tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post3511466293235970583..comments2024-03-26T13:27:26.499+00:00Comments on Zelo Street: Diane Abbott Was RightTim Fentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726447899972084146noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-35215242550018516042017-09-14T14:28:42.806+01:002017-09-14T14:28:42.806+01:00Faux outrage from the Mail yet again. They should ...Faux outrage from the Mail yet again. They should damn well realise hey are part of this problem rather than condemning Ms Abbott for simply explaining in no uncertain terms the abuse she has had to face over the years.<br /><br />Of course, Diane Abbot is an easy target to the Mail and the semi-literates they egg on, for she is black, female and left wing. <br /><br />I wonder how many Mail readers look back with nostalgia at the days when Alf Garnett could call a black person a 'coon' and an Asian a 'wog' on prime time TV? And openly call open season on political correctness because a full episode of 'Love Thy Neighbour' will almost certainly never be aired again?iMatthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13175500314940241302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-73253222324426766722017-09-14T13:50:39.980+01:002017-09-14T13:50:39.980+01:00I'm sure many black kids have heard the n-word...I'm sure many black kids have heard the n-word used against them too! Maybe it shocked and offended white,middle class Tory voters who like to believe that racist abuse doesn't really happen in the nice comfy world they live inIannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-25827590129761286552017-09-14T12:55:18.829+01:002017-09-14T12:55:18.829+01:00It's easy for white citizens to say this, but ...It's easy for white citizens to say this, but I hope the mindless racist abuse actually makes Diane Abbott stronger.<br /><br />When the usual neoNazis resort to this muck it only exposes them for the inhuman scum they are.<br /><br />As for British mainstream media, print and broadcast - what more evidence is required to prove how morally corrupt they are? It's no exaggeration to say their rottenness is exactly parallel to <i>Der Sturmer</i> and the <i>Volkischer Beobachter</i>. They and their cowardly employees bring nothing but shame on this country. They make it possible for social media neoNazis to self-justify their madness.<br /><br />Diane Abbott is a human being with all the abilities and defects of the rest of us. But if I had to chose between her companionship and that of the usual far right media thugs who attack her I'd chose Diane every day of the week and four times on Sundays.<br /><br />But this kind of thing is going to worsen, not improve, as the far right tide of the last thirty odd years begins to ebb. The propagandists will get more and more desperate, tell more and more lies, make more and more attacks on our easy-target citizens. All of this while they virtually ignore mass murdering, invasions and looting by the West on the other side of the world. To say nothing of NATO encirclement threats to the peace of Europe.<br /><br />The attacks on Diane Abbott are one small symptom of the kind of desperately sick, broken society we have produced. I hope she at least can show we have some good people left. But it's going to be one long hard struggle. The evil is now that deep rooted.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com