
Originally Posted by
brocktonblockbust
Beanz I'm conflicted on it
A great honest answer. I agree as you will see in my first reply to Fenster. That is the crux of nearly all my disagreements with posters here. The insistence on maintaining the illusion that answers are so simplistic. This polarity, extreme left and and right, is stupid and seems to be in part imported from American culture. I can see why in such a diverse country as yours an illusion like this would help people feel more safe and certain.
Don't get me wrong it has always been here in the UK but its crazy now. Us and them. The have and have nots. That is why religious extremists get away unchallenged because people focus on groups and lose sight of individuals.
People don't want to imagine they might have anything in common with someone who on the surface seems so different and so they make people out to be cardboard cutouts, groups, ciphers.
That is what bigoted Muslims do when they treat non muslims as infidels and what bigoted British do when they refuse to even recognise British born Muslims who join the army and are willing to die for this country.
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