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Demonizing Minorities
May. 20th, 2009 08:59 pmThe first really offensive leaflet of the current election campaign tries to divide our local community by demonizing a minority group who live in the area. To quote from the leaflet:
"Its[sic] a disgrace how common vandalism to car wing mirrors and wipers is. We will work with Brookes to ensure that the university has its porters out on the streets to prevent this happening..."
There is substantially more of this offensive nonsense. This leaflet tries to blame students from Brookes University for all the local crime. I would be interested to see what evidence these idiots have that students are responsible for vandalism to car wing mirrors. It feels like the students are getting the blame for all the litter in the area as well.
That some of the students are having better parties than the rest of us and are sometimes slightly noisy is probably fair, but the rest of this is just a cynical attempt to try to turn the local community against a minority for political gain. Saj Malik, Hussain Manzoor, and everyone in the Oxford Labour Party should be ashamed of themselves.
Update (28th May)
Today I got another leaflet from Saj Malik and Hussain Manzoor, and it contained their phone numbers, so I thought I'd give Mr Malik a chance to explain himself. Apparently, the quote above isn't accusing the students of anything. When I pointed out that it quite obviously is, and he said I would have to draw my own conclusions. I have, and so should you.
"Its[sic] a disgrace how common vandalism to car wing mirrors and wipers is. We will work with Brookes to ensure that the university has its porters out on the streets to prevent this happening..."
There is substantially more of this offensive nonsense. This leaflet tries to blame students from Brookes University for all the local crime. I would be interested to see what evidence these idiots have that students are responsible for vandalism to car wing mirrors. It feels like the students are getting the blame for all the litter in the area as well.
That some of the students are having better parties than the rest of us and are sometimes slightly noisy is probably fair, but the rest of this is just a cynical attempt to try to turn the local community against a minority for political gain. Saj Malik, Hussain Manzoor, and everyone in the Oxford Labour Party should be ashamed of themselves.
Update (28th May)
Today I got another leaflet from Saj Malik and Hussain Manzoor, and it contained their phone numbers, so I thought I'd give Mr Malik a chance to explain himself. Apparently, the quote above isn't accusing the students of anything. When I pointed out that it quite obviously is, and he said I would have to draw my own conclusions. I have, and so should you.
