Demonizing the Young Won’t Heal UK Cities
Submitted on August 14, 2011
By Laurie Penny - Znet
...[I]t is vital that we resist the easy story of "us" and "them"...The disorder will continue until we acknowledge that the young people who rampaged through Manchester, Liverpool, Brixton, Tottenham and 50 boroughs of London are as much a part of the "real Britain" as those who nobly came out the next morning to clear the debris from their trashed high streets. The language of "true Brits" defending themselves against a feral underclass is precisely the language of social division that predicated these riots.
