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Originally Posted by Damien
Why is it a failure of integration that he didn't see 'another white face'? For all we know, the people he saw were English people, with a Brummie accent, who support Villa and England in the football and attend Edgbaston when a test match is on. We don't know.
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Yes, indeed, because Birmingham’s massively integrated like that.
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If he wants a genuine discussion about groups living in entirely different cultures, with little common ground or interaction, then don't start it by talking about people's skin colour. Skin colour is not a measure of integration.
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Well, thank you at least for demonstrating another page of the Left/metro-liberal playbook - claiming “we don’t know” stuff we actually very easily do know (c.f. “How do you know I’m a man?” Posited by obviously male trans-rights heckler at a conference women’s event yesterday). It’s just another facet of the same narrative, designed to ensure you can’t even talk about a subject.
You only have to spend an hour or so walking through these places - and I have, incidentally, spent some time living and walking in the fringes of Brum and Smethwick some years ago - to see who’s embracing Britishness and who’s forming enclaves.
It is not racist to draw attention to observable facts. It is utter foolishness to continue to insist certain topics can’t be discussed, are inherently evil or are unknowable.* The longer the metropolitan commentariat class continues to peddle these absurdities, the angrier people who can see it’s untrue will get. And *that’s* when you have an actual problem, because people - voters - turn to extremists when they think the mainstream parties aren’t listening.
*Lots of young women in Rochdale and elsewhere stand as witnesses to what happens when important issues are shut down just in case they’re seen as racist. Seems like we’ve learned nothing.