During a bit of a political weekend, there was one moment when, and it sounds cliché I admit, but time kind of stood still.
It was on Saturday afternoon and I was in the centre of Bristol at a Hope not Hate rally. An organisation set up to campaign against the BNP, trying to mobilise voters for the EU elections (not the most exciting I grant you), to keep fascism out of mainstream politics. The moment came when I read a quote from London BNP candidate Nick Eriksen, it is as follows:
"Rape is simply sex. Women enjoy sex, so rape cannot be such a terrible physical ordeal. To suggest that rape, when conducted without violence, is a serious crime is like suggesting that force feeding a woman chocolate cake is a heinous offence. A woman would be more inconvenienced by having her handbag snatched."
I think I'll leave it there. Suffice to say, that they may not be the most exciting elections in the world, but the price of apathy is incomprehensible.
June 4th - don't let that be the day this country was tarred, with this most dispicable brush, forever.
4 comments:
I think this blog http://tinyurl.com/5emnkd on FinallyFeminism101 lays this one to rest.
This quote is bad even by the BNP's disgusting standards.
I like FF101's practice of "disemvowelling" moderated comments by the way
that's a difficult read but I suppose gets to the crux of what this vile creature so visciously misses.
I think most of what the BNP spout, publicly anyway, is fuelled by fear. Either promoting fear, to further their poisoinous message, or capitalising upon existing fears which exist within some vulnerable parts of society. Their usual messages and fear tactics are vile.
There is no fear promoted here though, I just thought this was sickening. The reason I didn't comment afterwards was that there are no words really, are there?
No - I thought several times about posting a comment at all after it - it was like planting footsteps in snow.
Heckmondwike where I come from has, I believe, 2 BNP councillors. It makes me feel ashamed to be a Yorkshireman.
the reality of the threat, considering the move away from both main parties shown in polls in tomorrow's papers, is even more considerable now.
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