Ben Dave Brown Salter is not alone. He typifies an ugly minority in the UK who turn on others for reasons a very experienced psychiatrist would need to explore. His comments on the Dorset Echo page are what happens when people look into the abyss and then jump.
I make no apologies for identifying him. His comments alone are reason enough to expose him to the wider public.
However, an attempt to emotionally step back from this rancid behaviour, although challenging, is required. Thus, my response to Ben Dave Brown Salter and everyone like him is this.
Ben Dave Brown Salter, what you wrote is not blunt honesty, nor is it some brave act of “saying what others think.” It is racism, plain and simple, and it deserves to be called out as such.
To describe human beings as “3rd world pieces of shit” is a disgraceful thing to say. It is language soaked in contempt and hatred, language designed to strip people of their dignity and reduce them to something less than human. Behind those words are real people, families, children, workers, neighbours, people with lives, hopes, and struggles no different in worth from anyone else’s. The fact that you can dismiss them in such vile terms says everything about the ugliness of your mindset.
What is so maddening about this kind of thinking is that it replaces thought with bile. It reveals your time at the Wey Valley School as utterly wasted. Instead of having the skill set to ask why there is a housing crisis, why communities feel pressure, or why public services are stretched, you reach for the easiest and most poisonous answer: blame the outsider. It is a tired, cowardly reflex that turns frustration into hate. The real causes of these problems lie in years of political failure, poor planning, and chronic underinvestment, yet people like you would rather spit venom at vulnerable groups than confront the truth.
There is also a moral sickness in speaking this way so casually. Racism like this does not stay online as “just words.” It feeds hostility in the real world. It gives others permission to think and speak the same way. It makes people from minority backgrounds feel threatened and unwelcome in their own communities. Words such as yours contribute to a culture of fear and division and that is something every decent person should be furious about.
So this is a direct response to you, Ben: this kind of language is foul, ignorant, and indefensible. It is not strength. It is not patriotism. It is not a concern for your community. It is naked prejudice masquerading as opinion.
A decent society should reject this kind of rancid thinking outright. If there is anger here, it is because words like yours drag public discourse into the gutter and poison the possibility of honest debate. You should be ashamed of having written them. And so should your family.
