I’d suggest re reading both my post and the original post that I was replying to.

You’ve missed the boat entirely.

Quite simply, to use your sentence and align it correctly with the point I was making - ‘you don’t need intent to be racist’. Note the absence of ‘a’. Very important that as it was the entire crux of my original post.

So using your example, without explaining the history of it that I would really hope you’d know about, she has used a word that is at best pretty offensive and at worst a racial slur.

Let’s say we go with the worst case interpretation here for the sake of debate, and that a character witness would vouch for her not having a racist bone in her body. First off, yes she is being racist. That much is obvious. Does that make her a racist? No. But I never said that - I said a racist term or act is still racist whether you’re ignorant of its meaning or not. Intent makes it worse, sure, but it doesn’t change the meaning. See above law analogy.

Logic. What a b******.

Did you know? 98.0000001% of people are morons.

Yes, I thought I'd chime in as clearly those words are routinely not used in the same way or for the same purpose. The post was either a lack of acknowledgement of real world behaviour, or an intentional denial of it.

They are certainty at a distinct disadvantage in dealing with this because it's not really an option for the royals to get into a soap opera back and forth. That's important to factor in when the other party has no such restrictions. To even go ahead with this Oprah interview there becomes a need to push and portray the very worst and to possibly exaggerate. A lot of their anger is really with the press, and I don't really see the Royal Family as being able to do anything about that anyway so there was an inevitability to this where an individualistic person enters the family.

The Trump card will always be that the Royals were entirely non judgemental of Prince Andrew and so there is little to no scope of having any issue with anything Meghan says or does in comparison. They're caught in a tough stuff where they're probably best off just saying nothing. Any further contributions just add fuel to the fire.

Edited by BlueJay (09 Mar 2021 8.06pm)

Agree. One small detail. Mike Tindall, Zara Phillips’ husband, has been caught claiming small amounts of furlough with their multi million fortune.

COYP

That was my reaction too. Surprised the Royal family even have a HR department. She did no research, but she seems to have completely misunderstood that its not work, it's a duty and a trade off. She pulls ribbons in exchange for living in a Palace.

When she decided she didn't like being as busy as she is, and didn't like the negative publicity she decided to kick up a fuss, and probably got told that she needs to take the rough with the smooth. You can't pick and choose, especially when you live off a massive grant.

And, if you've got a security issue involving your child, even a minor one, you don't tell the whole f***ing world about it. We'll done s*** for brains, Archie has now got a massive target, and it's all because you wanted to continue a row with the press to score points.

Have they really thought through all the comments they made about the commonwealth being racist. She might see it as point scoring against the Royals. The commonwealth might not be great, but it is a stabilising factor. Destabilise a couple of countries and she'll be putting lives at risk.... this is why the Royals are always so careful. They've got 100's of years of knowledge of what its like to run a constitutional monarchy. Although the reoccurring theme throughout is that Megan thinks she knows better.

Wernt the white ones invited for their opinion and why not? Maybe this is racist but only the act of not asking them!