tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post7206912203128643306..comments2024-03-05T10:52:24.691+00:00Comments on Mark Wadsworth: Fun Online Polls: The global financial crisis & Muslim migrantsMark Wadsworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-4363572352833162272015-09-02T19:06:29.527+01:002015-09-02T19:06:29.527+01:00"Wot's wong with wacism?"
I never s..."Wot's wong with wacism?"<br /><br />I never said anything was wrong with it. I said that being anti-Muslim is not racism.<br /><br />"Certainly the Sunni versus Shia carry on has been going on for 1,500 years, so the West is not to blame for that. "<br /><br />However, very few of those years have been years of actual war, probably much fewer than Catholic v non-Catholic.<br /><br />"Plus other countries try to interfere in the West."<br /><br />That doesn't really excuse the almost continual interference up to and including direct military invasion that the countries of the Middle East have suffered since the end of the First World War.Bayardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15211150959757982948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-43285065774259683562015-09-02T08:31:20.359+01:002015-09-02T08:31:20.359+01:00Bayard,
Wot's wong with wacism? Wacism is def...Bayard,<br /><br />Wot's wong with wacism? Wacism is defined in the Oxford Dictionary as (amongst other things) the belief that some races are superior to others. Now psychologists have confirmed that some waycis do in fact have higher IQs than others. Ergo there's nothing wong with wacism. (Guardianists will be crying their eyes out)<br /><br />Re the damage done to Muslim countries by the West, that's very hard to quantify. Certainly the Sunni versus Shia carry on has been going on for 1,500 years, so the West is not to blame for that. Plus the Muslim extremist versus moderate arguments would be taking place anyway. Plus other countries try to interfere in the West. For example Russia backed Western communist parties before the collapse of communism. And Saudis push their extremist Wahabi ideology in Mosques base in the West. It's complicated.Ralph Musgravehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09443857766263185665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-13551549044246442062015-09-01T20:05:38.279+01:002015-09-01T20:05:38.279+01:00MW,
I think everyone should watch this,
http://...MW,<br /><br />I think everyone should watch this,<br /><br /><br />http://putlocker.is/watch-south-park-tvshow-season-8-episode-7-online-free-putlocker.html<br /><br />and this<br /><br />http://putlocker.is/watch-south-park-tvshow-season-13-episode-14-online-free-putlocker.html<br /><br />enjoy.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />benjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11544297406005346095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-77762078986554635572015-09-01T18:49:17.869+01:002015-09-01T18:49:17.869+01:00JH, the Aussies certainly don't want them.
J...JH, the Aussies certainly don't want them. <br /><br />JT, RM, that's wacist. <br /><br />BJ, hang on here.<br /><br />According to Niaill Ferguson (no left winger he), this sort of poverty was entrenched in most central and south American countries from the very start because a few families in each country declared themselves landowners and everybody else was effectively a slave. At least the USA and Canada started off with a relatively egalitarian land distribution system, and that is sort of embedded in their psyche. As land ownership becomes more concentrated, poverty is becoming more widespread there as well, of course.<br /><br />And of the few south Americans I've met, they seem like perfectly normal people to me, little different to other Europeans. I'm not aware that there are whole areas in Europe with high concentrations of south Americans in their "own communities" who refuse to adapt to our way of life or (re)adopt normal European customs, values and lifestyles etc.<br /><br />And Mexico etc violence is down to Americans buying their drugs while declaring them illegal and selling them weapons at the same time. The stereotype Mexican in the USA is not a welfare claimant or jihadist, he or she just does a low paid job and watches Spanish language telly at home and causes little further bother. They are like Eastern Europeans are to Western Europeans. Mark Wadsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-45003191720843476472015-09-01T15:46:09.123+01:002015-09-01T15:46:09.123+01:00@ JT & RM
Only that wasn't always the cas...@ JT & RM<br /><br />Only that wasn't always the case was it. Look back in history and you could argue the reverse was true.<br /><br />Suggest you read The Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam the 10th century poet, mathematician and philosopher.<br /><br />I think a more interesting comparison would be poor muslims in North Africa and poor christians in South America.<br /><br />Both of which live in highly unstable, violent and poverty stricken circumstances.<br /><br />Indeed, when it comes to crime and violence, South America has everywhere else licked.<br /><br />I think you'll find the Americans have been bitching about immigration from South America even longer and more vocally than our own recent problems in Europe.<br /><br />Last I heard they were building a billion dollar fence or something. benjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11544297406005346095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-7099035182632894522015-09-01T12:23:18.816+01:002015-09-01T12:23:18.816+01:00John Tee,
Your remarks are politically incorrect,...John Tee,<br /><br />Your remarks are politically incorrect, which is good evidence that your remarks are true.Ralph Musgravehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09443857766263185665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-36511339893439789972015-08-31T21:41:34.690+01:002015-08-31T21:41:34.690+01:00Some nice desert in north-western Australia they c...Some nice desert in north-western Australia they can have.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-90763442576185136492015-08-31T18:48:57.757+01:002015-08-31T18:48:57.757+01:00Pw, it goes in eighteen year cycles, end of.Pw, it goes in eighteen year cycles, end of.Mark Wadsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-3498141988405569842015-08-31T18:22:11.209+01:002015-08-31T18:22:11.209+01:00Any reason you are giving the land speculation mis...Any reason you are giving the land speculation misery another 10 years? You wrote "perhaps until 2025-26"... No matter how much I wish it ends tomorrow, my wish is not a good predictor, but your spreadsheet may be.Piotr Wasikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05460291916106181718noreply@blogger.com