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UK: The shameful ‘Go Home’ campaign: The rhetoric on migrants shows how politicians and the media have created, and embedded, racism in British politics

22 August 2013

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"Recent controversy over the Home Office ’Go Home’ campaign on ‘illegal’ immigrants highlights the way in which politicians try to outdo each other to win over the ‘racist’ electorate in Britain – an electorate they and the media are creating. Revelations in some recent studies of the origins of the current racist political culture suggest that the media and politicians themselves have for many years actively collaborated in creating scapegoats of ‘illegal immigrants’ and ‘failed asylum seekers’. But a new anti-racist movement may be building up as a result."

See the full story: The rhetoric on migrants shows how politicians and the media have created, and embedded, racism in British politics (IRR news Service, link) by John Grayson

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