AS has been mentioned in your letters pages several times, the disgusting racist riots in England are too reminiscent of 1930s Nazis for comfort.
The fact they don’t wear paramilitary outfits like Oswald Mosley’s fascists doesn’t mean they’re not Nazis. They display EXACTLY the same behaviour, and have EXACTLY the same beliefs, one of these being the belief that there is such a thing as a “purity” of race.
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One thing which will help to change this is education. Ignorance and gullibility frequently go hand in hand. Hitler’s idea of “purity” was the blond-haired, blue-eyed Nordic type, but with some basic research it can easily be shown that even they are a mixture of different genetic types.
Perhaps the participants in these riots should have their DNA tested and their own genetic lineage shown to these “pure” Anglo-Saxon Englanders to let them see how much of a “mixture” we ALL are.
Barry Stewart
Blantyre
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