Immigration attitudes are warmer but mixed and polarised. Many people more pragmatic (jobs need doing) or more empathetic (we should Europeans certainty) or less fearful (result felt powerful, may lead to control) or a combination. Still sceptical of govts but more pro-migrant.
I find the use of medical language such as “intervention” quite disturbing. Why do anti-progressive narratives around mass migration (which to you is racism, rather than prejudice / dislike due to race) need “intervention”? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry_in_the_Soviet_Union …
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I think we do & must intervene against forms of extremism that legitimise and incite violence. For example, Isis. Part of that is policing, part of it is an extreme ideology of al-Maharajoun. Much the same can also be said of Eltham's racist & murderous Acort twins in 1993.
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Since you told me you wish to oppose racism, I'd be puzzled if you wouldnt acknowledge that the gang who committed the Lawrence murder were motivated by racism. So can we agree gvt should keep citizens safe from both Islamist & white far right murderers with ideological motives?
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To avoid the charge of "disingenuous doublespeak" you may need to explain how * you say you oppose to racism & want less of it * yet you challenge evidence of declining racism as fake (social desirability) & see claiming racism is really higher as a positive for your project!
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I think multiculturalism leads to increased racism. I’d agree with Powell’s analysis that mass immigration will eventually lead to US style race relations, which would be catastrophic socially and for democracy more generally.
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