"Step outside posh boy": Violence in UK election campaign?

[quote=“fruitloop”]
What can I say? Apart from the most glaring factual error (akin to saying it was Reagan), Bosnian Muslims are broadly south European Slavs, who converted to Islam about 500 years ago. Their neighbours, the Serbs are also south slavs. Race was no more or less an issue than it would have been if we were defending the Czechs from the Slovaks.[/quote]
Race might not have been an issue to the hackneyed members of the United Nations, but it was most certainly viewed as a vital issue by many protagonists on all sides of the various conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. Even some of the so-called moderates were jumping on the extremist’s bandwagon.

How was race an issue when they were the same race (inasmuch as it’s a meaningful concept)? It could only be an issue if they were fooling themselves or cynically, their followers. Not so unlikely, perhaps.

Extreme nationalism and racism are not exactly the same, though they are both premised on prejudice, fear of the other, and distortions of the truth.