Farage’s racism

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I haven’t yet seen a post about this story: Twenty people allege he has a racist past. He denies it. Who’s telling the truth about Farage’s schooldays? | Nigel Farage | The Guardian

Farage no longer categorically denies these incidents, and is now trying to fudge things by saying he didn’t mean any harm and it was a long time ago - presumably because he knows it is true and realises that 20 separate people saying it means only the truly deluded wouldn’t believe he was a racist.

But what I am interested in is does this actually assist his election chances? We already know that many of his supporters are racists - does it actually work for him that this blatant racism from him shores up their support? Are they secretly (or perhaps not so secretly in some cases) pleased?

And what do those of you who are Reform supporters but believe yourself not be racist think? Does it make you change your mind about him or Reform?

Have you did you call someone a p* 50 years ago ? Or you think someone should have been gassed i mean if you said that as a teenager you should be ashamed.

No of course I didn’t but I just don’t care what someone said 50 yrs ago . I can’t make it any clearer .

It’s no surprise you don’t care, is it? You’re all over the immigration threads like a rash spreading your racist shite. If Farage murdered a child asylum seeker on live TV you’d be cheering for him.

If I was racist I’d be banned . I do want controlled immigration yes .

You don't care that Nigel farage said hateful bigoted things at school and he continues to say them ,?

If you don't care what he said then do you agree with what he said?

You’re as bad as him, that’s why you don’t care and you’re downplaying it. If people are calling him racist now, and it comes out several times he was also racist in his younger days, then guess what? There is a reason for it and that reason is he’s a racist piece of pond scum and hasn’t changed from that day to this. He can’t claim he’s learnt from it. No one is surprised.

You’re all so tiresome .

Fb post which triggered this whole reporting of Farage as a teenager.

www.facebook.com/share/1DqTR9wCZN/?mibextid=wwXIfr

I know, right? Objecting to racism, so tiresome.

God that is damning.

Better tiresome than an apologist for a racist.

Do you care that he can't bring himself to unreservedly apologise? That all the signs indicate he still thinks like that?

That is unspeakable. Absolutely horrifying.

Absolute rubbish. I'm older than him and I never laughed at racist jokes, or made comments like he has done.
Give me Starmer with no sense of humour any day, than a nasty racist pig like him

It’s interesting that the Farage apologists are pushing the age that he did this younger and younger. To 11 in some cases. He was a teenager-specifically a 6th former.

Not only that but it wasn't uncommon when travelling on the tube in summer, for instance, to see people with blue number sequences tattooed on their forearms. As a child I was taught not to stare, but I was also taught about what they had suffered.

I am really glad you find me tiresome. I'd rather be tiresome to you than the alternative.

💯.
I saw a recent interview of the MAGA crowd and when asked about Trump’s numerous crimes including SA, both the men and women just didn’t care as that’s how much they were invested in him and his views. The reporter then changed tack and asked if there was anything he could do that would make them not vote for him like, I dunno - murder? And a good number said no, nothing would make them not vote for him!

@FluffAndBrush Farage isn’t from some distant age. He’s 6 months younger than me. I didn’t use racist terms and neither did anyone I was friends with. There were some open racists, of course, but it was very much frowned on. We campaigned against apartheid in South Africa so we were aware of the effects of racism.
But more than that, a lot of our parents had been in the forces during or just after WW2. Saying ‘Hitler was right’ or making hissing gas noises at Jews would have been considered way, way beyond the pale even by the sort of casual racists who would talk about the ‘P’ shop.
If you are going to try to place him in context, that context isn’t ’long time ago, racism was ok’.

It would be great if racists were banned, sadly it's far from the case.

There are plenty of teenagers who said things that were more commonly said than now, even though never acceptable. There are others in public life whose teenage comments have come back to haunt them, who have apologised and stated they no longer hold those views.

Nigel Farage has done neither.

Exactly.

If only..........

Nah, it's bad. Wanting to send people to gas chambers is bad. There is no world in which an 18 year old prefect saying such things and tormenting his schoolmates because they are Jewish is not bad. There has been no apology from him.

As I said upthread, if Kier Starmer were accused of such things, there would be a feeding frenzy by the languidly unconcerned and dismissive when it applies to Farage.

I know his supporters won't care but a lot of us do and we're not going to let this go.