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View cryrst's Profile cryrst Flag The garden of England 20 Feb 23 8.46pm Send a Private Message to cryrst Add cryrst as a friend

Meritocracy not allowed if black people don’t win
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View Palace Old Geezer's Profile Palace Old Geezer Flag Midhurst 20 Feb 23 9.01pm Send a Private Message to Palace Old Geezer Add Palace Old Geezer as a friend

What is it with these people? Clearly, the best films, actors and others associated with them got the awards.

What has the colour of their skin got to do with it? Surely not everything has to have a black face involved. It's enough that nearly every TV ad shows either black or mixed race folk in a very untypical representation of our demographic.

 


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View Mapletree's Profile Mapletree Flag Croydon 20 Feb 23 10.37pm Send a Private Message to Mapletree Add Mapletree as a friend

Originally posted by Palace Old Geezer

What is it with these people? Clearly, the best films, actors and others associated with them got the awards.

What has the colour of their skin got to do with it? Surely not everything has to have a black face involved. It's enough that nearly every TV ad shows either black or mixed race folk in a very untypical representation of our demographic.

It is easy to tell you don’t live in a metropolis.

46% of London is black or minority ethnic. Ethnically mixed couples appears to be the norm in Croydon.

 

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View Palace Old Geezer's Profile Palace Old Geezer Flag Midhurst 20 Feb 23 11.01pm Send a Private Message to Palace Old Geezer Add Palace Old Geezer as a friend

Originally posted by Mapletree

It is easy to tell you don’t live in a metropolis.

46% of London is black or minority ethnic. Ethnically mixed couples appears to be the norm in Croydon.

Yep Mepletree, I know it might be the norm in Croydon and some other places, but not in the Country as a whole.

 


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View Mapletree's Profile Mapletree Flag Croydon 20 Feb 23 11.24pm Send a Private Message to Mapletree Add Mapletree as a friend

Originally posted by Palace Old Geezer

Yep Mepletree, I know it might be the norm in Croydon and some other places, but not in the Country as a whole.

So when London declares independence don’t worry, we’ll take them all with us. The only question is what to do with Reading.

 

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View Stirlingsays's Profile Stirlingsays Flag 21 Feb 23 12.13am Send a Private Message to Stirlingsays Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add Stirlingsays as a friend

Originally posted by Mapletree

It is easy to tell you don’t live in a metropolis.

46% of London is black or minority ethnic. Ethnically mixed couples appears to be the norm in Croydon.


'Appears', doesn't match up to statistical reality.

What you are happy with isn't the norm for most.

 


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View Stirlingsays's Profile Stirlingsays Flag 21 Feb 23 12.27am Send a Private Message to Stirlingsays Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add Stirlingsays as a friend

Originally posted by cryrst

Meritocracy not allowed if black people don’t win
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Meritocracy only works within low corruption systems.

At the base level all the individual cares about is status.

So whatever tactic works is all they are going to care about.

 


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View Shiny's Profile Shiny Flag 21 Feb 23 4.55am Send a Private Message to Shiny Add Shiny as a friend

Never hear any complaints about the line up for the olympics 100m final. Merit is the key element.


 

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View Midlands Eagle's Profile Midlands Eagle Flag 21 Feb 23 7.20am Send a Private Message to Midlands Eagle Add Midlands Eagle as a friend

Originally posted by Shiny

Never hear any complaints about the line up for the olympics 100m final. Merit is the key element.

Or even Palace's first team

 

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View YT's Profile YT Flag Oxford 21 Feb 23 7.49am Send a Private Message to YT Add YT as a friend

Someone wrote the other day that news and social media coverage of the lady who fell into the water in Lancs would have been virtually non-existent had she been black or Asian. Now we have hypothetical racial bias.

 


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View Nicholas91's Profile Nicholas91 Flag The Democratic Republic of Kent 21 Feb 23 8.09am Send a Private Message to Nicholas91 Add Nicholas91 as a friend

You do wonder how sentiments for 'will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character' have been hijacked and driven over here to judging everything by the colours of people's skin?

It's almost as if it's been hijacked by ideologues and the exclusively self interested or summink?

 


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View Badger11's Profile Badger11 Flag Beckenham 21 Feb 23 8.14am Send a Private Message to Badger11 Add Badger11 as a friend

Originally posted by cryrst

Meritocracy not allowed if black people don’t win
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Luvvy nonsense they all spout the right words but would happily trample over their own grandmother if they thought they were up for an award.

I don't see how you can have any meritocracy in a system where people use emotion to judge another's ability. Some will tell you Gone With the Wind is the Greatest movie ever made others will say it's Ali Gi in Da House. Whatever floats your boat.

Edited by Badger11 (21 Feb 2023 8.17am)

 


One more point

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