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Stop Press ! Farage Apologises For Racist Remarks !
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Chilldoubt This is the point where I think Mr Farage is again 'playing to the gallery' To whit: "You're comparing a group of men to a nice family, whereas Farage was comparing them to criminal gangs." But Farage didn't mention criminal gangs. He just said a group of Romanians. In my opinion, I don't assume a group of Romanians to be criminals before I meet them....
18:45 Mon 19th May 2014
sp1814, you wrote:
> He didn't say that he wouldn't want unemployed, hard drinking, noisy, criminal Romanians...he just said, 'Romanians'.
> That sounds like a blanket coverage of everyone from a particular region.
But he didn't just say "Romanians", he said "a group of Romanian men". That doesn't sound like "blanket coverage".
You also wrote:
> Mr Farage said that he would be concerned if Romanians moved in next door.
> He didn't qualify the statement. This is what I think links his statement to my analogy.
But he did qualify the statement. He said "a group of Romanian men". Ironically, you then - facetiously - twisted your analogy to match what he actually said!
I do wonder, when you wrote the above statements, whether you knew what Farage had actually said. I'm no fan of UKIP - I've already voted (postal) in these elections, and it wasn't for them - but I find some of the arguments against them quite desperate.
> He didn't say that he wouldn't want unemployed, hard drinking, noisy, criminal Romanians...he just said, 'Romanians'.
> That sounds like a blanket coverage of everyone from a particular region.
But he didn't just say "Romanians", he said "a group of Romanian men". That doesn't sound like "blanket coverage".
You also wrote:
> Mr Farage said that he would be concerned if Romanians moved in next door.
> He didn't qualify the statement. This is what I think links his statement to my analogy.
But he did qualify the statement. He said "a group of Romanian men". Ironically, you then - facetiously - twisted your analogy to match what he actually said!
I do wonder, when you wrote the above statements, whether you knew what Farage had actually said. I'm no fan of UKIP - I've already voted (postal) in these elections, and it wasn't for them - but I find some of the arguments against them quite desperate.
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