The Belfast riots are a symptom of a dysfunctional immigration system that the media ignores
ANDREW DEVINE
In the aftermath of this month’s attempted beheading in Belfast in which the Sudanese migrant Hadi Alodid has been charged, the media’s focus predictably turned to the social unrest and rioting that followed the attack. The dominant angle being promulgated by the “progressive” dominated media class was how the riots following the attempted decapitation revealed the latent racism in working class areas of Northern Ireland and particularly, but not exclusively, amongst the Protestant working class. As with every atrocity carried out by someone from a non-European background, the media’s focus is never on the racial, cultural or religious biases that motivate such attacks against civilians right across Europe.
None of our enlightened media class thought to ask whether a black African from a country plagued with Islamic supremacism who has been charged with trying to cut the head off a white man in full public view could have some racial or religiously motivated biases of his own. Instead, we had the media turn up at a purportedly anti-racist protest in Belfast on the Saturday following the attempted beheading to amplify the predictable platitudes about borders being mean and how all migrants are just a homogenous blob of loveliness that should be able to go wherever they want no questions asked. Europe appears to be the only continent on planet earth where a large cohort of the population responds to atrocities against their fellow citizens by foreign individuals who hate them by organising protests to congratulate themselves for not hating foreigners.
These self-congratulatory demonstrations of “progressive” virtue are an utterly bizarre and inappropriate response to atrocities committed against your own people. Manchester City Council’s response to the mass slaughter of the city’s teenagers at a pop concert in 2017 involved a public poetry reading that made no reference to the children murdered by the Libyan Islamic terrorist Salman Abedi. Instead, Mancunians were told to “choose love” by the well intentioned but hopelessly naive poet Tony Walsh. The appropriate emotional response to your children being deliberately blown to pieces shouldn’t involve sentimental poetry readings that are trying to manipulate you to bury your righteous anger. It is a grotesque affront to human dignity to ask people to deny their own self preservation instinct by debasing themselves in such a manner.
As that other Irish-British wordsmith from Manchester, Morrissey, sang in response to the atrocity:
And the silly people sing “Don’t look back in anger.”
And the morons sing and sway “Don’t look back in anger”
I can assure you I will look back in anger ‘till the day I die.
Well, in the nine years since the slaughter at Manchester Arena, our elites have continued to “choose love” by leaving our borders wide open which has continued to allow some people who prefer to “choose hate” to come here and attack us. The Belfast based writer and podcaster Jenny Holland quite aptly and wittily remarked in last week’s episode of her highly recommended podcast that instead of an anti-racist demonstration perhaps an anti-beheading rally would be the more fitting response to an attempted public beheading. We live in such demented times that coming out publicly as beheadophobic is probably a cancellable offence in much of the public sector and creative industries that are dominated by open borders fanatics.
Whether it be the Southport Massacre, the knife attack on children in Dublin’s Parnell Square by an Algerian shouting about the “fucking Irish” or the stabbing to death of the Conservative MP David Amess, the liberal-left dominated media will never focus on the fact that all migrant related atrocities are the direct negative consequence of their biases in favour of an excessively open asylum system and mass immigration more broadly. It’s worth mentioning that those aforementioned examples are just a tiny sample of the atrocities that have occurred as a result of our asylum and immigration policies. Sure, the rioting that took place in the aftermath of the attempted beheading shouldn’t be condoned and nor can any incidents or rhetoric that involves abusing or attacking people simply because they are non-white. Genuine racism is always morally reprehensible. Viewing all ethnic minorities as a threat, many of whom are well integrated citizens born and raised on our islands, is as ignorant and close minded as naive leftists who refuse to acknowledge that mass immigration from the non-western world brings with it particular security threats and certain cohorts of people who are incompatible with western cultural norms and unwilling to adapt to them.
