Yesterday I walked up to the smoking area where I work and stumbled into a convo. Two or three were ranting about Muslims being allowed "over here" and how they can live a Muslim life in Britain but that we can't go "over there" and live as we choose.

I waited just long enuff to check that my ears weren't deceiving me and then chipped in.

Suffice to say that these folk had no comeback for the refutations of their ignorance I gave. I was chuffed to see others, who'd previously been silent, nod and smile as I spoke. Perhaps, just perhaps, the ignorant ones may now choose to go inform themselves rather than swallow mass media divisive twaddle (I'll certainly be encouraging them to do so).

So, here's a thread to post your experiences of confronting ignorance in our daily lives

Christ, where to start.

My work place labels include 'race traitor', 'secret Muslim' and 'Paki lover'. None of which are directed to me personally but passed on through other people.

I work with a very sad bunch of ignorant bigots. Thankfully most of them give me a wide berth and have given up arguing with me.

I've had conversations with people who try to convince me that any minute now we will all be converted to Islam 'coz dats wot da cunts want' and when I laugh in their faces they get very upset - which always cheers me up.

I made a comment that I considered our armed forces to be nothing more than corporate sponsored murders which lead, I was told, to two fellas wanting to 'get me' for my comments. Sadly, I have not been 'got' yet.

I have various posters up in my department, all anti-war & anti-racism. My 'end racism through unity' poster was defaced with the letters EDL and some inventive soul even carved those letters onto my work bench. Bless!

I get a lot of tough guy stares from some of the more vocal bigots but none of the stoneless idiots have the courage to confront me directly.

All in all it makes for a very interesting work place experience.

Thankfully we employ plenty of African and Asian engineery types so I get plenty of opportunities to discuss the real world with intelligent people. Speaking to them seems to upset a lot of the old white folk - - so I'm obviously doing something right.

I must confess that I rip the piss out of the bigots, especially in front of their friends, and it is a joy to see the righteous indignation on their ugly cunt mugs when I rip into them.

Good skills Hugo

knobmeup wrote:
I've had nearly 30 years of dealing with racist maggots.

From being suspended at secondary school for slapping about a couple of NF six formers whom I caught having a spitting contest at a young Indian lad, to getting FB death threats last week from British Billy for posting the wonderful Muslamic Ray Gun vid.

My mission in life is to antagonise bigots. Ok, so it's a bit like shooting fish in a barrel but a chap has to have fun now and then.

[EDIT] I nearly forgot. My 'stance' in the workplace has led to me missing out on the birthday donuts that get offered around from time to time.

I hope you guys come up with some type of strategy to get rid of the EDL over there asasp...

I explained to a woman on a train today how the economic system works, how the monetary system works, that there is no such thing as legal tender in Britain, the meaning of the ‘I promise to pay’ statement on currency that no-one ever notices, how taxation works, how it’s all ultimately fed into one private bank, why it's unfair, and some good ways to avoid it, why banks get into financial difficulties, why the bank bailouts happened, what contribution members of the general public made, how the employment market works, what the best paid employment sectors and jobs in the country are and why, and how to avoid the TV Licencing Authority.

I had a lot more still to tell her, but I’d reached my stop.

Good skills wub

Well done wub.

I'm visualising a scene like Matt Damon's character talking to the nun at the opening of Dogma.

Lest you've missed it .........

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Why not give us your strategy for wiping out the KKK?

Better still dotty, why not take your ignorance elsewhere?

feather wrote: Thank you for posting that. I hadn’t seen that, that looks like an interesting film, I might give that a go sometime.

I think people are actually quite receptive if you present things in the right way to them. She certainly had some valid and relevant things to say. When it comes down to it, most people intrinsically and instinctively know that the world is unfair, corrupt and upside-down. It’s just that they don’t understand, or aren’t aware of, the mechanisms that underpin it.

I absolutely fundamentally believe that the education system is key to this and the most important part of social manipulation, because if you let people’s brains develop naturally, and allow them to draw their own organic conclusions about things, you would get a completely different outcome from what we see now. It’s vital that you train them to be productive cogs in the crony capitalist gangbang system, and deny them the information they need to understand it.

I find that I get on far better at getting through to women than men. Maybe I just make more effort to impress women. That would seem to be quite a likely explanation.

Gilly wrote:
I live in the North East i never heard of them in this area before if they are active they must be down south.

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That's a feeble excuse. It's OK in your country then, so long as it's not in your particular area. Come on - you want us to form a strategy for dismantling the aggressive bigots over here. Why don't you have a plan for doing it in your own country. Hurry up! Sort it out!

Gilly wrote:
I honestly thought the KKK was old and long gone i never hear about them ever or any occasion....tbh

But the EDL seem to be a very active issue in British conspiracy news and on these forums ect.....

Well now that you know they're still active, you'd better get your finger out & do something about it. Let us know your strategy.

So all we Brits are aware of the KKK being active yet it slipped right by you?

Uhuh



Turn it down a bit eh.

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Do you know a way to get rid of small minded bigots?

Nevermind the UK, SZ could use that info

feather wrote:
It's true they hardly get mentioned other than on TV shows about prison gangs and stuff like.

It's nothing at all like the EDL as a current movement which are active and getting media attention now.

Only reason i even mentioned it was because Hugo said his unity' poster was defaced with the letters EDL at work.

feather wrote:
But it goes to 11!

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I vote that we deport them to one of the colonies. You chaps have plenty of room over there, you don't mind do you?

Now that racism no longer exists in the States (see recent Voting Rights Act ruling) you can teach them the error of their ways.

You'd be doing us a massive, massive favour. Bigger than dubyadubya2.