alexa
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I'd just say that Multiculturalism was introduced at the time of large-scale political correctness, one a product of the other and failures in themselves. Both were supposed to fix what wasn't broken, to socially engineer Britain to become something it wasn't supposed to be and to alter the thought patterns of people with unfashionable views.
Every time people are called institutionally racist, every time the public despair at seeing another herd of criminals get ever-softer prison treatment due to their 'rights', every time weirdos and degenerates are allowed to erode moral standards in the country, every time authorities fear riots if this or that 'community' isn't bowed to, every time there is indeed that riot, every time 'diversity training' has to be foisted, every time a 'community cohesion' minster is installed, every time we have to be told that other people need to have their religious holidays or 'needs' pandered to, every time a minority group sets up its own political party or range of pressure groups and societies, every time one set of people (whites) are blamed for ethnic failures at whatever level, etc, we know Multiculturalism has failed.
After all, under MultiCulti, everybody's supposed to be perpetually holding hands, then singing Lennon songs and clapping in their rainbow braces, never poor and always joyful at the constant sunshine.
Multicultural to me simply meant accepting that there are people of different cultures living in the UK. It was brought in at a time when the people of this country were themselves throwing away the repression with which they had been brought up.
I see two sides to the PC stuff. One was people hired to make a living out of it and at times not being able to find enough just making up ridiculous items – for instance that it is racist to call a black board a black board and that did happen...and secondly that people were unable to understand the basic premise of this or possibly that their own feelings were so ingrained with prejudice. They did what they had to but privately they held on to their prejudice. Because of this they were unable to come to proper conclusions as to the correct way to act. Take the issue of forced marriages. This is not acceptable in this country and the police and laws should have been making sure women were protected....or police claiming they felt unable to arrest Muslims for rape. That is the worst of the lot and shows unfortunately just how unwell some of our people are. The problem is not PC. The problem is entrenched prejudice.