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[dholliday]

conclusion: let's not make sweeping statements about people's skin colour!

@Charlie Sweet
@ilikecheese

 

[ilikecheese]

And then, lest we forget, once someone writes "that's a bit racist", he gets a reply which looks like this:


Which arguably is also a racist comment, as there's negative implication of people behaving wrongly due to the colour of their skin.

The merry-go-round thus goes round and round.

Understanding this brings one a step forward to understanding, and healing, divisions. I think we in Europe are a little wiser to this, despite what the media (social & otherwise) might portray.

You changed my words into another false equivalency.

 

[roydo]

Can you two take your tedious exchange to a new thread please. Or PM.

Ta.

 

[Jib in lad]

 

[Number_25]

Reidy knows his stuff.

 

[DanEFC92]

 

[Number_25]

Not a huge fan of Kate Hoey.

 

[Carl O'Ancelotti]

Hoey sitting next to Farage in that pic shows where her allegiances really lie.

 

[peteblue]

Of course you do Pete. His response avoided the actual point being made, which you are famous on here for doing.

No mate, he addressed your post, quite well I thought, so no need to have a go at me, and avoid his post......

 

[Charlie Sweet]

The acid test is swapping the words to see if it sounds racist or not. Let's say someone posts the below picture in a debate about social issues:

Then someone writes: Black. Loud. Unemployed and generally angry at the world.

To be classed as "a bit racist", there needs to be a negative focus on the skin colour within the comment. The negative focus is implied in the general negativity of the sentiment: i.e. all young black people are unemployed & unnecessarily angry with the world.

@Charlie Sweet's implication was that all old white people are unfit & unnecessarily angry with the world. We'd have to ask him why he felt the need to make that comment. His subsequent defence of it wasn't very convincing, for the two negative words of "unfit" & "angry" damned the comment as hateful rather than observant (because there is no proof these people are "unfit" or "angry"), just as in the above example "unemployed" & "angry" would damn it as hateful.

I was making an observation. The audience at the Leave rally appeared to be universally white and over the age of 55.

Given a central accusation against the Leave mob is that they are all fundamentally dreaming back to a mythical 1950s England that never actually existed - and could never exist today - then their skin colour and age is very relevant.

I merely added in for good measure they all also looked unfit and angry!

 

[dholliday]

I was making an observation. The audience at the Leave rally appeared to be universally white and over the age of 55.

Given a central accusation against the Leave mob is that they are all fundamentally dreaming back to a mythical 1950s England that never actually existed - and could never exist today - then their skin colour and age is very relevant.

I merely added in for good measure they all also looked unfit and angry!

Skin colour isn't relevant unless you make it so. It's regressive identity politics but I bet you think of yourself as a progressive...nice one shoving people you don't know in negative racial boxes.

Don't judge people by the colour of their skin! i can't believe this still needs saying in 2018.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Hoey sitting next to Farage in that pic shows where her allegiances really lie.

Who is the old guy in the BUPA gown in the front row?

 

[Carl O'Ancelotti]

Who is the old guy in the BUPA gown in the front row?

Can't quite make him out but it looks suspiciously like @Joey66

 

[Joey66]

Can't quite make him out but it looks suspiciously like @Joey66

NHS is all I can afford just got out so it's not melol

 

[summerisle]