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As someone sympathetic to this, throwing in the culture war stuff (make jokes about LGBT etc) is a massive own goal and makes it so easy for people to discredit. This could have far more cross-party support but it's just going to amuse the people who already agreed with it and make everyone else think it's the alt-right letting the mask slip..
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> This is in fact an extremely large, dare I say representative, demographic. It might well be. I didn't suggest otherwise. > You are in fact criticising it by accusing the author of "unconscious bias" No, I'm not, that's why I took the time to explicitly say so. I made no "accusation," you've just taken it that way. We all have unconscious biases and we all act them out in various ways. I made absolutely no value ju…
No, I don't buy this "I'm just making a neutral observation" schtick for one second. When people say "unconscious bias", they believe that the "bias" is harmful. If they didn't, why would it be so important to talk about? You are actually making a value judgement here, you just won't say so explicitly. >I intentionally used an atypical demographic reality to demonstrate my point: that person is just as much "a 30 yea…
You're welcome believe what you like but I'm not sure why I should engage with you if you refuse to believe what I assert about my own position and if you insist on re-framing my words with an accusatory tone that wasn't there.
I believe unconscious biases can and do have harmful effects yes. But everyone has them and it's common to let them influence our work. There's no shame in it and I certainly didn't make any value judgement against the author of this piece.
> The housing market in SE England sucks if you're young and work for a living; doesn't matter if gay or straight, man or woman
Similarly, I haven't made any statement remotely to the contrary. This is a strawman.
> I reject the notion that we can't talk about problems unless literally every last little niche demographic is affected.
And once again: this is not a notion that could be reasonably construed from what I said above.
I hope you feel better after getting your emotions out but I would encourage you to re-read this thread tomorrow and ask yourself how much you were projecting and perceived qualm onto me.
I hope you have a good night in any case. Goodbye
I mean, you are literally in power, you can just change it. What's the point of this?
I live in the East Midlands in the UK. You can grab a reasonable first house here for less than £150k quite easily. So you'll need a 5% deposit, £7,500 for one of those. One person on an average salary for the area would be able to afford a mortgage for a house like this on their own. But Nick has a girlfriend, who can hopefully work, so should be able to afford it easily. But half of people earn less than the mean s…
>And on top of this, Lifetime ISAS are a thing, so you only need to save up 80% of your deposit, the govt will pay the rest. And shared ownership is a thing, making it even easier. LISAs are a trap if you want to buy in the South. You can only use it if the value of the property is £450k or less. The limit hasn't been raised since 2017 despite crazy house price inflation. So many people got completely fucked by this;…
In London it limits you. Outside of London, including most of the South, where the vast majority of British people live, most first houses cost less than £450k.
The limit should have been raised though yes. Or perhaps it should be set by region, I don't know. Hopefully it will be updated at some point.
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I doubt few are arguing that various Africans should be punished by losing their traditional farming land of many generations because of the iceberg lettuce consuming actions of others they are unaware of. None the less it continues to happen.
They are not talking about the Africans. They are talking about the British. Immigration has had many negative effects on social cohesion in the UK. That is just an unfortunate fact. That is obvious if you have lived in poorer areas of some the cities in the UK. When this subject is normally broached on TV channels such as the BBC. The argument often put forth is that we should accept large amounts of immigration bec…
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You tell that to the People's Republic of China, to Burkina Faso and many others. If you accepted your silly little racial capitalism wasn't completely obsolete and morally bankrupt, maybe there would be hope for you island people.
Tbh I do think we should look to them for how they deal with the Muslims
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And it’s actually good. Immigration does not do 30 year olds any favours. It only helps businesses and pensioners.
It helps everyone, migrants pay more taxes than they get out of the system in benefits. Plus they often do jobs that many people wouldn't otherwise
because the wages are low, why are the wages low? because these jobs have access to an unlimited amount of strikebreakers/migrants willing to do them for those low wages, so the wage stays suppressed and low, instead of allowing market mechanics to bring those wages up
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> hardly the migrants fault Of course not, but it's the fault of whoever lobbied for and passed those laws. > we are inviting them. Who is this "we"? It's not the British people.
> It's not the British people. Maybe not you , but plenty of British people support immigration. Believe it or not.
not many i bet
has any government ever went to an election with the promise that they are going to increase immigration rates if they are elected, and won?
no because its electoral suicide to do so
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I assume that means you couldn't understand the irony. Europeans colonised and took over most of the world. As in, they moved to places that weren't theirs and imposed their values unto others to steal as much as they could from the countries they invaded. Now they complain others are doing the same to them and whine when others are fighting back.