Our morally righteous media class has shown zero curiosity as to whether the rioting and unrest in Belfast could even be partially motivated by legitimate grievances. Surely, an immigration and asylum system that allows beheading enthusiasts, gang rapists and homicidal jihadists to move to our islands with ease should be considered a legitimate grievance worth discussing. It’s not mutually exclusive to oppose rioting and racist thuggery while also wanting to reform a broken immigration system that is tearing asunder the social fabric of our islands. Contrast the UK and Irish media’s response to the recent Belfast riots with how they amplified and sought to understand the grievances of left wing inspired “mostly peaceful” rioters in America who attacked the police and burned areas of American cities that included minority owned businesses to the ground after the death of George Floyd in 2020. The British and Irish “progressive” establishment show no such generosity of spirit or willingness to understand the grievances or justified anger of their own people in the aftermath of any of the ever increasing number of atrocities being committed against us by dangerous individuals that our elites brought to our shores. Working class led protests against migrant crime and mass immigration in the UK and Ireland, even when peaceful, are collectively smeared as “far right”. Their grievances, even when shared by second and third generation ethnic minority citizens, are too often haughtily dismissed as racist. The more nunanced perspective held by a large swathe of the British and Irish population who support a degree of immigration and are appalled by racism but also want an end to mass immigration is rarely given a fair hearing. Instead, the media too regularly project their own “progressive” biases into their reporting and commentary on immigration.
According to our enlightened political, cultural and media elites, anyone pointing out any negative consequences of their favoured mass immigration policies is guilty of “sowing division”. They’d prefer for us to pretend that public beheadings, frenzied knife attacks, car rammings, train bombings, grooming gangs and kids being blown up at concerts are just everyday occurrences that have nothing to do with de facto open borders. In fact, they even deny that we have open borders despite that being a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights means we have no legal right to limit the amount of non-European economic migrants turning up on our shores pretending to be asylum seekers. A responsible and diligent media class that holds truth to power, as the old saying goes, would be holding our political class and the “progressive” deep state accountable for immigration policies that are inimical to the security and well being of their own citizens.
This article (The Belfast riots are a symptom of a dysfunctional immigration system that the media ignores) was created and published by Andrew Devine and is republished here under “Fair Use”
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The great disconnect
Fiction isn’t reality.
SPIFF
Over the last few weeks Britain has been grappling with an incident in Belfast that illustrates how life has declined here.
A man was savagely attacked by an illegal immigrant and sustained serious injuries, including losing an eye. He was almost beheaded until a passerby intervened and the police were called.
Word soon spread. The local response was swift. Migrant centres and housing used to process illegal immigrants were targeted. No one was hurt, but many properties were burned. Immigrants were chased from the area.
Clashes with the police were inevitable. Ulster has a long history of unrest.
The traditional media have been forced to cover the event. It was too blatant to ignore, the preferred method.
Their message was predictable. Racist thugs causing unrest and mayhem.
The media focused on the destruction, the implied violence and the energy. Much of the reporting was stripped of context with minimal mention of the assault that triggered it.
This is standard operating procedure now. Virtually everything is narrative management. It usually works well. But only if real life can be ignored.
Selling a narrative
The headlines produced by traditional media are a key source of information about events for the educated classes. Their views of the world are shaped by this and reinforced by repeated exposure.
One of the headlines referred to the unrest in Belfast as racist riots, not race riots. A typical manipulation.
There is a lot in that term, and it encourages the notion we can safely look away from the detail since these people are thugs. No one need consider whether they have a point to make about immigration policy or intolerable conditions caused by misplaced compassion.
That is how propaganda works. It reassures the believers. It confirms they are on the right side of history even while the world burns. It is designed to comfort.
Most of the West is run in this way. Narratives shape public opinion to support the interests of the ruling class. They reinforce righthink and identify the out-group, those who cannot grasp the grand belief systems governing society.
The implied assumption is a lack of sophistication. Some among us miss the bigger picture. That is why we throw tantrums and burn police cars.
Much of this is aimed at the non-governing elites, the educated middle classes who run most organizations. They are the group most likely to seek out a mental framework with which to understand the world.
Propaganda is powerful but it doesn’t work when the narrative becomes disconnected from reality.
Fiction isn’t real life
The Belfast racist thuggery narrative was compelling stuff. Masked youths burning cars and clashing with police. Scared immigrants and cinematic visuals completed the picture. Nice middle class people are appalled at social unrest. They instinctively fear it.
