See here. And here. And find a transcript here.
Or dont bother if you prefer to apply heavy pinches of salt onto your political debate. Instead you could read this blog which has been commenting on vaguely similar things for the past couple of months...
Hazel Blears' talk has been branded as "outspoken" and "radical" by various media types. The basic issues are: Cutting down on political correctness; Promoting democratic based "equality"; Majority rule = majority control; Extremism being removed from the definition of "minority"; Creating a definitive "dividing line" between good and bad minorities; Clarity; And redefining extremism.
It's very hard to distinuish the Opposition-style manifesto rhetoric from the equality realities from the do-able measures. For instance: political correctness is causing the lines of justice to be blurred. True enough; but we all knew that anyway. And opinion of such things is subjective.
She is right though: The save the underdog approach of much liberal left thinking should indeed have its limits - but then in most educated lib-left circles it already does. We should be even more aware of the sensationalists: The people who prefer to point the finger rather than suggest an alternative. People who blindly criticise the exception provisions in HR legislation without thinking through the realities.
Overall I think what she says if good, although much of it is clearly rhetoric. She refers to Lenin's "useful idiots" (bear in mind that this works both ways). Avoidance of polar debate. Realisation of a spectrum. Avoiding an 'all for one or all for the other' attitude. A "plea for enhanced literacy" on discourse over political Islam. "Moral clarity". etc etc...
Political rhetoric it certainly is but it does carry a much needed message for the assumers and labelers who are bringing multiculture to its knees. We all knew it, now we just need our leaders in-the-know to start daring to say so.
From a political perspecive the talk was released at the same time as this. Highlighting much of the irrelevance of labours action for equality from an economic perspective. So as for Blears' Britain I'm not so sure, equality will develop according to the majority and the majority is more likely to be affected by a crunched credit system than a politician - however reasonable.
Or dont bother if you prefer to apply heavy pinches of salt onto your political debate. Instead you could read this blog which has been commenting on vaguely similar things for the past couple of months...
Hazel Blears' talk has been branded as "outspoken" and "radical" by various media types. The basic issues are: Cutting down on political correctness; Promoting democratic based "equality"; Majority rule = majority control; Extremism being removed from the definition of "minority"; Creating a definitive "dividing line" between good and bad minorities; Clarity; And redefining extremism.
It's very hard to distinuish the Opposition-style manifesto rhetoric from the equality realities from the do-able measures. For instance: political correctness is causing the lines of justice to be blurred. True enough; but we all knew that anyway. And opinion of such things is subjective.
She is right though: The save the underdog approach of much liberal left thinking should indeed have its limits - but then in most educated lib-left circles it already does. We should be even more aware of the sensationalists: The people who prefer to point the finger rather than suggest an alternative. People who blindly criticise the exception provisions in HR legislation without thinking through the realities.
Overall I think what she says if good, although much of it is clearly rhetoric. She refers to Lenin's "useful idiots" (bear in mind that this works both ways). Avoidance of polar debate. Realisation of a spectrum. Avoiding an 'all for one or all for the other' attitude. A "plea for enhanced literacy" on discourse over political Islam. "Moral clarity". etc etc...
Political rhetoric it certainly is but it does carry a much needed message for the assumers and labelers who are bringing multiculture to its knees. We all knew it, now we just need our leaders in-the-know to start daring to say so.
From a political perspecive the talk was released at the same time as this. Highlighting much of the irrelevance of labours action for equality from an economic perspective. So as for Blears' Britain I'm not so sure, equality will develop according to the majority and the majority is more likely to be affected by a crunched credit system than a politician - however reasonable.
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