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Subject: Official Recognition

Author:
Michael J. Smith (Canada)

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Date Posted: 15:32:56 11/11/04 Thu
In reply to: Nick (UK) 's message, "Had anyone noticed we have a professional write-up on Wikipedia?" on 10:42:38 11/11/04 Thu

I count this very positively as a good step towards official recognition. Nick, what BBC site are you referring to? Were we mentioned in a news report, or was it a link based on a related subject?

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[> Subject: if we are "breaking out" it is happening very quickly

Author:
Ian (Australia)
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Date Posted: 16:48:40 11/11/04 Thu

I would have expected it to take a little longer, given how much the central idea of FC is at odds with prevailing nationalist and/or euro-federalist trends.

"Breaking out" will be a difficult moment for the group. So far, we have been able to determine what the FC idea means, because it has been centred on these websites. Once it gets out into the public, all sorts of people may claim to share our vision when we would prefer to say that they have nothing at all to do with us. We will have to be very careful to distinguish between people who really share our core ideas but may have major differences - people we can work with - and people who have fundamentally different ideas, and from whom we must distinguish ourselves.

The main point where this will be necessary is likely to be the nonsense of "race". We must be absolutely firm on this: people who wish to argue on racist terms cannot be allowed to speak in the name of FCS. If we do not make this completely clear, if we do not have the patience to stand up every time the issue is raised and calmly explain that our proposal has NOTHING to do with race, then we will be lost, and deservedly so.

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