How come there isn't a thread for this ?

Is it because they've revealed their true colours, excuse the deliberate pun.

Folk were warned re their true intentions, but as always called racist by the naive.

1 minute ago, Mr Grey said:

Only Peg Leg Dave can call them Chinkies 😏 

Nice wittle wainbow 🌈 

😎

54 minutes ago, kent_white said:

That's a shame because we've just been nominated for an award at the BAME Healthcare Awards. Someone needs to tell them and quick! 😁

The BAME award you've been nominated for is actually the Bummers And Medical Eejits Award.

So no need for a change.

 

Just now, Youri McAnespie said:

The BAME award you've been nominated for is actually the Bummers And Medical Eejits Award.

So no need for a change.

 

Has your inflatable Jeremy Corbyn sprung a leak?, didn't expect you back so soon

15 minutes ago, DavidLeesMullet said:

Should have said inflatable Jeremy Corbyn, ::lol::!!!

Miamiwhite - 1/10 fav.

Bolty58 - 2/1

Gonzo - 13/2

Spider - 10/1

Noballs - 50/1 outsider.

 

Very disappointing happenings at Pimlico Academy

Edited April 3, 20215 yr by boltondiver

43 minutes ago, paulhanley said:

The English language is free for all to use. If people disagree, they should debate. Nobody should put themselves on a pedestal that allows them to believe they can dictate which words are or are not "acceptable" for use.

We are dealing here with a liberal/woke God complex - people can only use words or opinions that they deem "acceptable.  If you don't play the game then you are a racist/sexist/transphobe .. at the margins/extremist etc.

It is textbook intolerance.

We might not agree on the EU but we agree on this (I think?) 😁

I feel a bit differently about language evolving over time. If society generally decides that terms like 'darkies' or 'paki' should be weeded out, then that's fair enough. It's just the natural evolution of language. 

A committee sitting around and dictating what is and isn't acceptable is where I take issue. Particularly as it was probably a similar committee that dreamed BAME up a couple of years back. 

FWIW - I always thought it was shite terminology, but I've never heard it used in a derogatory sense. Quite the opposite in fact. But I'll await my new acceptable language with baited breath. I hope they don't go for 'people of colour' though. That's massively cringey. 

1 minute ago, kent_white said:

We might not agree on the EU but we agree on this (I think?) 😁

I feel a bit differently about language evolving over time. If society generally decides that terms like 'darkies' or 'paki' should be weeded out, then that's fair enough. It's just the natural evolution of language. 

A committee sitting around and dictating what is and isn't acceptable is where I take issue. Particularly as it was probably a similar committee that dreamed BAME up a couple of years back. 

FWIW - I always thought it was shite terminology, but I've never heard it used in a derogatory sense. Quite the opposite in fact. But I'll await my new acceptable language with baited breath. I hope they don't go for 'people of colour' though. That's massively cringey. 

"People of Colour" won't cover all minorities, either

Just now, kent_white said:

We might not agree on the EU but we agree on this (I think?) 😁

I feel a bit differently about language evolving over time. If society generally decides that terms like 'darkies' or 'paki' should be weeded out, then that's fair enough. It's just the natural evolution of language. 

A committee sitting around and dictating what is and isn't acceptable is where I take issue. Particularly as it was probably a similar committee that dreamed BAME up a couple of years back. 

FWIW - I always thought it was shite terminology, but I've never heard it used in a derogatory sense. Quite the opposite in fact. But I'll await my new acceptable language with baited breath. I hope they don't go for 'people of colour' though. That's massively cringey. 

I still await terms like honkey and cracker to be discussed 

People of colour has been used on the bbc. 

Gaslighting- another new one too. There's a certain irony about folk using it too.

3 minutes ago, boltondiver said:

Very disappointing happenings at Pimlico Academy

Right - so the head has banned massive afros? Presumably for the same reason that they would likely ban 4 foot tall spikes. Namely because people can't see the front of the class?

Pupil - 'Miss I can't see the board because of this girls afro'

Teacher - 'Sorry Johnny but this girl is expressing her identity which is her right as a black woman'

Pupil - 'But I can't see what you've just written'

Teacher - 'Sorry Johnny but this girl is expressing her identity which is her right as a black woman'

Pupil - 'But I'll fail my exams'

Teacher - 'Sorry Johnny but this girl is expressing her identity which is her right as a black woman'

The other option is to ask pupils with massive hairdos to sit at the back of the class.

Can you imagine the shitstorm? 😳😳😳

2 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

People of colour has been used on the bbc. 

Gaslighting- another new one too. There's a certain irony about folk using it too.

Gaslighting is perfect!

Nobody really knows what it actually means and it's general enough that you can apply it to almost any situation with out fear of recrimination. And if somebody does recriminate against you then they're probably gaslighting! 😁

1 minute ago, kent_white said:

Right - so the head has banned massive afros? Presumably for the same reason that they would likely ban 4 foot tall spikes. Namely because people can't see the front of the class?

Pupil - 'Miss I can't see the board because of this girls afro'

Teacher - 'Sorry Johnny but this girl is expressing her identity which is her right as a black woman'

Pupil - 'But I can't see what you've just written'

Teacher - 'Sorry Johnny but this girl is expressing her identity which is her right as a black woman'

Pupil - 'But I'll fail my exams'

Teacher - 'Sorry Johnny but this girl is expressing her identity which is her right as a black woman'

The other option is to ask pupils with massive hairdos to sit at the back of the class.

