Trapper John wrote:I saw the signs for myself - and you know damn well they existed.
As did the racist East London dockers march...
As did the Cable Street punch-ups against Jews in the 30s...
As did the East London riots against immigrants in the 1950s...
As did similar riots earlier in that century in many cities...
And much more...
The idea that racism is an invention by the middle class is absolutely laughable.
I tell you what is laughable about this is that it is the polar opposite of what the white liberal classes want people to believe these days.
This fucking myth they spew out when it suits or when they think it might be needed, this "Great tradition of British Tolerance" well the above doesn't exactly exude tolerance does it?
It's bollocks, the British have no more tolerance to those they percieve as outsiders than anyone else on fucking Earth, thing is most of those people don't have their own governments dumping them in their laps wholesale. We aren't tolerant, we just don't have a choice.
You're right, this "Great tradition of British Tolerance" didn't exist in the class I was raised in. We didn't tolerate the cunts from the slightly posher council estate up the road, let alone foreigners. Always exceptions though - no matter how alien they were, if their daughters were tasty that was okay with us.
Oddly perhaps, I didn't experience any racism, incoming or outgoing, when I lived in the Jewish East End - perhaps because they looked much like anyone else - or perhaps because the Cable Street battles had sorted it earlier.
But back to your point, yes it's bollocks. "Tolerance" in this context is mostly a middle-class concept - still worth promoting though.
