Student leader's anti-Jewish abuse
The president of the National Union of Students was yesterday rescued by police from angry protesters chanting anti-Jewish abuse and demanding his resignation.
Aaron Porter was surrounded by a 150-strong mob who broke away from a student fees protest in Manchester.
As 12 officers led him to safety, there were chants of ‘Aaron Porter we know you, you’re a f******* Tory too’.
A photographer said he also heard cries of ‘Tory Jew scum’.
Mr Porter, 25, a Labour Party member, was due to speak at the rally but later cancelled.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1351853/Student-leader-faces-barrage-anti-Jewish-abuse-rally-protesters-accuse-Tory.html#ixzz1CWUnuySw
I guess some racism is still accepted in student circles. What a shame.
I doubt Porter will stay on for much longer, a career in politics will soon be his.
Aaron Porter was surrounded by a 150-strong mob who broke away from a student fees protest in Manchester.
As 12 officers led him to safety, there were chants of ‘Aaron Porter we know you, you’re a f******* Tory too’.
A photographer said he also heard cries of ‘Tory Jew scum’.
Mr Porter, 25, a Labour Party member, was due to speak at the rally but later cancelled.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1351853/Student-leader-faces-barrage-anti-Jewish-abuse-rally-protesters-accuse-Tory.html#ixzz1CWUnuySw
I guess some racism is still accepted in student circles. What a shame.
I doubt Porter will stay on for much longer, a career in politics will soon be his.
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Nice.
If someone did say it, it's wrong and should be followed up. But there's no real substance behind the story so far other than oddly enough, prejudice.
I didn't do that at all, how about we stick to the topic.
What are you on about?
Anyway, further details here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/8290571/Student-leader-Aaron-Porter-barracked-with-anti-Semitic-insults.html
Aaron Porter was escorted by officers after being confronted as he made his way to offices in Manchester. Witnesses report that among the chants directed at him from a small number of demonstrators were "
Tory Jew". Other protesters responded to the anti-semitic taunts aimed at Mr Porter by chanting: "No to racism, no to racism."
I didn't say it shouldn't be followed. But the comment itself isn't racist. Or if it is racist, then similar comments about Christians or Muslims would also be too. Religious bigotry you might describe it as.
I have no idea whether it's true or not.
Maybe you should have posted that first? Still doesn't give you grounds to label the entire student population as racist or anti-Semitic.
I did nothing of the sort so please stop misrepresenting my views.
I was shocked to see how disturbed he was and shaken up. What a way to treat an elected leader of the Students' Union. He did not deserve all the vile abuse hurled at him.
I guess some racism is still accepted in student circles.
Bit hard to misinterpret that.
And yet you seem to have managed it.
BTW shouldn't that have read I guess racism is still accepted in some student circles. as otherwise people might think that you are saying that anti-semitism is acceptable to all students.
Next - disturbing discovery about the toilet habits of Ursus arctos in forested areas.
The OP stated anti-Semitism is acceptable for students. Not some, or a specific group, but students.
It's a problem that's running through many threads at the moment, whereby, unless you add the disclaimer .............
'In no way do I mean ALL (insert group) are like this, the pedants amongst us will leap on the opportunity to claim that you do indeed mean ALL, when it's perfectly obvious (to most) that this is not the case.
Waste of time if you ask me.
The problem not everyone is so well informed such as yourself sutie.....
There are people logging onto DS for the first time, ever, there are guests, and visitors just passing by, people who have never heard of some of the stories being spoken of. They may read one of these "all X are Z" statements and agree with it simply because they see nobody questioning or assume it must be true because nobody bothered to qualify the statement. This is just one of very many reasons for us to be careful with what we post less we become lazy contributors that just keep continuing regular tit-for-tat snipes because one person likes to generalise (you may have seen that word before - you might want to consider what it means in the context of applying a "rule" to a group of people and how fair and accurate that rule is if it only applies to a subset.
As I said, because we're not all as intelligent as you are sutie, I'm afraid it is of vital important to qualify and statements we make. It's not pedantry. It's simply honest opinion and fact.
I don't understand what you mean by that.... the Johann Hari bit Do you agree or disagree with one of his articles? I've always found them to be on-the-mark.
Thank God for mobile phones, hey, so much more reliable than "eyewitness photographers"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP_MYH6I0rk&feature=player_embedded
Smear written all over it.
Even if it did happen one can't tar the majority with the same brush.
Actually, you did.
Not on the alleged racist chants, but one can certainly call them all "thick as mince"
Porter is a member of The Labour Party and touted as a future MP.
So a bit stupid to call him Tory really.
Exactly. Also he reminds me of Harry Potter
I'm sorry if I offended you jswift909,I just don't like his journalism and having researched his crendentials I see he is a journalist of some repute.Sorry.:):):)Goodnight!