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You’re taking the interpretation of the author of that article as the words that DHH said.

Do you legitimately believe DHH would say those are his beliefs?



I hope that you have read the article but they have given a sound reasoning behind it.

DHH mentions 39% or something which was the population of native white and not native british as an example...

Please read the article link and they have given a proper sound reasoning...

>Do you legitimately believe DHH would say those are his beliefs?

Yes, I mean, DHH wrote it in his own blog post. There is still an argument to be made that DHH is far right but even he knows that it is bad and somehow tries to normalize it...

DHH might not say that these are his beliefs but his words in his blogs logically point to this conclusion. Why do you think that DHH said those words in his blogpost if he doesn't believe in such similar far right ideologies? Nobody forced him to write a blog post but himself...

Why do you think such things are not what DHH believes in? Do you have any evidence as the author of the article provides for their reasoning/interpretation?


> Why do you think such things are not what DHH believes in?

Because the one thing DHH doesn't do is shut up.

He hasn't really been the kind of person who minces words, he says what he thinks, and he is pretty unafraid of pissing people off. If he wanted to make explicit racist statements, it feels like he would make them.

My read is that this is broader commentary on civic/cultural integration. There are, fundamentally, immigration challenges that present themselves in modern society, especially when cultural values are different. I don't know that it's wise to believe that everyone will eventually see the world the same way, and we are then left with a question of how to reconcile that as we develop our societies and cultures.

Tommy Robinson is a violent anti-Islamic voice -- But, we've unfortunately found ourselves with those voices being the ones willing to speak to the problem that a growing portion of the population feels is unaddressed.

I don't think these are easy problems. I also cringe at calling Robinson's march "heartwarming" without qualification.

Yet I still am not willing to, without much stronger and more explicit evidence, read into DHH's words and label him a `far-right racist` -- Because I think that label loses effect when it's applied to every person that we disagree with on certain policy issues.




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