Faterik, instead of continuing to search for more versions of the same inflammatory article that you can link to this thread, why don’t you just go off somewhere and – oh, I don’t know….. Perhaps read “Lord of the Flies”?
Otherwise, please provide us with a point-by-point summation of the qualities that establish it as “great”. Because I’m not getting it.
While I can agree with a few of the things this guy says, again he blames government programs that promote dependency, i.e., he’s laying responsibility for the riots entirely on the shoulders of the poor. There’s been plenty of evidence to support the fact that this was a mixed-class crowd.
And while I was momentarily impressed that this was not another journalistic gem from the Daily Mail, my euphoria lessened considerably when I reached the bottom of page 1, and there was Mr. Steyn boasting that he was able to counter a television show guest with a real-life example of atrocious misappropriation of funds by the British government. So appalled was Mr. Steyn by this shocking tale of waste that he felt compelled to include it in his latest book for concerned conservatives.
I’m willing to bet that the examples in Mr. Steyn’s books are short on reference-accompanied citations. However, even if I am mistaken, I would question its inclusion. Mr. Steyn lifted his sordid tale straight off the yellow pages of – yes! – the Daily Mail, a publication not exactly known for getting its details or facts straight. In fact, the Daily Mail regularly inserts stories that have been “edited” in order to incite, and raise the level of, anger in its readers. In many instances, it has fabricated stories to achieve this. I’d be willing to wager that the exaggerations and falsehoods in this story far outweigh any truths.
Tell me again, faterik (in fact, I don’t remember being told the first time), what these newspaper articles add to the dialogue? While I agree that we have a younger generation who appears devoid of the barest trace of social graces, I’m not sure what the excuse of the older generation is when I look at commentary left in chatrooms and message boards of all kinds, particularly those of far right “political” content (my own opinion is that politics is just another excuse for many people to express hate and bitterness). These people use articles like those regularly dispensed by the Daily Mail, and recycled by “writers” like Mr. Steyn, to “confirm” the validity of their distorted views to each other. When their parents are choosing to immerse themselves in a self-created online world of bitterness, bigotry, and hate, where are their offspring going to acquire qualities such as grace and kindness and honesty?
