Mob-handed crowds on our streets destroying property and frightening people based on the colour of their skin – has it really come to this?
Have we learnt nothing from the fascist eras of Mussolini, Hitler, Franco and Pinochet? Dictatorships rely on bully-boy tactics finding scapegoats to inflame a politically ignorant working class. Jews, Communists, the disabled, gypsies,homosexuals have been the target of fascists for many decades.
The important thing about scapegoats is their difference. The important thing about liberal democracies is an appreciation of different cultures and a willingness to accommodate their unique practices.
Never again, not in my name and other trite phrases will not restore the trust that immigrant communities had in their chosen homes.
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