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Oh, the agony of being PeeCee and caught in the middle of this one:-

Teachers drop the Holocaust to avoid offending Muslims

Schools are dropping the Holocaust from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim pupils, a Governmentbacked study has revealed.

It found some teachers are reluctant to cover the atrocity for fear of upsetting students whose beliefs include Holocaust denial.

There is also resistance to tackling the 11th century Crusades - where Christians fought Muslim armies for control of Jerusalem - because lessons often contradict what is taught in local mosques.

The findings have prompted claims that some schools are using history ‘as a vehicle for promoting political correctness’.

The study, funded by the Department for Education and Skills, looked into ‘emotive and controversial’ history teaching in primary and secondary schools.

It found some teachers are dropping courses covering the Holocaust at the earliest opportunity over fears Muslim pupils might express anti-Semitic and anti-Israel reactions in class.

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The evolution of language often disaccomodates those who love and value their culture.  But usage changes continually, and sometimes whole rafts of linguistic fashion disappear in a matter of a few years - one thinks of the disappearance of received English, and the class attitudes associated with it, from the BBC’s airwaves in the 1960s.

But it’s another matter when language is not really evolving at all but has been expropriated for politically disreputable ends.  The disaccomodation is severe.  It occasions real anger.  What right, for example, had politically-organised sodomists to take possession of that old and useful three-letter English word beginning with “g”, and employ it against the unnappeasable conviction that homosexuality is at best tragic?  What right has anyone to coerce the majority to think in their way, and only in their way?

Still, there are moments even here when “the best-laid schemes o’ mice an ‘men gang aft agley”, and anger among the abused majority can give way to something approaching mirth.  And never is that more true than when the “ganging agley” is done by the hand of innocent, apolitical children.

The young don’t know anything about the culture wars of my generation.  They don’t know how Marxist progressives systematically prostituted language to redefine and limit debate on their own terms.  They don’t know that stigmatising the “stigmatisers” was an end in itself for these vile people.  They don’t know that they are supposed to be the harbingers of a new dawn when men and women will bestride the Earth freed from all too, too native humanity.  As if.

They don’t know any of that.  So when they discover that there are men out there who like other men in what is obviously the wrong way, they express their distaste in the time-honoured fashion.  They prostitute language to redefine and limit debate on their own terms.  It’s just not the language our social engineers would want to see prostituted.  You gotta laugh!

Police send four police officers to tackle boy, 11, who called schoolmate ‘gay’

When two policemen turned up unannounced at Alan Rawlinson’s home asking to speak to his young son, the company director feared something serious had happened.

So he was astounded when the officers detailed 11-year-old George’s apparent crime - calling one of his schoolfriends ‘gay’.

They said primary school pupil, George, was being investigated for a ‘very serious’ homophobic crime after using the comment in an e-mail to a 10-year-old classmate.

Cheshire police launched the investigation last month after a complaint from the parents of the 10-year-old younger boy who received George’s e-mail.

They said their son had been called a ‘gay boy’ and were concerned that there was more to the comment than playground banter and that their child was being bullied.

As a consequence, two officers were sent to the boys’ school, Farnworth Primary, in Widnes, Cheshire, to speak to the headteacher who directed them to the Rawlinsons’ home in nearby St Helens, Merseyside.

George told his parents that the comment was in no way meant to be homophobic and that he had simply been using the word gay instead of ‘stupid’.

Mr Rawlinson, 41, who runs his own business, and whose wife, Gaynor, also 41, is a magistrate, said his son was terrified when the police arrived at their home.

He feared he was going to be arrested and locked up in a cell because of it, he added.  “I feel very aggrieved about this,” Mr Rawlinson, who has lodged a formal complaint against the police, said.

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The tourist office in Bath knows how to tell the punters what they want to hear:-

The golden city of Bath has been welcoming visitors for over 2,000 years.  Designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, Bath presents some of the finest architectural sights in Europe, such as the Roman Baths and Pump Room, the Royal Crescent, Pulteney Bridge and the Circus.  The surrounding seven hills, the river Avon running through the heart of the city, and the towers of Bath Abbey combine to create a wonderful first impression.

Unfortunately, there is a second impression.  Bath also has an underclass (in Snow Hill), and it has all the precious gifts of diversity.  On checking the BBC’s report of the murder of father-of-two Paul Kelly, 32, on New Year’s Day I happened across Bathradar, a blog giving “sexed up local news for Bath”.  The Longacre Tavern, where Mr Kelly was repeatedly stabbed to death, has been accorded two posts.

One of these publishes the poem also reproduced in this BBC link.  It has been fly-posted around the city and it gives a name for the young black killer of Mr Kelly:-

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From the Independent today:-

Second generation ethnic minorities make ‘remarkable progress’ in work

Ethnic minorities have gained greater equality in the job market over the past 30 years, according to new research. Second generation minorities, especially men of black Caribbean, Indian and Pakistani heritage, are succeeding in ways their parents could only dream of, a study by Dr Yaojun Li, from Birmingham University, and Professor Anthony Heath, from Oxford University, found.

