Monty Python and the Holy Grail where the people are desperately trying to prove that one woman is a witch. Yes folks. It's that ridiculous. Yet its comic effect can become serious. God forbid these Radical Right would ever have access to power. The witch hunt would be truly on then. And that's not funny. Shunning discussion and resorting to attacking people, using 'Traitor' as the all-time buzzword is not only not funny, it's a threat to democracy. Kind of the same thing the government is up to in the abortion/constitution business.
Witch hunts should be left for the history books. Those that cherish democratic values please take not. Better still, take action.
posted by Peklectrick at 11:30 PM
4 Comments:
Lefties call everyone they disagree with "racist". And like Grima they see it all over the place.
Unlike treachery, racism can be measured. As indeed it has been through sociological studies.
There is no need to measure racism. Practically everything not pro-immigration is "racist."
Kenneth, when anti-immigration sentiment is directed exclusively at people of colour it indeed becomes racist.
If you hear the anti-immigrants brigade speak you'd know that they make grandiose statements about people who stay in Balzan playing with their mobiles.
For these anti-immigrant racists the stereotype is that immigrants are always black. This in turn, brings about a perception whereby black = immigrant and immigrant = black. This automatically leads to racism.
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