tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1244044300216345080.post7781442809249309302..comments2024-03-04T10:20:10.154+00:00Comments on Anna Chen: Madam Miaow Says: Ethnically cleansing working class history: my Guardian articleMadam Miaowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10237951918529887305noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1244044300216345080.post-48502793164073446162013-07-20T17:01:18.866+01:002013-07-20T17:01:18.866+01:00Steve, we need a debate and an understanding about...Steve, we need a debate and an understanding about how working class people and proletarianised middle classes can offer some challenge against the war being waged against us. Giving in to a sentimentalised image of an all white Britain and thereby setting up non-whites as outsiders and potential scapegoats by excluding them doesn't help.<br /><br />We complain about the Labour Party triangulating its position using focus groups, and yet this is how the left is looking as well. Are the polls ringing loud for them? Are they throwing non-white ethnic people out of the back of the sleigh to carve out a position for themselves?<br /><br />The film is about 1945 and its <i>legacy</i>. It takes us up to the Thatcher years. To fail to include, for example, even one Caribbean person whose forebears probably came over in the Windrush wave of migration to work for our NHS and transport system, is to make a statement in itself. If he really couldn't find someone of colour from the Year 45, then why not one of the younger talking heads? <br /><br />It's sad to see a prominent socialist filmmaker being pulled away from his political roots, even if it's unconsciously. And it's important to ask him to come back home. Madam Miaowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10237951918529887305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1244044300216345080.post-82187686880647427732013-07-20T16:23:31.582+01:002013-07-20T16:23:31.582+01:00Wow.
Have a rose. You choose the colour. I'd ...Wow.<br /><br />Have a rose. You choose the colour. I'd hate to get it wrong. It would just expose me as the uncaring racist imperialist that you probably wish I am...<br /><br />I despair. It depresses me beyond tables and sends me beyond pills...<br /><br />my youthful optimism for the left now strikes me as that of junk mail addressed the dead.<br /><br />Even Ken Loach is proto-fascist after all.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02250240553795493810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1244044300216345080.post-65608038490184915812013-07-19T14:31:55.296+01:002013-07-19T14:31:55.296+01:00Thanks for the linkage to my post. Thanks for the linkage to my post. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08034337238839449346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1244044300216345080.post-40151597045354477592013-07-19T09:00:59.687+01:002013-07-19T09:00:59.687+01:00Anna, this is a brilliant article, and I have reco...Anna, this is a brilliant article, and I have recommended it to my friends. Thank you for sharing it.Corneliushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06782914097860066903noreply@blogger.com