The DM get money each time you click on their wretched site, through revenue. So I will not give them any more income for their bigoted, hysterical, ignorant and fact-thin journalism. I am a journalist and trust me, I know their ethos and even the remit some of their journalists are giving. I would NEVER work for them.
Yes there needs to be discussion and communities need to get together. But when whole races of people are lumped into one as 'threatening' and 'always begging' then there is a problem with perception and yes, the defiinition of racism is to assume that all people of one race are identical.
When Irish people immigrated here, there was so vile feeling from people - with the infamous No dogs, No blacks, No Irish up in boarding houses countrywide. Now I have heard Irish immigrants moan about Eastern Europeans. It is a matter of newness. During the war, we begged West Indian people to come to Britain.
We are a multi-cultural society. My mother and her family came here when the partition (India and Pakistan) seemed to be heading into danger. They all worked hard here and became doctors, surgeons and a dentist. My cousin is currently a Professor of Cardiology, doing some very important research that is saving lives. But the amount of abuse and horrible language they received during their time here, was appalling. Filled with hatred and stupidity. I even had it at school. You have no idea how much it hurts and makes a person angry, to be called names and hated.
So yes, discussion by all means. But not in the rabble-rousing way that the DM employ. It's not helpful because it is the language of hate, not the language of rational discussion and compassion.