Scary – Britain’s Growing Hatred
If you need to be scared about the direction of Britain’s people, then look no further than the comments in response to an article about a failed asylum seeker’s death on an aircraft in the process of deportation. A 45 year old woman who likes poetry said ‘No, it’s because we are fed up to the back teeth with false asylum seekers. We, the British taxpaying public.’ This closely followed by another commentator saying ‘sorry but you are not going to get much sympathy when it comes to asylum seekers, people in this country have had enough of Britain being a soft touch. SEND THEM BACK.’ Read through, it is an eye opener.
It is very hard to understand how people come to hate other people, the majority of whom pose very little physical risk to them and theirs and who constitute a small minority of the population, that much. I know where I lay the blame. It is the rhetoric of politicians looking to score cheap points and the media looking to find some scapegoats to blame and sell news. The asylum seeker and the immigrant, guaranteed to strike a point and with little chance of retaliation as many of them do not want to rock the boat by responding. Even better if the chosen target have been refused asylum.
Many people who respond with this hatred do not even understand the asylum seeking process. It appears to be standard practise to refuse asylum on first application so all asylum seekers, including those that have been granted asylum eventually, have been failed asylum seekers. And I would ask how many of those who responded to the article actually knew that asylum claims fell as compared to last year. Many know that our Government will not acknowledge human rights abuses in countries where our interests are at stake and that, as in the case of the new policy on Zimbabwean asylum seekers, conflicting policies – sanctions and forced deportations – are in place. Whichever way you dress this there is always a racial undertone to, not all, but most objections to asylum seeking. Will ex-Zimbabwean white farmers and their families be deported too?
Yes, Jimmy Mubenga is said to have been a violent criminal and that his asylum application had failed but at what stage do we as human beings accept that killing him or people like him acceptable? After the asylum seekers, who next do we get to hate?
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