Is this not a form of racism?

Originally Posted by Dicky Ticker

I got lobbed out for wearing a balaclava after removing my helmet and I fail to see the difference between that a certain Oriental dress that is permitted

Next time tell them that you're a devout sikh and cannot expose your hair in public.

Or just claim to be a very ugly muslim woman who believes your getup to be well within your religion.

Originally Posted by Spank86

"wanting to kill jews" last time I checked, wasn't a race.

It was a race, and we won.
In the (cough)hundreds, we deported all the Jews in the country. We loaded them with all their most valuable positions onto ships and set sail. A few hours/days in, the ships anchored near some sand dunes(?) and told the Jews they were allowed off to stretch their legs. The captains weighed anchor and went back to England with all these valuables and left the Jews there to drown.

Before you say hitler was evil for killing Jews, remember that it was our idea first. (The Egyptians don't count)

We certainly weren't the first, we were but one of many. We did however invent the first concentration camps in the boer war and were the first country to bombard a city (Copenhagen)

Two more reasons why WW2 was not really about the 100% clean and good British empire fighting for the side of light..

What a lot if people don't remember is, that we only declared war on Germany because they invaded Poland. Not because we felt bad about the Jews.


Neville Chamberlain 1939:
"This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government a
final Note stating that, unless we heard from them by 11 o'clock that they were
prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland, a state of war would
exist between us.

I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received, and that
consequently this country is at war with Germany."

[PyroUK]

Originally Posted by Matt-EUC

What a lot if people don't remember is, that we only declared war on Germany because they invaded Poland. Not because we felt bad about the Jews.


Neville Chamberlain 1939:
"This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government a
final Note stating that, unless we heard from them by 11 o'clock that they were
prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland, a state of war would
exist between us.

I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received, and that
consequently this country is at war with Germany."

Careful Matt, people may mistake you for a rational, reasoned intellectual.



But in response to the op. I didn't read the whole story because that link wasn't the whole story, the guy apparently said he was handing out business cards or something. Perhaps it was for a reanactment group and the guy dressed as a British soldier was in tesco and the guy dressed as a yank was in sainsburys handing out cards.

Either way it's not really racism just persecution of people not liking the clothes of another individual. Such as when ignorant people look upon Muslim women in a hijab with derision or an Orthodox Jew for wearing the full gear for being so brazen to show their beliefs in public.

The only difference here is that it is more socially acceptable to make it publicly known that you have taken offence to the clothing and act upon that offence to some degree.

All those people who complained may well find the aforementioned things offensive but they won't risk the social impact of showing their disdain in such a public manner. But because it's the SS it's fine.

The amount that people harp on about equality etc is complete and utter BS, at the end of the day we are all in some way bias and dislike someone for something. I am completely different though. I am a firm believer in equality which is why I hate everyone, equally.

So the guy is dressed like a t at, big ****ing deal, get over yourself and get on with your day. He isn't harming you, give him a wide berth.

Life is too short to give a single flying F about meaningless ****e like that. There aren't that many people around anymore that can honestly argue about the wars personal impact on them, those that are fair enough bitch and moan to your hearts content. The rest? Well we are riding on something that ended before our time.

Don't get me wrong, the war was a horrific and terrible tragedy. But it's done. Yes a LOT of people lost their lives. BUT people are STILL losing their lives. All the conflicts of recent years and genocides for faith or whatever may pale in comparison to the number of ww2 but these are the things we should be caring about.

Hear hear.

[punyXpress]

The poor barsteward was only living out his Max Mosley fetish!