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The Chinese community is usually overlooked by mainstream media, but a recent article featured Dimsum.co.uk in a list of prominent minority websites.
In their article 'Is the BNP racist?' the BNP news team advocate support for the supporting the rights of the poor ‘indigenous british population’. Within this line of thinking, they revoke allegations of racism suggesting that if they are deemed as racist, then other organisations that support other minority communities are also racist.
Of the list of 'racist' sites, the Chinese community were represented by Dimsum.co.uk, together with Chinatown-online.co.uk and Doncaster Chinese. We were all accused of being 'racist' as we 'too address themselves exclusively to the issues and concerns of their respective communities'.
In a somewhat biased piece of journalism, BNP's newsteam failed to notice that our management and contributor teams comprise a large number of people of South East Asian decent - BBC, ABC, CBC, HKBC, Vietnamese and first generation Chinese, as well as from French, British, American, American, New Zealand descent.
Additionally themes we cover such as identity (Southern Africa, A, B or C? ), mixed race relationships (True Love: East Meets West, Does it bother you that I'm Chinese? ), and issues concerning identity such as Dual identity, My Duality, directly conflict with the stance towards racism that is seen in the BNP.
For those unfamiliar with the BNP or the British National Party, they are the far right political party who are in their 2005 election manifesto advocated "firm but voluntary incentives for immigrants and their descendants to return home." They have close links with neo-Nazi, terrorist and paramilitary groups such as Combat 18, and various fascist groups across Europe.
Amongst their beliefs, their Chair Nick Griffin denies the holocaust and gas chambers of World War Two. Women are seen as 'nurturer of children' and encouraged to stay at home, whilst men are seen as protectors and providers. In addition, homosexuality is outlawed and civil partnerships were opposed beacuse of this. Most recently they have taken a stronganti Islamic stance, which was reflected in their list 'racist' minority sites.
Our journalist Simon Crab, both a member of the 'indigenous British population' and a core member of Dimsum, questioned their view on the 'indigenous British population' as the British Isles has been home to a great number of immigrants, including the Vikings, Normans and Romans over the centuries.
Posts to confirm that minorities have been in the UK for hundreds of years together with evidence that soldiers from black, Asian and South East Asian countries also served in the war, were deleted and he has now been banned from the site. Ironically the BNP's newspaper is called the 'Voice of Freedom'. |