They are much more likely to gain access to professional and managerial jobs, according to the research, presented to the Royal Geographical Society’s annual conference yesterday.

However, the fortunes of men of black African origins are still very polarised. Although now more likely to be in professional and managerial jobs than white British men, with a large proportion - about 40 per cent - holding these positions, they were also more likely to be unemployed with one in five being out of work.

Indian men are now just as likely as their white British counterparts to hold prestigious positions. But black Caribbean, Pakistani and Bangladeshi men were still less likely to achieve high status jobs, and were more likely to be unemployed and be in unskilled jobs than white British men.

“Even though several ethnic minority groups are still disadvantaged, there has been remarkable progress,” Dr Li said. He said that through the 1980s and early 1990s, black Caribbean, black African, Pakistani and Bangladeshi men were consistently more likely to be unemployed. However, since the mid-1990s the differences had been significantly reduced.

And now, please cast your eye over this, from BBC News:-

Jail office moves for ‘diversity’

Prison service leaders are being criticised amid claims they are relocating an office from Corby because the town is too white.

One of the factors behind the centre moving from Corby to Leicester, with the loss of 90 jobs, is because the city boasts a “diverse workforce”.

... Crown House has handled prison contracts for catering, transport and prisoner escorts for more than 30 years.

Staff do not yet know when their jobs will end.

Almost 94% of the population in Corby are white British, compared with just under 60% in Leicester.

A Prison Service Spokesman said: “The potential sale of the property has given Her Majesty’s Prison Service the opportunity to look at what provides the best option for the Prison Service and therefore the taxpayer in the medium to longer term.

“The key factors that influenced our decision to relocate to Leicester were the closer proximity to a greater number of prison establishments, better transport links, the ability to recruit professional staff and the ability to attract a more diverse workforce.”

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Not with much, in my case.  I passed up the opportunity to read and inwardly digest all the usual fayre and the usual Blair.  But I did stop to read news of the latest victim of the Boer genocide: not an Afrikaner farmer this time but the well-known historian and hotelier David Rattray.

His killing is also reported by the Telegraph.  But it is the thread to that first link - the Mail on Sunday article - that caught my attention.  As a sample of opinion it is small.  But it contains the unmistakable melancholy of one who has had all his foolish illusions chased out of the door and the old, hard lessons hammered home at the highest of costs - loss of sovereignty, loss of homeland, loss of life:-

Unfortunately this is our way of life in South Africa now - the politicians are not concerned that over 2000 farmers have been murdered, nor does 20 to 30,000 murders a year phase them at all - Mbeki and our Police Commissioner Selebi have stated publicly that the situation is ‘nothing to fuss about’ and our Minister of Safety and Security has publicly stated that rather than whinge we should ‘leave the country’.

- R.Mcgregor, JHB, South Africa

Sadly his murder is one of many taking place here as violent crime in South Africa spirals out of control. We all live in fear of such attacks and yet President Mbeki stated last week that “crime is not out of control”.

- Jean Collen, Johannesburg, South Africa

This poor man is but one of hundreds who have been murdered in recent years in SA. It’s strange how it rarely comes to the attention if the British press.

- Malcolm, Herne Hill London

We lived in South Africa for nearly 30 years and love the country but returned to the UK when our eldest son narrowly escaped being murdered for his motor car. Having been back in the UK now for nearly 10 years we feel our lives are just as much at risk here. Sad to say the whole world has become a very violent place.

- Maeve Hopkins, Wales

That’s South Africa for you. It only gets worse, will it ever get better? No not with the government we have there. A shame though, hence alot of South Africans come to the UK for safety.

- Anite, Herts - Ex South African

Having experience over many years of life in south africa, I find it so saddening that those who help and respect black Africans are so often caught up in the terrible climate of killings - usually for money and goods, but sometimes just for revenge.

- Barbara, London, UK

This is just another senseless murder to add to our appalling crime statistics, and our government tells us that crime isn’t out of control!

- Eddie Keys, Johannesburg, South Africa

One is past being surprised that “men” invade white homes in rainbow-land and take their murderous, their rapine revenge ... along with whatever useless gewgaws they can steal.  One is past being surprised because far outside SA, despite the liberal Establishment’s best obfuscatory efforts, we too have had to grow accustomed to black violence.  The constant drip-feed of murder reports has taught us to be shrewd judges of the mental weakness and fatal aggressivity that mark the black gang killer, the wildly violent burglar, the knife-frenzied mugger.  Even when racial details of the killers are left mysteriously vague we are very rarely wrong.

In broader terms, the post-Empire generations of Englishmen have been forced to re-learn what their fathers knew well.  It is the same lesson that the Boers of Apartheid knew well, and that the men of the old Confederacy knew well.  The wilful, utopian forgetting of it has cost countless white lives.  But these are our dead, and they are too precious, it seems to me, to be remembered on only one day a year.

