Why is there a constant OBSESSION with racism on here???

People probably dont set out to be a WUM on here, it's more often than not people who are easily triggered who take a post that they dont like as simply a WUM especially when they dont agree

 

I don't think there is a CONSTANT OBSESSION with RACISM on here. There is an OCCASIONAL thread where racist views pop up and folks air their VIEWS but constant? Nah.
P.s. I thought that SHOUTING fitted in with the thread title somehow

 

Not another vile fooooking racism thread.

 

Obsession with Rimming Paul Heckingbottom.

 

I’m half way with Nudger on this in that there are threads on here that very quickly break down and one poster accuses the other of being a Rascist/Tory/ + isms and actually a lot of the time it a just because they have a different opinion.
Not convinced it’s a problem as in happens all time but I get what he’s getting at.
I also sometimes wonder if some throw it out there to deflect from the original topic.

 

Show me where someone said ‘Brexit is racist’. They didn’t. You’re getting confused with the old, but probably true adage ‘not all Brexit-voters are racist, but all racists voted for Brexit’.

 

I don't think "isms" will ever be eradicated. You can sensor and brand people for what they say but you can't change what they think. If anybody is daft enough to type or say out loud their inner most feelings more fool them.

 

I'll hold my hand up to that- it's probably what he means. I'm pretty sure in one of our circular arguments that I said Brexit was underpinned by Racism - which is obviously not factually correct, but it's a huge factor imo.

 

No, I’d argue that was factually correct!

 

I remember watching the programme where Will Self came out with that line on all racists voting for brexit and I did think at the time that it was both a very clever but spiteful thing to say. How many times do we hear the phrase Little Englander to describe brexit supporters, there’s now a sort of reverse racism where people complain about the use of the Union Jack in supermarkets, where our local high school is prevented from flying the St George Cross for St Georges Day, where my daughters head teacher at primary school had to stop putting on the Christmas nativity play lest it offend and be seen as racist. We’ve gone mad with it and I do agree with Nudger on this one I’ve had it said to me on here a few times and it does make you back off ( which is the intention) as its a label no one wants.

 

You can say what you like trickster but a succession of BNP, National Front, football hooligans UKIP etc have added a sad tinge of distaste to the sight of both the Union flag and the St George's flag by their use of it.

 

Which school.were these? I dont know of a single school.that stopped doing a nativity play in case it offended another religion.

 

These days Stu.

 

Sadly you’re right, but we shouldn't be ashamed of it because it means different things to different people.

 

I do. I won’t name it though. The ( now retired) headteacher was advised that the annual nativity play was no longer considered appropriate as it didn't reflect all the religions at the school and some parents were uncomfortable with their children taking part.The local virtue signalers joined the fray and we never sang We Three Kings with the kids ever again. He stopped doing it but stuck 2 fingers up by substituting it with an old music hall type show which ended with the kids singing ‘Land of Hope and Glory’ waving union jacks on sticks like the ones you put in sandcastles. The local VJ’s were indignant and he retired with a wry smile on his face. Brilliant.

 

When I watch England play in a foreign country and I see "Barnsley" in the middle of a St George's Cross behind the goals do I ever think "our local racists are abroad again"?

Nope - I'm proud that they're there. It never crosses my mind that there's anything distasteful about it.

 

Don’t believe you if you don’t name it - simple as that.

the vast majority of ‘you can’t (insert bullsh it here) nowadays’ turn out to be complete fabrications.

by repeating a story we can’t fact check you become part of the problem.

these days...

 

Not heard of any of the schools I've worked in not doing one - we still did one in my first school where 27 languages were taught - all of them talk about St George's day - many of them allow children to dress in red and white

 

If he's retired there's no harm in mentioning the name of the school surely?

 

I really don’t care whether you believe me or not and as I live in North Yorkshire and you don’t I doubt very much that you’d know the school or it’s pupils anyway. Fact is racist is a word people over use and we’re all scared of. You’ve only to look at how labour led local authorities have turned a blind eye to asian men raping vulnerable white girls for fear of causing racial tensions to see that in action.