Originally Posted by
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Okay...one final attempt.
1. I used the word ‘Untermensch’ to draw a comparison between the contempt shown within 1930’s Germany for certain minority groups (many of them migrants) and the similar contempt for similar groups shown in the UK today by certain Right wingers. Please explain how that is ‘disturbed’.
2. You said, in post 53, ‘desperate implies women/children/infirm’. It really, really doesn’t and no amount of arguing will make anyone change their minds about that. It’s nonsense. You cannot challenge what someone suggests by falsely changing the meaning of a word.
3. Farage’s ‘Breaking Point’ anti-migrant poster from 2016 was very reminiscent of propaganda from the 1930’s. Even fellow ‘Leavers’ Johnson and Gove distanced themselves from it, the latter commenting...‘it made me shudder’, while others described it as the ‘politics of the gutter’ and Justin Welby cited it as an example of Farage ‘giving legitimisation to racism’. It is, imo, an example of Farage identifying refugees as some sort of ‘Untermensch’. Please look it up and explain how it isn’t.
4. Despite what you appear to want to believe, neither I (nor Gary Lineker) have, at any time, advocated a policy of open borders. It suits your agenda to portray all those who are not as callous as yourself as supporting such a stance but, as with so much of what you suggest, it isn’t true. It has no basis in fact...and simply being willing to show compassion towards those who are so desperate to escape to the comparative safety of the U.K. is a very different thing.
Now...if you’re going to respond please respond rationally. I don’t know about being a ‘clever bloke’...no more or less than most on here I’d suggest...but I am bright enough to know that you don’t win debates by making nonsensical statements and deliberately misinterpreting others.