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>>bradge+(OP)
I don't follow this kind of thing so forgive my ignorance. Why was "platforming" DHH bad? Honest question.

>>kkaske+H9
He posted a personal blog post a few days ago decrying that London is not white enough. He has a history of very right-leaning positions.

>>alphag+Np
These kind of statements frustrate me. They are kind of manufactured consent statements. I likely don't agree with DHH positions as shared here, but when did we decide platforming very left-leaning positions is good, and platforming very right-leaning ones is bad? I wouldn't even mind if the position was that platforming either is good/bad. The framing here begs the question.

>>thevil+Mx
I read the DHH post in question: https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64. It is pretty standard anti-immigrant. It feels like it is acknowledging the fact that the populations of Western countries are in a demographic crisis, they are sub-replacement in terms of fertility but instead of fixing that he just wants to ban immigrants. It feels like fixing the fertility issue would solve the root issue.

>>bhoust+3B
You don't need to carry water for racists and invent more palatable explanations for what they said. There's nothing in there about not enough British people - only about too many foreigners (whom he can tell by looking at them).

>>fwip+h61
> There's nothing in there about not enough British people - only about too many foreigners

It's the same thing, because the motivation for the immigration policy, per the people implementing it, is to avoid demographic collapse.

Generally too many people can also reasonably be considered a problem, if the intended solution to the social services problem is endless exponential growth. Especially on an island.

> (whom he can tell by looking at them)

There are different ethnicities of "white people" who can be told apart by looking. So "he can tell by looking" does not mean that he is applying a racial standard.

Your argument depends on a notion that English, Italians, Germans etc. "all look the same". But last I checked, people who would say the same about, for example, Chinese, Japanese and Koreans would be called racist for that.

>>zahlma+FP9
> There are different ethnicities of "white people" who can be told apart by looking. So "he can tell by looking" does not mean that he is applying a racial standard.

damn, you are really catching the straws here to defend a racist

It's obvious he meant brown people or anyone that isn't white/european looking.

There is no genetically pure or distinct native British phenotye to set apart other europeans.

Europeans have been mixing themselves for centuries, he obviously knew what he was talking about (non-whites)

>>flykes+YFb
I refer you back to >>45386018 . What you say is "obvious" is your completely unsubstantiated perception.

> There is no genetically pure or distinct native British phenotye to set apart other europeans.

Nevertheless, such ancestry can be reliably determined by genetic testing, and Europeans do recognize it by sight. https://blog.23andme.com/articles/23andme-adds-more-detail-f....