Thursday, 23 April 2009

Northwest BNP Candidate reveals true colours!

Nick Griffin, the leader of the BNP who is standing for the European Parliament in the Northwest this June, is challenged over his parties Language and Concepts Discipline Manual in todays Guardian.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/apr/23/bnp-nick-griffin-race

If you think you might of heard something similar before, I will remind you of George Orwell's 1984:

Doublethink

The keyword here is blackwhite. Like so many Newspeak words, this word has two mutually contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it means the habit of impudently claiming that black is white, in contradiction of the plain facts. Applied to a Party member, it means a loyal willingness to say that black is white when Party discipline demands this. But it means also the ability to believe that black is white, and more, to know that black is white, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary. This demands a continuous alteration of the past, made possible by the system of thought which really embraces all the rest, and which is known in Newspeak as doublethink. Doublethink is basically the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

– Part II, chapter IX - chapter I of Goldstein's book