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[fpb]

I don't think I have been so furious in years. Gerald Augustinus' Closed Cafeteria, a blog I USED TO read regularly - they can forget about me from now on - has published in full the infamous racist speech that ended the career of loathsome British politician Enoch Powell in 1968. The blog claimed that this piece of filthy black-bashing, aimed entirely at people with dark skins, had anything to do with the current episodes of terrorism in Britain. This is total, complete, unmitigated rubbish, and shows a revolting inability to distinguish between opposition to militant Islam and brute racism with which I do not want to be involved. If anyone else here has ever had the bad idea of reading Closed Cafeteria, I urge you to stop and let him know why.

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[filialucis]

I still occasionally return to the Closed Cafeteria as though to the scene of a bad traffic accident, but my visits are becoming less and less frequent. I rather fear, though, that there's nobody there who would understand if one took the trouble of telling them why that blog has so many distasteful aspects. Seems to me that although Gerald Augustinus himself seems to have done at least a small amount (and I do mean a very small amount) of growing up lately, there's still an awfully heavy overlay of ideology obscuring the doctrine over there. In all sorts of ways.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I'd already warned him that one more piece of irrelevant Republican propaganda would see me go. So he has avoided Republicanism altogether and gone straight to the Ku Klux Klan (which is historically an offshoot of the Democratic Party). Great. That is the way to convince people.

[redcoast.livejournal.com]

Only an offshoot of the old old Democratic Party - and not more affiliated with the Republican Party than NAMBLA is with the Democrats.

Now I'm scared to ask for a link. But I want a link.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I know. I was trying for sarcasm - the sentence should have read something like: "Having told him that the Republican propaganda was out of place, he went and put in some Democrat propaganda. Only it was 1890 Democrat." Well, you can see that it's a hard joke to get exactly right.

The speech has been deleted with all comments. The blog is at http://closedcafeteria.blogspot.com/

[redcoast.livejournal.com]

Oh, I thought you meant that he went all-out with the Republican proganda and ... you're right, it is a difficult joke.

You know, I was this close to being a Catholic ... well, I don't think I would have understood the first thing about it.

[jordan179.livejournal.com]

So he has avoided Republicanism altogether and gone straight to the Ku Klux Klan (which is historically an offshoot of the Democratic Party).

You've just listed one of the reasons why I am proud to be a Republican. ;-)