Racist slurs

[Viney]

Originally Posted by Pedrosa

If you only knew who and what was behind it!

I Quote the Great Keith D here whan i say...

Is it George Best?

[timwilky]

Actually, he privately told me how upset he was that his innocent wit had been taken out of context and used to beat him up.

Can I please ask that we draw a line under this and allow this thread to die.

Originally Posted by sv-robo

i think your posting name is very offensive to the asian community.

see, now i feel bad for laughing at this!!!

Originally Posted by 21QUEST

Does living in a society where litigation is the thing to do, perhaps make people, just that little bit more sensitive?

No, to be sensitive would be to avoid saying things that offend other people because it's unpleasant. Not saying it because you're afraid of being throw in prison doesn't really hold quite the same moral cache.

I'm still yet to read anything from the PC contingent that explains why attacking someone is worse when it has a racial motivation.

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

I'm not racist, but I don't like the way that minorites get preferential treatment for playing the race card, or the gay card, or the I'm a discriminated against celebrity get me out of here card.

I like this, it is the way i feel.

*Cat amongst pigeon moment*
What you gonna say about this guy if you saw him out and about, you'd prob point and look at him >>>>>>>>> cos he's got Blue skin, is he different, well yeah he has blue skin, but should he be TREATED differently, no he is a human being. Now as quoted when the race card gets played its different it ****es me off. I have lots of coloured friends and to me they are exactly the same as non coloured mates.

A friend of mine once took me into a club that was apparently for black people only, it is amazing how differently you get treated from the jibber jabba you get told, people had told me that it was a bad place and the wrong place for a white guy to go, my friend Renaldo(Ron) took me there and I said I dont wanna go in, he said dont get all racial on me(as a joke), i got in there and i tell you what had the best night in a long time i had had out. Yes there was only me and maybe 2 others that were white. No problems, decent people and a laugh at some points. I then met the manager of the place, he came over to Ron and was talking, we then sat down and chatted, he questioned me as to why not so many if any white people came in, and once told he was upset and somewhat hurt in the manner his club had been named so to say. Whether it be down to racist comments about the club or put off sorta comments such as I had heard he couldnt believe it, he went about and the next weekend I went in with 5 or 6 other mates aswell as Ron, he was chuffed to bits.

In my eyes racism can be a very tricky/argumentative subject to talk about with just white people, but once coloured people get involved it turns into a discussion providing that all people are sensible about the way views are put across.

Can i just clarify that my terminology on coloured people I find very difficult to demine when in a discussion, i do not want others to take it as I am saying that white people and coloured(there it is again) are seperate people. As one time a while ago Lissa bought a subject up and i felt i could not put my point across properly without possibly offending others, I'm sorry if I have done that here I do not mean to.





The end, its a mini adventure

Originally Posted by plowsie

What you gonna say about this guy if you saw him out and about, you'd prob point and look at him >>>>>>>>> cos he's got Blue skin, is he different, well yeah he has blue skin, but should he be TREATED differently, no he is a human being.

I'm sorry Plowsie but you are way off the mark here, just totally wrong.

He's a Smurf.

Smurfs live in the woods in houses shaped like mushrooms and don't mix with human beings. They may also be French.

....I meant if you saw a blue man walking about, sorry, must make it clear!

Originally Posted by plowsie

must make it clear!

Quite. See how an innocent remark can be taken out of context?

Anyway, it may depend on whether they are only pretending to be blue...



...or really are blue, like this poor fella!

[northwind]

You mean the Blue Man Group aren't really blue? That's another dream dashed

BTW, Plowsie

I personally have enjoyed this thread. I find it fascinating to read other peoples' opinions. Seems a simple thread has turned into a debate, but i must say - what better place to have a debate than in idle banter with people from all walks of life.