Comments by "SsjC" (@ssjcosty) on "LBC" channel.

@BoBo-yn4xf Yes.
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I disagree. I too am British and proud. And I say our country is richer thanks to the diversity of cultures that have been and still are mixing here. As someone who has travelled quite a bit and lived in other countries for years at a time, and who has also interacted with a lot of people from expat communities, I think it’s valuable for an immigrant to learn from the local culture but to also not discard one’s own culture. Immigrants benefit from having significant exposure to more than one culture, so often times they notice issues and have insights that a local untravelled person is blind to. However, if you are an immigrant and find that the new local culture that you find yourself in is full of violent degenerates who want to harm immigrants such as yourself, then the safest bet is to feign respect to them, and find a way to move out as soon as you can. Peace!
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@medgang Don’t engage with these trolls. Their comments are just intended to poke at you and make you feel uncomfortable and inadequate, as they get satisfaction from this. But you aren’t obligated to justify yourself to them. Move on.
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⁠ @chatham43 That’s what “free education” means though: education funded by the state, with money obtained from a variety of taxes.
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Back then, did you align with Gove's view that "the people of this country have had enough of experts"? When most of the experts (economists, political consultants, university professors, etc.) explained all the problems that Brexit would cause, did you think they were just lying?
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Nobody is “educating” anyone here. O’Brien is refuting this guy’s arguments and false claims, and that’s it.
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But why would that be the case? I come from a Eastern European country where everybody has ID cards and it's never really been an issue. In all my decades I've never been required to carry it with me all the time. The point of the ID card is to prove your identity and residence when you have a need for it - e.g. signing up for a new phone service, internet service, registering at a new bank etc. On the other hand, I've been in the UK for a few years now and everytime I need to sign up for a service, even for local libraries, I have to bring way too much evidence to prove my identity, like rent contract, utility bill from the last 3 months, things that are never on hand like an ID card would be.
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@johnandrews4144 The analogy doesn't work because here the people who are kicking them are far better off and in no mortal danger, whereas the actual refugees on small boats are the desperate ones who have almost nothing to hang on to. These types of intellectual exercises, analogies and metaphors are all fine in the abstract, but the reality is that desperate people, some of them trafficked, are in need of immediate help and support, not a boot to the face.
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It does matter, because it makes it so much harder to justify the Church's influence in parliament and schools in this country. One third of all state schools are religious, collective worship is imposed by law in schools across England and Wales, parliamentary sessions begin with prayers, and 26 Church of England bishops sit in the House of Lords. And the census results just talk about Christianity in general being in the minority, but the share that's specifically Church of England is only 12% of the UK, thus making their privileged position in our parliament and state schools indefensible.
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@deborahneale7048 It’s true, the caller does sound sheltered, like he’s never lived in a multicultural place before, so he just bases his opinions on stereotypes, hearsay and what he reads in tabloids. That said, we do need to be aware that bringing people and families of different cultures into sheltered communities like these can spark tensions, potentially hatred and violence. Pretending to not understand that sheltered people have prejudices like these is also bad.
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