Hardly unexpectedly, Bruno Gollnisch, deputy leader of the FN and leader of the new nationalist grouping in the European Parliament, has been found guilty of “disputing a crime against humanity”.  His judge in the Lyon court handed him a suspended jail sentence of 3 months and a fine of 55,000 euros for the offended “plaintiffs”, plus the cost for the judgment to be published in those newspapers that originally printed his remarks.

His historical disputatiousness occurred in Lyon over two years ago.  He had said:-

“Historians have the right to discuss the number of deaths and the way that they died.

What, of course, he should have said was:-

“Only the state has the right to stipulate the number of deaths and the way that they died.

He also said:-

Fifty years after the facts we can discuss the real number of deaths

But what he should have said was:-

Fifty years ... five hundred years ... five thousand years after the facts we shall feel our shame for the state-prescribed number of deaths.

He also said that the:-

existence of the gas chambers is for historians to discuss.

But what he should have said was that the:-

existence of the gas chambers is for the state to drill into us everyday, ceaselessly, until we are filled with such a sense of sin we can think of nothing but eternal recompense to our vibrant minorities, and especially towards our Jews.

For these oversights Gollnisch has been duly punished.  So have we.

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MR regulars will by now recognise the initials of commenter PF.  He, like us all, has followed his own unique path here, involving in his case a brush with the theatre of the absurd as he explains in this, his first post ...

GW

Anti-racism has a new star and spokesperson in the person of Antony Medley, a man who embodies in himself some of the noblest aspects of that so noble movement.

Antony’s entire world is anti-racism, a fact he first made clear to us all in his landmark video, Racism is Ignorance.  Here, Antony layed out his philosophical justification for an aggressive, even potentially violent, new kind of anti-racism: “I’m not racist, but I am racist against racists.”

Eventually, his video provoked such a strong response from both fans and detractors alike, he was positively compelled to produce another one.  Well, obviously he had to placate his expanding fanbase somehow and “correct” those sinners on the right.  In large part, his second video repeated his earlier work.  But at least it bore a more concise title: Racism Ignorance.

Unlike many anti-racists Antony didn’t simply block commentors who disagreed with him.  True to his messianic spirit he actually engaged them in open debate on his Video Comments sections.  This duly attracted determined proponents from both sides of the ideological fence, producing threads of 100+ entries - sufficient for the clearest understanding of the issues under discussion for anybody who wanted it.

Antony probably did not want it.

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I came across this story in the Mail on Sunday today.  It is very sad - the pain of a mother whose nineteen year old son disappeared without trace two years ago while on a journey in Cambodia. 

It’s a story that we hear rather too often now.  Not enough attention - in fact, probably no attention - is paid to the causes, and to the potential great peril in which we blithely place our most treasured possessions, our children.

I blogged about it in February of last year, following the killing of a young British girl on the beach at Koh Samui in Thailand.  In the Mail article today, the mother of the missing boy has been made to understand in the cruellest way:-

Now, when I hear mothers blithely planning their teenage children’s gap years, my stomach churns. As they muse over the exciting challenges and mind-expanding experiences offered abroad, I want to scream: ‘No, no, no.’ Are they totally blind to the potential dangers?

... as I’ve discovered, travelling around Europe is utterly different to backpacking around one of the most deprived areas of the world, where drugs are rife, foreigners are exploited for their money and life is cheap. If parents could see the truth - as I’ve been forced to - they’d think again.

There was never a time when independent travel to Asia or Africa was safe.  But in the age of Empire, travelling Britons enjoyed a certain privilege and authority.  No doubt, they fully exploited their position, and made no bones about demanding deference from the natives.  Sahib might have seemed insufferably boorish to us from a modern perspective.  But his status offered a certain protection that today’s starry-eyed One-World egalitarianism absolutely does not.

And then there is impressionableness.  The Mail story reveals that the missing nineteen year old was not on a trip during his gap year.  But it was his gap year that caused him to take off again.

Though Eddie came back safely from his gap year, he found it impossible to settle. Three weeks after starting university, he secretly withdrew £3,000 from his bank account and booked a flight to Bangkok.

So his gap year had not equipped him to return to the rigours of full-time study, as advertised on the can.  Here’s why, probably.  The fearless stupidity of youth.

I don’t really know what one should do about all this - save to make sure that these big kids understand something that might protect them from real life.  One can’t ask the educational authorities to be responsible in what heady expectations they engineer - they are all One-World fantasists anyway.  Nor can one turn to the travel industry for help - too self-interested.  That leaves government, and they are all liberals too, and the FO has some very pressing reasons for keeping the local pols sweet.  No wonder there are those among our children who wind up alone in some not-so-picturesque Third World shithole, learning when it’s all too late that naivety and hedonism are not universal values.