It is easy then to accept the spin. Our biggest threat is the “far right” not the illegal immigrant who might behead you in the street.
In among the dramatic visuals and fear it is an easy sell. It must be tempting to rely on this to promote your ideas and shape public opinion.
But the real reasons for the burned-out cars still exist. The distrust of the police and the criminal justice system remain undiscussed.
The insanity of shipping in hostile immigrants to very poor neighbourhoods is not considered except to condemn the locals who must live with the consequences.
More broadly, the visible failure of multiculturalism cannot be admitted by anyone in power. So the fictions continue and the backlash is blamed on mobs, on thugs, on the uneducated
That used to work. But reality is still there underneath the fabricated stories.
And these days it is not hard to find since the establishment no longer control the flow of information as they once did.
Many videos are circulating of interviews with people in Belfast who paint a bleak picture of life at the receiving end of unwanted diversity. They explain the sexual assaults against young girls, the random violence and the fear normal people have for their safety.
None of this context is presented as it paints too accurate a picture of intolerable conditions anyone would object to. It contradicts their favoured narratives. Diversity, after all, is our strength.
Real life exists outside the managed narratives
Reality always asserts itself and it will be a surprise to those who can currently ignore it. This is not just immigration and its effects, it is climate policy, monetary policy, security policy and all the rest.
The ruling class sell their ambitions with stories and hope the effects are not felt by the decision makers until late in the day. A short-term strategy if ever there was one.
It can work for a while. It can even garner support from the impressionable. People embrace anti-racism and feel great condemning racist thugs.
They trash climate deniers as scientific illiterates. Anti-gay and anti-trans campaigners can be dismissed as homophobic bigots.
This cultivated smugness works. It feeds many delusions. It reinforces biases and strengthens the forcefield keeping the bubble inflated.
Importantly, scrutiny can be avoided. Ideal for ruinous policies that don’t work.
But an establishment that cannot attend to reality is overtaken by it. And that is increasingly what is happening. Britain’s powerful rely on narrative management. Most of their resources are spent on manipulating perception not solving actual problems.
The soothing myths to reassure the chattering classes have become a dependency. Like a stiff drink to calm the nerves, fine in limited doses, but not as a foundation for anything except misery in the long run.
Their reliance on fiction has created a fantasy world that until recently could be indulged by those wealthy enough to live away from the reality of their decisions.
This in turn has led to a litany of atrocious ideas that only exist in the West yet none of them are working. Most are crumbling into dust. In many cases they are incubating very serious decline that has become visible even to the cheerleaders.
Diversity destroys a nation and the bonds that hold it together.
Novel ideas about energy production harms industry and eventually kills people in cooler nations.
Globalism erases cultures, turning everywhere into an unsafe nowhereland like a violence-prone shopping mall you cannot leave.
We are here and our ruling class have no idea why it is not working.
Many believed the manufactured narratives because it made them feel good. Focus-grouped stories fit well with people’s biases. They go down easily because they avoid the complexities inherent in real life.
The entire immigration narrative is reduced to “inclusion” and a rejection of racism without examining the destructive consequences. All criticism is dismissed as hate.
But that is not how life works. No narrative can overturn reality. Simplistic models do not reflect complex real-life situations and never have. They are worthless for planning or managing countries.
It doesn’t even work in provinces. The predicament of people in Northern Ireland is the same as the rest of the West. We are becoming minorities in our own homeland, something we are hardwired to resist. Some just see it sooner, but the nice middle classes will feel it eventually as the world closes in on them.
The response is ever more fiction to placate those who are beginning to panic, to reassure them the people trying to protect their communities from foreign violent men are criminals.
Their narratives are disconnected from reality, so they increasingly look like fiction. And fiction won’t save the ruling class or their minions when reality comes for them.
Belfast’s grim fate is going to be everyone’s future. Burning police cars, race riots, destruction and foreign men committing random acts of barbarity. No one voted for this.
The world created by the storytellers has run its course. Belfast is just chapter one in what comes next for Britain and ultimately the rest of the West.
Featured image: The Telegraph
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