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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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On a more general topic

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Over the past year or so I've become aware of a real *thing* going on in some Catholic circles in the USA (and to some extent in other parts of North America): sometimes I call it anti-Europe-ness but to give them the benefit of the doubt I'd rather term it blind ignorance instead.

Any which way you term it, at a certain point I just decided not to visit those websites anymore; the hassle takes me away from what's really important in my life. If they want to sit around unduly slagging off Europe to the detriment of their own charity, that's up to them. At some juncture it'll just be them slagging us off to...more of themselves, which will pretty much only have an adverse effect on...them. There's only so much I can do.

Re: On a more general topic

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I have to write an essay on this, but in general I would say that the American right feels very concerned by the rise of Europe as a world power pursuing its own policy - which is very different from what American conservatives find manly, and is best described as passive-aggressive. These remarks may sound rather Delphic, but I hope to become clearer in the future.