Why Are Half Of Ukip Voters Racially Prejudiced?

[sp1814]

Does UKIP specifically appeal to those with racial prejudices?

Is this something that Farage needs to worry about?

Cards on the table, when I think about it, I reckon I have a few social*, rather than racial prejudices myself, and I bet that the majority of AB News contributors are the same.

(*A social prejudice is one based on a number of factors, such as educational background, job, attitudes to crime and whether the person reads the Daily Mail etc. I believe that social prejudices are just as bad as racial prejudices - but I acknowledge them and consciously avoid acting on them).

[Hypognosis]

@sp1814

I don't think any of your respondents have got to the nub of why some kippers *self-identify* as racist (despite your emphasis on the self-identification bit, three times, in the last couple of pages).

Now, we're none of us psychic so you have no choice but to locate some of them and speak to them to find out not just what they mean by that word but what their inner reasons are for their dislikes. The woman featured on the news said she "couldn't put her finger on it" and even - bizarrely - referred to 'past lives' (evidently a non-christian or a cheeseboard theist).

This is, of course predicated on the idea that you can even get them to stop and give you the time of day. If she's anything to go by, they won't.

"naom24

But they are specifically racially prejudiced against other races, which excludes prejudices against white immigrants (eg. from Eastern Europe).

That doesn't make sense to me."

Sounds like you don't understand their mentality. It's not about race, they just don't like 'foreigners' of *any* description. So the word you should be looking for is "xenophobic".

Or "equal opportunities xenophobe"?

This is just plain, old, tribalism, writ large. If you've got a great piece of territory upon which to raise your offspring, the last thing you want is to let outsiders get a share of it. One can believe all races are equal yet still be possessive about territory (as the Oyinbos thread ably demonstrated).

[naomi24]

sp, //But they are specifically racially prejudiced against other races, which excludes prejudices against white immigrants (eg. from Eastern Europe). //

Are they? Why do you think that? It seems to me they want an end to uncontrolled immigration. including the uncontrolled immigration of white people that our membership of Europe brings.

[Hypognosis]

@naomi

Yes, "white people sometimes don't even like other white people either". Do you think he'll keel over with the shock of this revelation?


In other words (and I'd like to know) how much of perceived racism is not about ethnicity, it's about the fact that one is there at all (when they'd far rather be keeping the job vacancy -ahem- 'in the family').

Which reminds me, there is still no law forbidding MPs from employing their own spouse, son or daughter as an 'assistant'. On £40k for Xt's sake!

[naomi24]

Hypognosis, // Do you think he'll keel over with the shock of this revelation? //

Possibly, but I hope not. :o)

[Hypognosis]

@Nomes,

Same here. Well, I was being metaphorical, anyway. That usually gets me into trouble but I can't kick the habit.

[naomi24]

:o)

[Hypognosis]

Has he gone away on holiday, or something?

I'm starting to notice that he hasn't responded to any of the questions I posed. Do they come across as rhetorical, or something?