Comments by "John Roberts" (@view1st) on "The Spectator" channel.

@hasan_z it wasn't the politicians that sold you out of was the CEO's and their shareholders: they are the ones who relocated their businesses elsewhere.
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 @Timrath I think he meant discard.
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Why China? Why not look to your own recent past? I'm sure you'll be able to draw parallels between then and now.
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I agree. I absolutely hate this apparent Americanisation of British English.
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@Mr.Artude It's a term that far right/alt‐right groups use as a subtle 'dog whistle' to attack the Muslim community in places like Rotherham by implying that what are young and below legal age but still adult (teenage) prostitutes that are forced into prostitution rackets that just happen to be run by people of colour are children and thus increase the enmity against such groups (in the case of Rotherham it being Muslims of Asian extraction). It fits in with their overall anti‐immigrant ideology. You see, as hate speech against Homosexuals and transexuals has been made more or less taboo (being as these sexualities are now officially supported and protected by the state) the far right don't get as much traction outside their traditional audience as they once did by attacking homosexuals and transsexuals and such homophobic/transphobic hate speech might even leave these far right/alt‐right groups open to prosecution. Going after pedosexuals/paedophilia on the other hand is still fair game. Grooming is another word for seduction but its used by the mainstream media almost exclusively in the context of paedophilia to delegitimise it, thus by using this word these far right/alt‐right groups hope to conjure up in (white) people's minds sweet little innocent white children being horribly raped, brutalised and violated by evil, swarthy blackamoor brutes, unassimilable Muslim savages who just don't fit into the wonderful (white) Anglo-Saxon world or (white) Western Christendom of the alt‐right. Both left and right, extreme or not, can get behind this message.
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@ManicChampion The Christian Bible and Jewish Torah say similar things, as I'm sure other religious texts do. But the fact is, most people, the vast majority, do not live by a literal interpretation of these holy books.
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How many generations must pass before an immigrant group can claim residency rights? And how big does an immigrant demographic have to be vis‐à‐vis the locals before they can expect respect of their culture by the host culture?
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Legalisation backed by strict regulation, good evidence‐backed education and pragmatic implementation is what is probably needed.
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He's also that most conservative of Conservatives who's smug and self-satisfied to boot.
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The question was wrong. It should be: why does the deep state/military‐industrial complex want Facebook brought under even greater control than it already has been?
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@IAM REAL A mere formality. Like democracy. Like freedom to know the truth. A mere formality.
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Or rather, the USA funding, training, arming, supplying, protecting, providing intelligence and compiling kill lists for these so-called islamists (actually paramilitary terrorists) through their proxies the Saudis.
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Amongst other reasons.
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Pro or anti; for or against?
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You mean prostitution rings. Call it by its name. The phrase 'grooming gangs' is an alt‐right term.
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@kennygregg9571 If they are forced into prostitution the word 'grooming' is redundant as the word implies some level of cooperation on the part of the person being groomed. In this case, however, these prostitutes were forced. Think, why aren't prostitution rings involving adults of legal age referred to as 'seduction gangs' or 'grooming gangs'? As I've already said this term is one used, typically but not exclusively, by the far right/alt right purely for its emotional effect and only in the context of children and young adults for the reasons I've already outlined.
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@ManicChampion "Something clearly defined in religious texts." I don't understand. Are you suggesting that Muslim religious texts condone prostitution or rape? Or more precisely, that your average British Muslim (I presume it is Muslims you're referring to) actually take seriously the more extreme passages written in their holy books?
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@ultrademigod Don't forget to add MGM, male genital mutilation, to the list, practised widely in the West and all but universal in the USA. And acid attacks honour killings aren't restricted either to Muslims or the Middle East.
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@kennygregg9571 Calling something that you don't agree with as being "lefty" and "Marxist" is also an indication of right wing leanings.
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@awuma I suppose what you're trying to say is that some cultures, societies, political-economic systems are just inherently better than others. But better at what? How do you evaluate? Have you ever heard of the 'naturalistic fallacy'?
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