Can you imagine the shitstorm? 😳😳😳

That and what happened at that Yorkshire school, soon you'll be shamed for farting in the wrong key (I'm definitely a Bb major sort of guy)

Edited April 3, 20215 yr by DavidLeesMullet

Just now, kent_white said:

Gaslighting is perfect!

Nobody really knows what it actually means and it's general enough that you can apply it to almost any situation with out fear of recrimination. And if somebody does recriminate against you then they're probably gaslighting! 😁

Just call it for what it really is...bullying, everybody can understand that.

42 minutes ago, Youri McAnespie said:

The BAME award you've been nominated for is actually the Bummers And Medical Eejits Award.

So no need for a change.

 

Ah - of course! That explains everything. 

I can imagine it though. If we (or whoever) win it - the talk won't be about how we collectively went massively out of our comfort zone to help protect people who were most at risk of complications from COVID because it was the right thing to do. It'll be about whether BAME is the right terminology or not and whether we're 'part of the problem' for even being nominated. Or some such stupid bullshit like that.

Any good work and actual reality will get swallowed up! 

3 minutes ago, kent_white said:

Ah - of course! That explains everything. 

I can imagine it though. If we (or whoever) win it - the talk won't be about how we collectively went massively out of our comfort zone to help protect people who were most at risk of complications from COVID because it was the right thing to do. It'll be about whether BAME is the right terminology or not and whether we're 'part of the problem' for even being nominated. Or some such stupid bullshit like that.

Any good work and actual reality will get swallowed up! 

Sounds like you are completely fed up with lefty thinking

8 minutes ago, kent_white said:

Gaslighting is perfect!

Nobody really knows what it actually means and it's general enough that you can apply it to almost any situation with out fear of recrimination. And if somebody does recriminate against you then they're probably gaslighting! 😁

Exactly; it's perfect. "My dad's harder than yours... no my dad's harder than yours..." Ad infinitum. 

2 minutes ago, DavidLeesMullet said:

Just call it for what it really is...bullying, everybody can understand that.

Yeah - but the type of bullying that nobody can see because it's so subtle (or maybe isn't actually happening apart from in someone's head).

It's all worrying the shit out of me at the moment TBH. Tell a generation of kids that they're oppressed and growing up in a system which is inherently stacked against them and it's no wonder shit happens like at this school. 

Then there will be a resistance and an alienation of 'the middle ground' as that report puts it. And pretty soon the middle ground will start to defend its own interests and then that will lead to a society which really is inherently stacked against people from BAME backgrounds. Self fulfilling prophecy and all that. 

1 minute ago, boltondiver said:

Sounds like you are completely fed up with lefty thinking

I'm completely fed up with some aspects of liberal thinking. I don't think it's as simple as right or left.

100% correct that Kent.

Sure fire way to create resentment/racism.

19 minutes ago, DavidLeesMullet said:

I still await terms like honkey and cracker to be discussed 

What do you white bastards want to be called?

 

Just now, kent_white said:

Yeah - but the type of bullying that nobody can see because it's so subtle (or maybe isn't actually happening apart from in someone's head).

It's all worrying the shit out of me at the moment TBH. Tell a generation of kids that they're oppressed and growing up in a system which is inherently stacked against them and it's no wonder shit happens like at this school. 

Then there will be a resistance and an alienation of 'the middle ground' as that report puts it. And pretty soon the middle ground will start to defend its own interests and then that will lead to a society which really is inherently stacked against people from BAME backgrounds. Self fulfilling prophecy and all that. 

Feel your pain mate, sometimes I feel I just don't belong in this world anymore

3 minutes ago, kent_white said:

Yeah - but the type of bullying that nobody can see because it's so subtle (or maybe isn't actually happening apart from in someone's head).

It's all worrying the shit out of me at the moment TBH. Tell a generation of kids that they're oppressed and growing up in a system which is inherently stacked against them and it's no wonder shit happens like at this school. 

Then there will be a resistance and an alienation of 'the middle ground' as that report puts it. And pretty soon the middle ground will start to defend its own interests and then that will lead to a society which really is inherently stacked against people from BAME backgrounds. Self fulfilling prophecy and all that. 

Spot on. How do we move to a better discourse?

Just now, Youri McAnespie said:

What do you white bastards want to be called?

 

Feeling cranky because you haven't been on your mummy's tit tonight?

4 minutes ago, kent_white said:

I'm getting old...

If that bloody ball comes over again I'll put a bloody knife through it.

I'm off to M&S for some new slacks and the weekly shop...

Enoch was right all them years back.

 

EFA.

2 minutes ago, kent_white said:

I'm completely fed up with some aspects of liberal thinking. I don't think it's as simple as right or left.

When liberal thinking drifts down its own worm hole of almost perpetual self punishment and spits you out the other end scared of saying boo to a goose for fear of being seen as offensive or guilty of an ism.

Not healthy to keep beating yourself up for a thought or a word.

Listen to the birds, enjoy the sun and the colour of a freshly opened tulip.