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Who's the Bigot, Mr. Brown?

By Patrick J. Buchanan

"Gordon Brown may have torpedoed his last chance to be prime minister in his own right when, in the privacy of his limo, he called 66-year-old Gillian Duffy that "bigoted woman."


What had widow Duffy done to deserve the slur?

After taking the Labor Party leader to task for several minutes, Mrs.
Duffy raised the immigration issue—"These Eastern Europeans, where are
they all flocking from?"

Brown responded that a million East Europeans had entered Britain, but
a million Britons had emigrated to the continent.

The exchange over, Duffy was pleased with having been televised with
the prime minister and said she would vote for Brown. Until, that is,
she was told that Brown, overheard on a microphone he was wearing but
forgot about, called her that "bigoted woman."

The shock on Mrs. Duffy's face showed genuine pain.

That the episode was disastrous for Brown even he agrees. But it
raises a larger question. Who is the real bigot here?

Assume Duffy is upset that millions of East European strangers and
Third World peoples have moved into her country and neighborhood, and
she wishes she had back the Britain she grew up in.

Is that bigotry? And, if so, why?

In his last year as prime minister, Winston Churchill, concerned that
an influx from the Caribbean would turn Britain into what he called a
"magpie society," identified immigration as "the most important
subject facing this country" and, according to Harold Macmillan,
wanted the Tories to adopt a policy and slogan of "Keep Britain
White!"

If this makes Churchill and Mrs. Duffy bigots, are the Japanese all
bigots because they refuse to allow immigration? Countries all over
the world restrict or forbid the kind of mass immigration we and
Europe have embraced.

Does the desire of a people to preserve its unique and separate ethnic
identity and cultural character, de facto, constitute bigotry?

Are the Israelis bigots because Bibi Netanyahu demands that in any
peace agreement with Palestinians it be stipulated that Israel shall
forever remain a Jewish nation? Are the Muslim Uighurs and Tibetans
bigots because they want to end the migration of Han Chinese into
their homelands, secede from China and set up ethnonational states of
their own: East Turkestan and Tibet?

If "Africa for the Africans" was a wonderful slogan in the 1950s, why
is "Britain for the Britons" a bigoted idea today?

During the 1976 campaign, Jimmy Carter said in Philadelphia he
respected the "ethnic purity" of the neighborhoods and would not use
federal power to alter their character.

Carter was saying that organic communities created by people of a
separate ethnic heritage and cultural character—the Little Italys,
Polish neighborhoods, Chinatowns—should be respected and left alone.

At the beginning of Black History Month 2009, Attorney General Eric
Holder, in his "Nation of Cowards" address, said: "(O)utside the
workplace, the situation is even more bleak in that there is almost no
significant interaction between (black and white). On Saturdays and
Sundays, America ... does not, in some ways, differ significantly from
the country that existed some 50 years ago."

America, Holder went on, "is more prosperous, more positively race
conscious and yet is voluntarily socially segregated."

Did not Holder have a point?

Washington, D.C., where John McCain got 6.5 percent of the vote, is
the most liberal precinct in the Electoral College. No Republican
presidential candidate has ever gotten 20 percent of the vote.

Yet D.C. remains largely self-segregated. Hardly any white children
can be found in D.C. public schools. As one conservative wrote
sardonically, when it comes to the spouses they choose, the schools
their kids attend, the neighborhoods they live in and the churches
they go to, the white liberal elite pretty much replicates the social
patterns of the Ku Klux Klan.

Of Brown's insult of Mrs. Duffy, Alex Salmond, leader of the Scottish
National Party, said we got a "window into the character of the prime
minister."

More precisely, we got a window into the mindset of Brown. Just as we
got a window into the mindset of Barack Obama when he said, in that
closed meeting in San Francisco, about working-class whites in
Pennsylvania, whom the world has supposedly passed by:

"So it's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns
or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-
immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their
frustrations."

Brown's statement, and Obama's, reflect a prejudice, a prejudgment
against those who resist and reject the multiethnic, multicultural
world they embrace as progressive and seek to bring about.

Of Mrs. Duffy it may be said: You may not like what she thinks, but
she says what she thinks.

As for those who think her a bigot, most lack the courage of their
convictions. Brown revealed that by running away from and apologizing
for saying what he thinks. "


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On May 4, 10:48*pm, Bret L wrote:
Who's the Bigot, Mr. Brown?


Why, you and Sailer are the bigots, Bratzi.

I'm surprised you had to ask.
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