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England Doesn't Belong To You

from Turn Back The Tide Of Bigotry by Active Minds

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There’s an alarming rise in nationalist stupidity and bigotry at the moment. The self-proclaimed “English Defence League” are capitalising on anti-Muslim sentiments in order to spread their own brand of intolerance.
What makes these people think that they’re speaking on behalf of the English? I’m English. Am I supposed to feel “defended” by them? Well, I don’t – I feel threatened by them. The ignorant attitudes that they’re promoting are a threat to all of us who don’t agree with them. They don’t speak for me, and they shouldn’t believe or claim that they do.
England is a product of its history. The people who live here are what it is today – a mixture of cultures and races from a wide variety of different backgrounds. To try to claim that you have some sort of ownership of the concept of being English in modern-day society is to try to turn the clock back not just decades but centuries. It’s overly simplistic, and a threat to liberty because it is aggressively hostile to those who don’t fit with their view of the country we all live in.

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These dickheads from the EDL – tell them all to go to hell. They declare themselves the nation’s saviour – fuck their ignorant behaviour. You’re telling us to “love it or leave it”, but who are you to tell us what to do? I’m telling you and you’d better believe it – England doesn’t belong to you. We don’t want your racist dreams – your forced repatriation schemes. Yours is the voice of bigotry. Don’t imagine that you speak for me. Yes, I was born into this place, but I don’t idealise my race. This nation is what it’s become – it doesn’t matter where we all came from.

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from Turn Back The Tide Of Bigotry, released September 14, 2012

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