Is it right to consider the British National Party and its charismaric leader Nick Griffin as "xenophobics"?

I麓m sure you know well the difference between the term "xenophobic" and the term "racist." For example, a political party can be xenophobic, but not racist, if it refuses to accept any type of immigrants, including whites. Meanwhile, a political party can be racist, but not xenophobic, if it accepts the white immigrants but rejects the native blacks and asiatics who were born and live legally in the country.|||Yes, it is right to call it xenophobic. Blaming immigration for economics is wilfully simplistic. When immigration appears to have a negative economic effect, that exposes the exploitative, punitive and oppressive nature of the economic policies and proves nothing about immigrants. Groups like BNP would make excuses for the policies and scapegoat based on visual criteria that requires no intelligence or knowledge to understand. Is that not textbook xenophobia?|||No, xenophobes hate and fear foreigners. Racists generally hate people of a different race.





You can want your country to be predominantly occupied by your own people, and believe too many foreigners and people of a different race (and culture) is damaging your society and culture without fearing or hating them.





I, like the vast majority of English people, believe just that. I hate what mass immigration has done to our society. But I neither hate nor fear foreigners.





I am proud to be an Englishman and I think (for example) Indians should be proud to be Indians and proud of their ancient culture. I respect them and their culture. That does NOT mean I want millions of Indian people living in England.





It's typical of today's PC world that wanting our country to remain English can attract such a nonsensical label as racist or xenophobic. No wonder the BNP is attracting so much support.|||Griff is our boy and he is fighting for us, racist no, realist most defiantly, don't confuse xenophobia with concern you don't need t be a racist to be concerned.





Hey I'll tel you what don't hide behind your question now you have made it clear where you stand come out and debate it. You can start by telling us about those ordinary white indigenous people who are concerned at the number of immigrants already here and still streaming in. Are they all racists? come on we want to know.





ATB Red|||No. Griffin is an old-fashioned white supremacist racist, and has been for 30 years.





http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EhJQ-WwbN6Q/Si鈥?/a>|||No because xenophobia is the fear of foreigners and Nick Griffin isnt scared of foreigners he just doesnt like them.|||How is racism not xenophobia?





Racism is just a form of xenophobia.|||they r xenophobic and racist. Nick Griffin is not charismatic though.|||Nic griffin is a nationalist and a realist|||I would be comfortable calling the BNP both.|||Charismatic leader?......What a laugh!...And yes.....they are xenophobic.|||I would have thought "fascist" was more like it...|||They want Britain to be British I do not see whats wrong with that.





Besides as an American it is not my concern.|||you enjoy being 1/6 of your own country huh|||If Nick Griffin is charismatic,


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