Posted on 07/08/2025 4:57:54 AM PDT by Twotone
~I have received several complaints from readers wanting to know why I didn't observe the twentieth anniversary of the so-called 7/7 bombings yesterday. Well, it's for the same reason that SteynOnline no longer observes the 9/11 anniversary. Because we dishonoured the dead: we were summoned to a great societal challenge and could not muster the will to rise to it. As I wrote (all together now) twenty bloody years ago:
It has been sobering this past week watching some of my 'woollier' colleagues (in Vicki Woods's self-designation) gradually awake to the realisation that the real suicide bomb is 'multiculturalism'. Its remorseless tick-tock, suddenly louder than the ethnic drumming at an anti-globalisation demo, drove poor old Boris Johnson into rampaging around this page last Thursday like some demented late-night karaoke one-man Fiddler on the Roof, stamping his feet and bellowing, 'Tradition! Tradition!' Boris's plea for more Britishness was heartfelt and valiant, but I'm not sure I'd bet on it. The London bombers were, to the naked eye, assimilated - they ate fish'n'chips, played cricket, sported appalling leisurewear. They'd adopted so many trees we couldn't see they lacked the big overarching forest - the essence of identity, of allegiance. As I've said before, you can't assimilate with a nullity - which is what multiculturalism is.
And here we are twenty years later, with the official observances still demanding that we "assimilate with a nullity". His Majesty The King:
As we remember those we lost, let us therefore use this 20th anniversary to reaffirm our commitment to building a society where people of all faiths and backgrounds can live together with mutual respect and understanding, always standing firm against those who would seek to divide us.
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Can someone explain this to me?
I think what he is saying is that if Britain had retained a strong British culture, it would be “something” and there could be an expectation that newcomers would have to assimilate to that and adopt a clearly British way of approaching the world. Assimilation builds common identity.
But Multiculturalism isn’t anything. It is a nullity. Your culture is “whatever” and so assimilation is never possible — there isn’t anything to assimilate to. So there is no common identity in Britain. Which tears down the social fabric.
Thank you.
Snide, condescending remarks can be amusing.
Britain is not designed to be a melting pot like the US, it is designed as a nation of the indigenous and multicultural only in the sense of encompassing English, Welsh, Scottish and, to a certain extent, Irish within that identity framework.
Everything else is alien and in conflict with the native culture. That is not to say other cultures cannot have a small amount of space within the UK but they must remain firmly a minority and understand and accept their place as a minority that originated from outside Britain and not part of the dominant culture.
Britain is not designed to be a melting pot like the US, it is designed as a nation of the indigenous and multicultural only in the sense of encompassing English, Welsh, Scottish and, to a certain extent, Irish within that identity framework.
Should have thought about that before they had all those colonies....what did they expect?
Blaming this on colonialism ignores the fact that this same crap happened to other European countries like Sweden. Since when did they engage in global imperialism?
The Japanese also had a colonial Empire but they weren’t stupid enough to invite the people they conquered in and they don’t have the same issues Europe and North America has.
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