Sunday, 1 March 2015

Looking for someone to blame

A great posting on the BBC website. A photographer called Raphael Schutzer-Weissman posted this picture and caption:

I took this photo in response to the anti-immigrant rhetoric increasingly noticeable in the UK and Europe recently. "At first it seemed to me that Romanians were the target, but the Charlie Hebdo atrocity took things to a new level.

It became a blame game. Blame the immigrants, blame the Muslims, blame the Jews, blame somebody, for something. To my mind inclusiveness and diversity are things to be celebrated, not demonised.