Nigel Farage and Racism

Given the comments by UKIP's leader, Nigel Farage, I think it's the perfect time to ask this question. He proposed to abolish most legislation regarding discrimination and prejudice, as enforced by the law. These are laws that enforce quotas on employers which go against a man's freedom to associate with whom he pleases.

Racism has been a dirty word since it's inception. A propaganda word formed to guilt the West into accepting multiculturalism and mass immigration. A word used to propel neo-liberalism without dissent. Any dissent would incur the wrath of the Political Correct-brigade and have you carted off to the gulag. These people who go along with the ideas of equality, immigration and anti-racism have a disdain for authority and traditions. Well, the true believers are Marxist/Trotskyite. The rest of the crowd are simply useful idiots who seem to have had this propaganda bashed into their skulls for so long that it's affecting their better judgement.

This all stems to the dissolution of the family. It's under attack, and racism is partly to blame. If racism was so bad, why do we treat our family members and friends differently to strangers we've never met before? If we were building a business, would we not wish to see our friends and family succeed with us rather than a stranger we've never met?

This isn't xenophobia. Some employers may simply wish for the best of the best, like Chelsea FC or Manchester City, but others should be able to choose without being attacked with a pejorative like "racist".

So, given this, is Nigel Farage a bad man for wanting to deregulate business and giving employers more power over their private businesses and who they can employ and associate with, or is he just a bad man?

Nigel Farage is under fire for saying that these laws aren't needed. As if Racsim is a thing of the past.

Farage is playing s blinder, he does this all the time. He says something borderline racist or far right and then back tracks to a more moderate position. People then only remember the bits they want to here/agree with and support him. I hate the guy but he's a hell of an operator.

I actually don't like his back-peddling; it makes him seem like a weak leader and clearly just a corruptible and fallible as the rest of the establishment he tries to draw a distinction from.

Nigel Farage is under fire for saying that these laws aren't needed. As if Racsim is a thing of the past. The laws don't affect businesses to the extent that Mr. Farage claims, the employer always has the final say. I don't know whether he's racist or not, but I'm with Shadiq Khan on this one, Nigel's claims are ludicrous.

Anyone who has justly acquired property should be free to discrimination against whomever he wishes.

It is not the business of state to force people how to think.
Business who do discriminate due to race will suffer due to bad reputation as well lose consumers.

People in their personal inactions discriminate all the time.
Black males are more likely to marry black women even though there are signifantly more white women.

Should we force people into interracial marriages in the name of diversity?
What about the fact that so many people only date certain genders?



Racism is nasty but it does not warrant agression.
They have horrible opinions and thoughts but they do not deserve to be imprisoned or physically hurt because of it.

There can be no such things as thoughtcrimes in a free society.

How dare they discriminate on this basis!

They're probably not

These are laws that enforce quotas on employers which go against a man's freedom to associate with whom he pleases.

Tell that to the 3,000+ people who went to tribunal citing racial discrimination in the period 2013-14.



Can you show me the law which sets out what these quotas are?

There are no quotas, they don't exist.

I agree that the state should have very little influence on peoples everyday lives and I particularly like the legislation Farage was speaking of disposing just because it had very little effect on business, two people applying for a job one black and one white, the employer will always have the final say in whom (s)he hires. My problem is Farage saying that racism is not a problem, when it actually is, now incredibly so with our unprecedented levels of immigration.

Well to be fair it isn't to do with race but nationality and culture.

Farage has said nothing I deem to be racist. Xenophobic perhaps but not racist.
Racism is not justifiable in anyway, in my opinion.

Xenophobia, however I do think can be justifed. It is a fact of life that different cultures exist. These cultures can often have ideas that a contrary to the native population.
It is certainly true that some cultures and its ideas are less problematic than others.
For example more people are against immigration from Islamic countries than from countries like Germany.

However. one must be careful to completely write off whole swathes of people.

Well, when Farage said that he wouldn't want to live on the same street as a romanian because they all are part of organised crime networks I think that crossed a line. He obviously backtracked, as he did after saying we should switch to an american style Healthcare system and as he did with these comments.
I find it rather hypocritical to be xenophobic (which is a fear of immigration as a whole) because Britain is an Ireland of immigrants, saxons, nordics, romans, etc. and even in the early 20th century there was loads of immigration, from Ireland, Africa, the west indies and west asia.
I most certainly do not think that giving employers the ability to go back to the days of "No Blacks, No Irish, No dogs" is an appropriate thing to do.

Farage never said all Romanians are all part of criminals gangs. He just defended people being cautious as they are more likely to be criminals, which was supported by statistics that showed Romanians seems to be arrested disproportionately for their population percentage.

Xenophobia is dependant on the types of cultures. There is less cultural conflict with other western democracies then compared to the Post Soviet bloc states and 3rd world and Islamic countries.

It is also wrong to say that Britain is a nation of immigrants. Britain was fairly homogenous in culture and could have be considered an ethnically 'white' country ( I don't think this is that important though).
We did allow immigrants to many groups such as Jews and the Huguenots but the numbers were far less relative to the numbers currently levels of immigration is at.

As well issues from strain of public services, introducing hundreds of thousands of people from different cultures can lead to conflict if not properly managed.


As for the '"No Blacks, No Irish, No dogs" signs, do you really think businesses who displayed these signs would last long even without legislation?
They'd be out of business in a week and shunned by the local community.

I suspected as much.

UKIPers desperately trying to justify Farage's stupid remarks.

He still generalised, by saying that he wouldn't have a Romanian living on his street because there's a risk that the Romanian would be a criminal he made an openly discriminatory remark, openly xenophobic and quite possibly racist against Roma people.
Yes, and that's why it's so easy for people to get Xenophobia and Racism confused, but I can guarantee if these laws are abandoned people's liberty will be lost. I don't believe in complete equality, but I do believe in some equality of opportunity. Making it harder for some ethnic minorities to work and get money puts them in an even worse position, you can't give someone the freedom to hate and take the freedom to work from someone else.
Imagine the strain on public services if we didn't have immigration? That argument doesn't exactly play into your hands.
It all depends on where the business is that has those signs, in an urban place obviously it would cause an upset, but for example on the east anglia coast, it may well be a different story. All will cause further separation between the city and the countryside