US-Mexico border wall
Dec 16th 2005, 1:43 am
#106
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Re: US-Mexico border wall
Originally Posted by Manc
See when I say that to a woman I get a slap.
Dec 16th 2005, 1:55 am
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Re: US-Mexico border wall
Originally Posted by Leslie66
I do not wish to appear as an Anglophile.... yet somehow, I expect better from Brits. 
But no - no one who saw the "paki-bashing" (excuse the term please) in London in the seventies could ever think that we are in some way exempt from that kind of garbage.
Dec 16th 2005, 2:02 am
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Re: US-Mexico border wall
Originally Posted by Lion in Winter
Ah, well, you've only met the best see.
But no - no one who saw the "paki-bashing" (excuse the term please) in London in the seventies could ever think that we are in some way exempt from that kind of garbage.
But no - no one who saw the "paki-bashing" (excuse the term please) in London in the seventies could ever think that we are in some way exempt from that kind of garbage.
I admit, I'm more appalled when I see a racist Brit than a racist American. That's probably something I will have to sort out within my own feeble brain.
Dec 16th 2005, 2:03 am
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Re: US-Mexico border wall
Originally Posted by Leslie66
For God's sake, that was the 70's! No country is exempt. I still believe you guys are ahead of us, despite the exceptions that prove the rule.
I admit, I'm more appalled when I see a racist Brit than a racist American. That's probably something I will have to sort out within my own feeble brain.
I admit, I'm more appalled when I see a racist Brit than a racist American. That's probably something I will have to sort out within my own feeble brain.
should dispell all myths.
Dec 16th 2005, 2:05 am
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Re: US-Mexico border wall
Originally Posted by Manc
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...e_id=1770&ct=5
Dec 16th 2005, 2:08 am
#111
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Re: US-Mexico border wall
Originally Posted by Manc
Dec 16th 2005, 2:09 am
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Re: US-Mexico border wall
Originally Posted by Leslie66
For God's sake, that was the 70's! No country is exempt. I still believe you guys are ahead of us, despite the exceptions that prove the rule.
I admit, I'm more appalled when I see a racist Brit than a racist American. That's probably something I will have to sort out within my own feeble brain.
I admit, I'm more appalled when I see a racist Brit than a racist American. That's probably something I will have to sort out within my own feeble brain.
Dec 16th 2005, 2:14 am
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Re: US-Mexico border wall
Originally Posted by Lion in Winter
Oh it still goes on everywhere, every country I've been to . You should hear some Brits on the subject of immigrants and asylum seekers. Not good.
This group is ok... but this group can't possibly come in.... because they look/smell/think/worship differently than us.
Dec 16th 2005, 2:19 am
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Re: US-Mexico border wall
Originally Posted by Leslie66
I know that's true. I've seen it here on BE. I can hang with the arguments about how excessive immigration effects the economy.... but when they get into specific racial bias... Well, let's just say it makes me very sad.
This group is ok... but this group can't possibly come in.... because they look/smell/think/worship differently than us.
This group is ok... but this group can't possibly come in.... because they look/smell/think/worship differently than us.
I have difficulty with the criminalisation of the people. I can't understand the lack of empathy that prevents people from appreciating the depths of poverty from which so many immigrants come; and I can't understand why they don't see that a parent would do anything to save their child from disease and hunger. I've know too many people in that condition. Sitting and watching your baby die because you can't buy antibiotics because your country's economy is up the creek without a paddle is not the same as waiting in a semi-detached in England for your paperwork to come through.
Here endeth the lesson.
Dec 16th 2005, 2:21 am
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Re: US-Mexico border wall
Originally Posted by Lion in Winter
I have difficulty with the criminalisation of the people. I can't understand the lack of empathy that prevents people from appreciating the depths of poverty from which so many immigrants come; and I can't understand why they don't see that a parent would do anything to save their child from disease and hunger. I've know too many people in that condition. Sitting and watching your baby die because you can't buy antibiotics because your country's economy is up the creek without a paddle is not the same as waiting in a semi-detached in England for your paperwork to come through.
Here endeth the lesson.
Here endeth the lesson.
Dec 16th 2005, 2:21 am
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Re: US-Mexico border wall
When I was a "yoof" we used the word spic.. well actually Spick.. coupled with Span ... Some of the older gentlemen will remember ....
Dec 16th 2005, 2:22 am
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Re: US-Mexico border wall
Originally Posted by Manc
that's deep and wi.......*slap*
I don't think I'd find it necessary to actually slap you.
Dec 16th 2005, 2:22 am
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Re: US-Mexico border wall
Originally Posted by Ray
When I was a "yoof" we used the word spic.. well actually Spick.. coupled with Span ... Some of the older gentlemen will remember ....
It's a kind of floor cleaner isn't it?
Dec 16th 2005, 2:23 am
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Re: US-Mexico border wall
Originally Posted by Lion in Winter
It's a kind of floor cleaner isn't it?
Dec 16th 2005, 2:24 am
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Re: US-Mexico border wall
Originally Posted by Manc
thought it was a term for "clean"
Ray must be squeaky clean then.