<Deleted User> (9670)
Racism
At heart I am left wing but because I think global capitalism and mass immigration are insane and unjust to people born in Britain I am classed as a racist and right winger.
So is poetry a medium through which I could express my reservations about the BBC and politics and the adoration of asylum seeking people who compete for my children`s scarce resources?
All I ever hear is poets droning on about the right of the entire third world to fetch up next door to me and how awful I am for wondering where this will end!
Poetry Please? Not mine,I suspect!
So is poetry a medium through which I could express my reservations about the BBC and politics and the adoration of asylum seeking people who compete for my children`s scarce resources?
All I ever hear is poets droning on about the right of the entire third world to fetch up next door to me and how awful I am for wondering where this will end!
Poetry Please? Not mine,I suspect!
Thu, 1 Sep 2011 11:38 am
Jim, I don't think this issue is Racism. And, yes, you need to be very careful in what you write. The global population is being homogenized, in a world flux that will not now ever be turned backwards on itself. The issues we all are dealing with throughout the world are new ones for mankind, and we have to learn new ways of coping with World Society. Old ways of thinking have to bend, particularly Protectionism (almost in our genes, that one.) And it's individually tough - really tough. A single person feels completely helpless, and very angry at having no personal control, a father who has no 'say' in how to care for his family which is still considered the backbone of society. We live in turbulent times of re-adjusting humanity's whole outlook on life.
I think this is well within the field of poetry, providing you are clear in your own mind what you are advocating, and that it doesn't cross into rants against Cultural Groups which is not PC. The Government seems to be open game for all verbal weapons. Political Poetry is still widespread, but needs a high degree of rational ideas behind it, to be effective. It has always been so.
I found your post to be very brave, and honest, exactly the criteria for poetry.
I think this is well within the field of poetry, providing you are clear in your own mind what you are advocating, and that it doesn't cross into rants against Cultural Groups which is not PC. The Government seems to be open game for all verbal weapons. Political Poetry is still widespread, but needs a high degree of rational ideas behind it, to be effective. It has always been so.
I found your post to be very brave, and honest, exactly the criteria for poetry.
Sat, 3 Sep 2011 12:25 pm
Jim, I would say the drama in your position could well be explored in poetry, but the idea that you are losing out through migration slightly misses the wider context.
The motivation for most migration is financial, whether that is in search of the new world in the US, cheap property on the Costas, or for a higher standard of living to the UK from somewhere else.
The wealth of this country was built on exploitation, both of the working classes here and in other parts of the world. Surely if you can see this, you would be more angry about the system that continues to increase the disparity between the rich and poor, rather than worrying about where the poor were born?
The motivation for most migration is financial, whether that is in search of the new world in the US, cheap property on the Costas, or for a higher standard of living to the UK from somewhere else.
The wealth of this country was built on exploitation, both of the working classes here and in other parts of the world. Surely if you can see this, you would be more angry about the system that continues to increase the disparity between the rich and poor, rather than worrying about where the poor were born?
Sat, 3 Sep 2011 11:16 pm