Are my views racist?

[mrdonuts]

this is a small island , already creaking with overpopulation

importing legions of uneducated whoever from wherever is not the way forward

wont help the uk now or the world in the longer term

[dang65]

Learn to read then.

EDIT: OK I didn't explicitly say that I didn't think the OP was being racist, but for the record, I don't. My rude reply to dang was uncalled for.

That's ok, it's what I come here for. :-)

[Brussels Slumdog]

The Ancestry Visa

I am specifically - and in General - happy for white South Africans to be refused entry, and those already here thrown out. As for the other shades, I don't care either way. (Unless it's Ladysmith Black Mambazo in which case I want free tickets.) Does that count?

The fact is that most white South africans entering the UK qualify for an Ancestry Visa and Black South africans don't.
The Ancestry Visa option is for citizens of commonwealth countries who have a grandparent who was born in the UK, including the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man.
Most qualified South africans migrate to Australia or Canada.

The problem is that Europe has an official immigration policy(legal) and an unofficial(illegal) immigration policy.
Without a legal immigration policy Belgian hospitals would cease to operate
due to a lack of qualified staff. Most of these are from the Congo.
Without a legal immigration policy there would be no building work Most of these are from North Africa.

It's the unofficial(illegal) immigration policy that is the problem.Most of these
people have zero skills

[The Lone Gunman]

1. does this view make me sound like a racist?
2. is stopping the influx a good or bad thing for our economy?

1. Yes. You sound like you have painted all migrants from Africa with the ill educated...... blah brush. Because of the context and topics mentioned it appears that you were refering to black Africans at that too.
If you were then that is racist.

2. Debatable. My opinion is we dont need anymore, we are full. There are occupations where migrants may be needed, if that is the case then welcome them.

[sasguru]

Well, you must have done some fairly extreme reading-between-the-lines there because, even here on the usually enthusiastically right-wing CUK, I don't see anyone seeming to conclude that you aren't being racist. You've either got people saying you are being Racist, or people enthusiastically embracing you for being a fellow Racist.

You seem very confused to me.
The OP explicitly said he wasn't racist and I'm inclined to believe him.
For the record, I'm not racist at all, but I'm totally culturalist - I believe some cultures are better than others in supporting the full development of human potential.
And by that token allowing people in who fully believe in some inferior aspects of their culture and allowing them to practice it, when it is in direct conflict with the host culture, is a retrograde step.

[SantaClaus]

As a descendent of economic migrants a few generations ago myself I am mindful of the expression 'there but for the grace of God', but after seeing George Osborne's speech last night concerning tough times ahead following on from the Panorama program this week explaining how the chain of illegal immigration is being pushed back into Africa with the connivance of Libya, I put forward my view that the last thing this country needs with 3 million and rising unemployed is to host yet more ill educated, unqualified economic migrants when we have our own home-grown talent(less) pool to consider. The kids around the breakfast table this morning all declared me to be right-wing racist and sent me to work with a flea in my ear, so what do you lot reckon?

1. does this view make me sound like a racist?
2. is stopping the influx a good or bad thing for our economy?

I would say you are a realist
It's a pity this current government arent!

[BlackenedBiker]

semi-educated

How would you class yourself SG? Are you semi, or full-fat educated?

Just wondering

[BlackenedBiker]

You seem very confused to me.
The OP explicitly said he wasn't racist and I'm inclined to believe him.
For the record, I'm not racist at all, but I'm totally culturalist - I believe some cultures are better than others in supporting the full development of human potential.
And by that token allowing people in who fully believe in some inferior aspects of their culture and allowing them to practice it, when it is in direct conflict with the host culture, is a retrograde step.

I once called my terraced house a town house but it remained to the majority of buyers a terrace.

I think that whatever you call yourself, these seem to be racist views.

I am assuming that "inferior aspects" will be decided by you and your ilk (incumbents).

I say let's have more inferiority, I say let's embrace more retrograde steps.

I say Judges of others be damned, we have been down that road too many times, in these apparently superior western cultures.

[sasguru]

I once called my terraced house a town house but it remained to the majority of buyers a terrace.

I think that whatever you call yourself, these seem to be racist views.

I am assuming that "inferior aspects" will be decided by you and your ilk (incumbents).

I say let's have more inferiority, I say let's embrace more retrograde steps.

I say Judges of others be damned, we have been down that road too many times, in these apparently superior western cultures.

1.I cannot be racist because I don't judge a person by the colour of the skin - which seems to be a common definition of racist (biology will tell you that races don't exist anyway, but that's a different story.)

2. I don't believe that western culture is necessarily superior. For example its materialism will eventually ruin the world (not that other cultures are not materialistic either.). But it doesn't include female genetic mutilation and killing of albinos because they are bad luck. Or opressing women by insisting on veils etc.

[Brussels Slumdog]

This is the problem in our PC world

Anyway, I thought only whiteys could be racist.

I'm ok coz I'm green.

These people are ALL RACISTS

Whites who hate blacks are colour racists.
Blacks who hate Whites are colour racists.
Protestants who hate Catholics are religious racists.
Muslims who hate Christians are religious racists.
Sunni Muslims who hate Shī'ah Muslim are religious racists.
Flemish Belgians who hate French Belgians are linguistic racists.
Totsis who hate Hutus are tribal racists.
A racist is someone who hates someone different which ends up war