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Why ‘Bigotgate’ threw everything into disarray
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| Contributor | Hikikomori Blitzkrieg! |
| Last Edited | Hikikomori Blitzkrieg! May 01, 2010 12:07am |
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| Category | Analysis |
| Author | Brendan O'Neill |
| News Date | Saturday, May 1, 2010 04:05:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | ‘Bigotgate’, as Gordon Brown’s in-car gaffe has inevitably been labelled, is striking for three reasons.
First, it reveals the contempt of the political class for the electorate, especially the older, more northern, concerned-about-immigration electorate, whom the metropolitan political oligarchy effectively looks upon as an alien race. When Brown said to an aide that Gillian Duffy, who had accosted him as he was on a walkabout in Rochdale in Greater Manchester, was ‘just a bigoted woman’, he was giving voice to the political class’s rarely openly expressed but always-there disdain for the white working classes.
Bigotgate confirms the utter estrangement of the political elite from the mass of society. And it confirms that it is through the issue of immigration that the elite most acutely experiences and expresses that estrangement today. It is because Duffy dared to ask a question about Eastern European immigrants that Brown privately branded her a ‘bigot’. For the political elite, where you stand on race and immigration, whether or not you show sufficient levels of official tolerance in welcoming controlled numbers of migrants to Britain and celebrating their transformative impact on food, culture and society, determines whether you are one of Us (erudite and culturally aware) or one of Them (dumb, backward and racist). Bigotgate shows what official ‘anti-racism’ really means today: elite disdain for those ugly masses judged to be insufficiently cosmopolitan. |
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