Man blacks up as Diane Abbott at the darts.Racist?
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 Hrolf The Ganger  18 Dec 17 8.38pm |
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Originally posted by nickgusset
No it's only not racially insensitive if you are racially insensitive. That is total crap. It is only racially sensitive if you are too sensitive.
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| Hrolf The Ganger 18 Dec 17 8.40pm |
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Originally posted by regal_eagle
What are you happy taking for your beliefs? Good for you. But you might have waited until someone had actually expressed some.
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| Stirlingsays Online 18 Dec 17 8.40pm |
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Originally posted by regal_eagle
What are you happy taking for your beliefs?
Maybe Nick and co will make a small statue of you out of pure progressive love made manifest.
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| jamiemartin721 Reading 18 Dec 17 8.43pm |
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Originally posted by matt_himself
I normally agree with you but on this I don’t. I agree that the people doing, generally, don’t do it in a frame of mind that is racist in intent. However, it is arguable that the origins of ‘blackface’, from minstrels and performers, was racist in intent and mocked black people. You probably don’t mind, like me, people doing ‘whiteface’ but neither you or I has been subjected to the overt racism and prejudice black people have during history and the cultural significance of people mocking them about their colour. I just think in a civilised society, if a group objects to something happening and there is good reason for that objection, then others should respect their wishes. I agree. I don't really understand why people would do something that deliberately cause offence to people they don't know.
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| Stirlingsays Online 18 Dec 17 8.46pm |
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Originally posted by jamiemartin721
I agree. I don't really understand why people would do something that deliberately cause offence to people they don't know. You insult Trump but you don't know him. That causes offence to his supporters. Basic freedom. Edited by Stirlingsays (18 Dec 2017 8.47pm)
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regal_eagle  somewhere 18 Dec 17 8.47pm |
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Originally posted by jamiemartin721 I agree. I don't really understand why people would do something that deliberately cause offence to people they don't know.
Because they're trying to get a cheap laugh, so it must be worth offending a whole race, right??
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| nickgusset Shizzlehurst 18 Dec 17 8.48pm |
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Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger
That is total crap. It is only racially sensitive if you are too sensitive. Can you see or understand why black people might find it offensive. Why didn't the bloke get one of his black friends to dress up as Abbott? Theres a bit of a fixation about Dianne Abbott, she was mentioned a lot in the speeches at the last FLA march. She is a Goldstein for our age.
Abbott told the study her experience as an MP had gone from receiving one racist letter a week to hundreds every day, including letters covered in swastikas and pictures of monkeys and chimpanzees. “It’s the volume of it which makes it so debilitating, so corrosive, and so upsetting. It’s the sheer volume. And the sheer level of hatred that people are showing,” she told researchers. Abbott said she was “not entirely surprised” she was the main target for abuse but added it was “sickening to see it in figures”. “It’s highly racialised and it’s also gendered because people talk about rape and they talk about my physical appearance in a way they wouldn’t talk about a man. I’m abused as a female politician and I’m abused as a black politician.”
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| regal_eagle somewhere 18 Dec 17 8.48pm |
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Originally posted by Stirlingsays You insult Trump but you don't know him.
Basic freedom. Edited by Stirlingsays (18 Dec 2017 8.47pm) Again, it's based on things he chooses to say or do, not because he was born different to you
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| Stirlingsays Online 18 Dec 17 8.49pm |
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Originally posted by regal_eagle
Because they're trying to get a cheap laugh, so it must be worth offending a whole race, right?? A 'whole race'? Wow, that's some census you carried out there.
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| martin2412 Living The Dream 18 Dec 17 8.50pm |
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We just need to laugh very loudly at these waynkers. I'm sure they're just playing a game to see who bites.
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| Stirlingsays Online 18 Dec 17 8.54pm |
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Originally posted by regal_eagle
Again, it's based on things he chooses to say or do, not because he was born different to you
That's the point I was answering. There shouldn't be 'protected' classes who can't be criticised.
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| regal_eagle somewhere 18 Dec 17 8.57pm |
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Originally posted by Stirlingsays A 'whole race'? Wow, that's some census you carried out there.
It's a cheap shot and meant to be funny at the expense of the colour of someones skin. Is that really so hard to understand?
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