Could the British attitude change?

[anotheoldgit]

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Things don't look too good in Egypt, especially when it could affect that all important international shipping route, The Suez Canal.

Hearing that the Unions in this country are soon to organise mass demonstrations against the Government's cuts made me wonder, France are not slow in taking to the streets, we have recently see the riots in Tunisia, and now the riots in Egypt.

Is it the ethnic identity of the peoples of these countries, that make them react so violently, and if so taking into account the alteration in our ethnicity due to the huge influx of foreign nations to this country, could the once easy laid back and tolerant attitude of the British people change?

[AB Editor]

AOG, could you please, as a request from the Editor of this website, attempt to debate with other rather than slinging mud. You brought in the pointless point of ethnicity, not others.

[McMouse]

Yes Ankou...........The people of some countries are more disposed to violent demonstrations than others. You don't hear of riots in Scandinavian countries, Japan, Mongolia, Canada etc. but if the ethnicity of such countries was skewed by an influx of immigrants from say France then you might expect the barricades to go up at the drop of a garlic clove.

[McMouse]

<<pointless point>> Rather blunt Ed.

[NazNomad]

"You people are so hung up about colour, perhaps it would be best not to mention any news or events that are associated in countries where the people are black. "

Are Egyptians black then? Since when?

[Zeuhl]

Perhaps aog is too shy to use the term he is probably most familiar with: w-o-g-s

[Zeuhl]

Gunboats up the Mersey

Half of the Liverpool police ‘went wrong’ during the August Bank Holiday week-end of 1919. The immediate result was the worst outbreak of mob violence, looting and burning which even Liverpool, with its long history of similar troubles, had ever experienced. Before the Liverpool police strike was over, a battleship and two destroyers had raced at full steam from Scapa Flow to train their searchlights on both banks of the Mersey (for the riots in Birkenhead as a result of the strike in that force were equally serious).

Scarcely a shop window remained unbroken in Scotland Road and London Road, the two major thoroughfares bordering the Liverpool dock area. More than three hundred prisoners were sentenced for their part in the week-end debauchery, and one man lay dead in the mortuary, shot by one of the hundreds of soldiers drafted into the city to protect property and prevent the trouble from extending to the whole of Liverpool.

The black scousers of 1919!
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[ummmm]

AOG...because I was answering snafu...

I think what AOG means is anyone not white is black...

[Zeuhl]

<<some intelligent answers?>>

this is oldgit code for:

answers that agree with me and reinforce my ludicrous prejudices and ill-considered ideas
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[jno]

Tunisians and Egyptians are predominantly black? How can you call for reasoned debate when you talk such piffle? They are nothing of the sort.

[anotheoldgit]

First thank you McMouse for taking issue with the ED's comments.

AB Editor

It makes one wonder if it is really worthwhile carrying on being a member of AnswerBank when the Editor himself, (who should be both neutral, and seen not to take sides), wrongfully accuses one of being a racist.

If you consider that I have been racial in anyway then you have the power to either remove the offensive material or ban me completely.

Given your position I would have assumed that you possess a certain amount of intelligence, but when I read your criticisms I begin to wonder.

/// How on earth have you linked this to race AOG? You could talk about culture quite happily on this subject and without having to stretch so far. ///

I am not an expert in anthropology, but even with a basic knowledge one would know that all races of the Earth do not possess the same characteristics, just as a poodle isn't so aggressive as a pit-bull terrier, just as the differences in attitudes of Man the hunter,& Woman the gatherer, or to witness the well know Latin fieriness.

///Could The British Attitude Change?///
It should, we could do with a bit more "taking to the streets". The established order of the ruling classes needs a little more shaking up.

This just about sums it up, about where you are coming from, condoning the 'taking to the streets' to upset the ruling classes, all typical 'Far Left' agenda.

So please don't falsely accuse me, when you yourself hides a much more obvious agenda.

/// A question for you AOG, what are you worried about? ///

The fact that in your position as The Editor of AnswerBank, you are in possession of certain personal details of members, that is what worries me.

[NazNomad]

"It makes one wonder if it is really worthwhile carrying on being a member of AnswerBank when the Editor himself, (who should be both neutral, and seen not to take sides), wrongfully accuses one of being a racist. "

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