What Is 'rubbing Our Noses In Diversity'?

[sp1814]

And why would someone say it with a fellow (black) Leave supporter sitting next to him?

Furthermore, if said person is going to accuse someone of this, should he not do his homework and first make sure he's accusing the correct person?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nigel-farage-provokes-outrage-by-claiming-labour-wanted-to-rub-our-noses-in-diversity-a7034461.html

Farage showing his true colours?

Not racist colours...the colours of stupidity and bad manners?

By the way - ten second in...Dreda Say Mitchell's look of horror is meme-worthy!

[ToraToraTora]

Bang on Nigel, the screen is covered in Tibetan peace porridge, how dare you utter a criticism of the holy mantra of "diversity" - I'm sick to death of this BS, I get spammed at work all the time by this tripe so bravo Nigel for standing up to the bigots. Soon as he says it Mandy and the woman next to him ask 15 questions then won't let him answer. Nobody gave a thought to "diversity" until it started getting rammed down our throats.

[mikey4444]

Farage making a fool of himself yet again, playing the race card.

Perhaps he should get down off that platform and travel down to Wales and try to sort out the mess that his Party has got itself in, after their wins in the Assembly Elections. He might even meet Mr Hamilton, for the first time.

[ToraToraTora]

well unlike Labour at least his party are not making a mess of Wales itself eh mikey!

[sp1814]

TTT

What is wrong with diversity per se?

[ToraToraTora]

Nothing at all. Why do we need to have it rammed down our throats every day?

[jomifl]

It rather depends on whether he was referring to racial or cultural diversity. Perhaps he didn't notice the blackness of his neighbour, who knows how his mind works.

[sp1814]

TTT

I don't really know about what does and doesn't get rammed down your throat, but on the link, it was Nigel Farage who brought it up.

Do you think that his fellow Leave campaigner has a point with what she says at the end?

[-Talbot-]

Is Farage talking about this?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2324112/Lord-Mandelson-Immigrants-We-sent-search-parties-hard-Britons-work.html

[Togo]

/What is wrong with diversity per se?//

Well it isn't working.......in Zimbabwe, or Saudi Arabia, or Japan, or China, or Pakistan, or India, or..........

[ToraToraTora]

No

[sp1814]

-Talbot-

Perhaps, but it's more likely to nee the quote from Andrew Neather.

[sp1814]

Togo

Not getting the Japan reference.

[sp1814]

jomifl

That's what I can't understand. I mean, he has a black woman sitting beside him, who is a member of the Leave campaign and he blurts that out. It's just bizarre.

Perhaps he was tired again?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27466683

[Jackdaw33]

Many years ago, in his column in the Daily Telegraph, Peterborough warned that there would come a time when the Archbishop of Canterbury would have to be a dwarf, hunchbacked, one-legged black lesbian. We all laughed. We are not laughing now.

[agchristie]

^ I must take a closer look at Mr Welby when he's next on TV! :)

[Zacs-Master]

But the AB of C isn't any of those things, never mind a combination of all of them.

[Jackdaw33]

You know what I mean. He was exaggerating the forms of 'diversity'. This is not an attack on His Grace, but 40 years ago the idea of a woman being a priest, let alone a bishop, in the C of E was risible.

[sp1814]

Jackdaw33

I kinda like the fact that we can have female priests. I literally don't understand why having a vagina would preclude you from being able to do the job as well as someone who owns a penis.

By 'owns', I mean 'has'.

[New Judge]

I’m not sure what the fuss is about.

There is no doubt that the Blair/Mandelson administration scoured the globe to welcome migrants to the UK. The unprecedented levels of migration which they oversaw was with one aim – to change irredeemably the demographic makeup of the UK secure in the knowledge that most of the new arrivals would vote Labour. This aim was comfortably achieved. From the report it seems common ground that the phrase “rubbing the Right’s nose in diversity” was uttered, not by Mr Mandelson by one of his lackeys. Perhaps when Mr Farage said “you” he was intending it as the Royal “you”. Further, the fact that the term “rubbing your nose in it” was used seems to indicate that it was well known that “diversity” was something that would not be readily welcomed by all.

What’s wrong with diversity? Nothing too much in itself as long as it not used as a tool to clout people over the head. We're certainly all different and one manifestation of diversity is that some people like and accept fat people, others do not. Similarly some people like and accept foreign people, others do not. It should not be compulsory to do either but unfortunately that’s what the “diversity industry” seems set up to enforce.

[Jackdaw33]

I am not getting into a theological argument. My point is that at one time certain things were impossible but have since become the norm.