Racism Explained
Oct 23rd 2012, 4:34 pm
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Oct 23rd 2012, 4:38 pm
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Oct 23rd 2012, 4:52 pm
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Re: Racism Explained
(Seen recently) What about a working class white Brit factory worker with a heavily pregnant Thai girl who requires a translator at the wedding to ensure she understands her vows. Who upon uttering them is unable to pronounce the sounds necessary to speak the words clearly enough to be identifiable?
Can only call that the 'Language of Lurv'
Can only call that the 'Language of Lurv'
Oct 23rd 2012, 4:58 pm
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[ 'Language of Lurv'
Oct 23rd 2012, 6:49 pm
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Re: Racism Explained
Of course we are darling!! 
how stupid is that..you can't be accused of racism if you insult somebody for having ginger hair!!!
I can't bring this up as a video but it is funny and true.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xl2...watch-this_fun
how stupid is that..you can't be accused of racism if you insult somebody for having ginger hair!!!I can't bring this up as a video but it is funny and true.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xl2...watch-this_fun
Oct 23rd 2012, 6:53 pm
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Of course we are darling!! how stupid is that..you can't be accused of racism if you insult somebody for having ginger hair!!!
I can't bring this up as a video but it is funny and true.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xl2...watch-this_fun
how stupid is that..you can't be accused of racism if you insult somebody for having ginger hair!!!I can't bring this up as a video but it is funny and true.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xl2...watch-this_fun
My response was "Arseholes,Eff off!"
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Oct 23rd 2012, 7:45 pm
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Re: Racism Explained
I am too busy hating everyone equally to single out a particular race.
Oh, gingers aren't a race, they can dye their hair.
Oh, gingers aren't a race, they can dye their hair.
Oct 23rd 2012, 8:12 pm
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Oct 23rd 2012, 8:14 pm
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Re: Racism Explained
The Sunday Herald did a piece on "gingerism" sadly removed from their website, looking into the Human Rights and Equalities Commissions viewpoints on it:
So, if being Ginger is the result of a gene, then the difference between whites and blacks being genes must draw it closer together where taking offense in the courts is concerned surely?
In England, those with freckles were the subject of abuse in centuries past. (Notwithstanding people with ginger hair normally have freckles too) and it was a lot harder to hide freckles across the body than merely dye your hair.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission - formerly the Commission for Racial Equality - does not monitor discrimination against redheads and has nothing to say on "gingerism". In any discussion of how the phenomenon compares to racism, it will be pointed out firstly that red hair comes from mutations of a particular gene, the melanocortin 1 receptor, and isn't necessarily directly inherited from parents; and secondly that redheads have not suffered centuries of systematic abuse. Yet if we accept that black people can be racist towards whites, or that whites of one nation can be accused of being racist towards whites of another, then definitions of racism become less watertight.
In England, those with freckles were the subject of abuse in centuries past. (Notwithstanding people with ginger hair normally have freckles too) and it was a lot harder to hide freckles across the body than merely dye your hair.
Oct 24th 2012, 3:38 am
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Mentalist: I didn't post this to cause offence, nor with the hope, expectation or intention that it would degenerate into insults. It was to stimulate debate. You and your family took offence--I apologise for that, for none was intended.
I hate it when people say, "I'm sorry, but..." and then go on to qualify the apology to the extent that it is no longer an apology. So I won't do that. Genuinely, sorry if I caused you offence.
I hate it when people say, "I'm sorry, but..." and then go on to qualify the apology to the extent that it is no longer an apology. So I won't do that. Genuinely, sorry if I caused you offence.
People will be upset whatever the situation. If you had to apologise to everyone you might have upset yesterday you'd never get any work done.
