Saturday, August 8, 2009

A circular argument



Norther Ireland's Finance Minister, Democratic Unionist MP, Sammy Wilson, is a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/aug/06/northern-ireland-racism-row-funding" target="_blank"in hot water again/a. He was previously criticised when, as environment minister, he denied that humans were responsible for global warming.br /br /Mr. Wilson has accused anti-racism groups of exaggerating the scale of the racism to gain public funding. He claimed there was an "anti-racism industry". In return he has been accused by the Northern Ireland Council for Ethnic Minorities of playing into the hands of racists.br /br /Irrespective of the merits of each side of the case I do detect a bit of a circular argument in these exchanges.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8266684-2611200600675503669?l=peterblack.blogspot.com'//div

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