Galloway speaks at "Anti-war Movement at the Crossroads" raly in Manchester
Chris Edwards | 09.11.2003 00:40 | Anti-militarism
Chris Edwards
Chris Edwards | 09.11.2003 00:40 | Anti-militarism
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Georgie Porgie
09.11.2003 01:18
Take a good look at the photo. Would you welcome any of them into your home?
I wouldn't trust any of them as far as I could throw them. In George's case that's as
far as I could drag him spreading his slime all over the floor.
Yuk!
The @nti war movement can be so much more.
Pudding and Pie
Duped Audience
09.11.2003 02:58
Rebel W
EXactly!
09.11.2003 03:00
Salma Yaqoob
Our Glorious Leader
09.11.2003 11:08
What a working class hero he is LOL
Gorged Galloway
Racist comment
09.11.2003 20:29
The SWP'a and Galloway's "crime" is that they want to build an alliance with British muslims mobilised into action by the Iraq War. This is obviously too advanced an idea for the Islamophobic white British left.
Chris
Not racist
09.11.2003 23:40
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That won't wash
10.11.2003 00:46
The appropriately named "Pudding and Pie" said:
"Take a good look at the photo. Would you welcome any of them into your home?...I wouldn't trust any of them as far as I could throw them...Yuk".
It can be see that the Asian woman in the photo, Salma Yaqoob, visited this page and read this comment. Can you imagine how she must have felt reading it? I think her reply says it all. She obviously felt insulted and didn't feel disposed to waste too much breath replying.
Is this the way we are going to build trust and a political relationship between between Asian anti-war activists and the white left? I think not.
Is it too much to ask that, instead of disingenuous apologetics, she should receive a public apology on this page from the racist idiot that wrote it?
Don't hold your breath.
And when is this comment going to be "hidden"???
Chris
Insult to CND leader
10.11.2003 01:12
WHAT HAS SHE DONE TO DESERVE THIS KIND OF COMPLETELY UNPROVOKED ATTACK?
Another apology is needed.
When IS this insulting post going to be hidden, UK Indymedia?
Bill
I spy a troll
10.11.2003 01:24
No, it can be seen that someone posted a comment using her name. It might be her, but it could have been me, you, or anybody else. Past experience suggests that people posting under other real people's names is fairly common, especially with names related to the article in question.
I don't in any way deny that the comment in question was insulting -- that was quite clearly the intention. But the mere fact that one of the people it was directed at is Asian does not make it a *racist* insult. It appears not to be motivated by her race, but more by the fact that they are all on a platform with Galloway, for whom the author appears to have a strong dislike (which I don't particularly share by the way, but that's beside the point).
Now go and do something more useful than trolling the newswire.
Trollspotter
Unfair maybe but not racist
10.11.2003 01:34
And it seems a lot of people wonder that about the SWP.
Andrew
Lions and Tigers and SWP, Oh my!
10.11.2003 12:12
Shock! Horror! Peace campaigners actually have political views and "agendas" about other stuff! Socialists actually want to build a socialist movement! Help! Help!
Seriously you lot, get a grip.
Why is it so frightening to you lot that an avowedly socialist party like the SWP or the SP or the SA wants to push its agenda and its policies? Of course it does!
I'm anarchist myself, but I hope a pragmatic one and it does us no good running screaming from anyone who looks like they're more than just a single-issue geek.
The only war worth fighting is the class war, after all.
As for the alleged racism of Galloway-baiter "Pudding and Pie", I think both sides are wrong.
The original comment was stupid, mean-spirited and ignorant, but it wasn't "racist", at least not in any way that matters outside of a students' union bar.
Can we all get on with opposing Bush and the war now please? Thank you.
Mad Monk
Grow Up
10.11.2003 13:45
This is however an entirely insignificant issue when contrasted with the moron who starts throwing round accusations of racism. If i said i didn't want George Galloways Crew from the photo, in my house, that is what i would say. The only person who is focussing on skin colour is the fool who started shouting racist, racist. It wasn't an issue till you made it one.
Big Fun
great
28.11.2003 15:11
nevermind