A Biased BBC reader writes…
“I can’t stand “foreigner bashing” – it’s intellectually and morally lazy, weak and bitter. However, I also can’t stand the current glut of “foreigner bashing the racist Brits” narrative that is spewing from the BBC.
We know the Beeb’s post-Brexit bashing of us bigoted Brits is relentless (they written almost 100 stories on the “rise in post-Brexit hate crime”), including last week’s smear of the British people on Question Time.
This time, the Victoria Derbyshire Show has peddled the fearmongering. “The Poles looking to leave the UK after Brexit,” the headline shrieks. “Incidents of hate crime aimed at the UK’s Polish community increased after the summer’s EU referendum and as a result, some Poles are considering leaving the country.”
We hear of Joanna Kalinowska. She lives in Poole and explains:
“I was talking to my daughter [in Polish], we were joking and laughing. A man passed and said ‘if you are in England you have to talk in English… otherwise you go back to your country’,”.
“I said to that guy, ‘I am talking with my child, so I will talk to my child in my language. And this is also my country, and I have equal rights here’.”
The man, she says, answered in reply: “You don’t have any rights here any more.”
“That was my experience after Brexit,” she says.
…”[Polish people] were prepared to come here, work hard and be normal members of society,” she says. “We are very easy to integrate and we are very pleased to integrate with Brits. But Brits don’t want to integrate with us.”
So the most hideous and horrific example of hate crime is a person allegedly suggesting she should speak English? Even then, she rebuts that by saying she should not have to (I love her “my language” line) and then, despite saying she doesn’t have to speak English to a British person, has the audacity to say it is the British people that don’t integrate. How does that work? I move to your country, don’t speak your language but you are not integrated with me?
Then we have Magda. Bizarrely, Magda does not even claim to have experienced hate crime but instead regurgitates media reports/propaganda. Apparently, that is proof enough though:
“There are so many different nations and skin colours [in the UK] and I’ve never read so many bad stories about them as about Poles. It’s impossible that we Poles are so bad and everybody else is awesome and great. We all are people and you can’t put all the blame on one nation.”
She wheels out the victim narrative even though she is not even a victim. Neither she or the BBC provide a single example of anyone putting “all the blame on one nation” and Poland was never the rationale of the Brexit argument. It is persecution complex of the highest order.
Then there is Pawel, who spent two years in the UK as a cleaner in a hotel (nothing wrong with that job but hardly one you can retire on after just two years) before heading home.
“People were teasing Polish workers… saying they took English people’s jobs. But everyone knew that the English people wouldn’t do the jobs that the Polish people were doing. So in fact no-one was stealing the jobs.
Teasing?! Teasing!! With jokes that people knew were not true?
So, to conclude, the BBC says there is a surge in hate crime purging innocent, morally superior Poles from the UK and back to Poland. And the examples they provide are:
1. A woman who was told she should speak English.
2. A woman who has read some newspaper stories about hate crime.
3. A man who was teased by self-depricating co-worker.
Strange the BBC doesn’t compare the situation in this vile hellhole of racism that we call the UK with that beautiful, pluralist utopia that is Poland and it’s mere two per cent non-Polish citizenry and unblemished history of loving all foreigners.”
