Society/Culture When is racism really racism?

[Sweet Jesus]

 

[Cmarsh]

NZ soccer team may replace its "all whites" moniker.

'Utterly ridiculous' - Fans fume as New Zealand Football consider changing All Whites name

New Zealand Football (NZF) are reportedly considering abandoning the men's national team's All Whites nickname and some fans are far from happy.

www.google.com

No word yet about a possible change of name for its rugby team.

 

[the_interloper]

NZ soccer team may replace its "all whites" moniker.

'Utterly ridiculous' - Fans fume as New Zealand Football consider changing All Whites name

New Zealand Football (NZF) are reportedly considering abandoning the men's national team's All Whites nickname and some fans are far from happy.

www.google.com

No word yet about a possible change of name for its rugby team.

Ha ha, that will never happen

 

[Ghost Patrol]

The Wiggles announces four new band members with focus on diversity, gender equality

The Wiggles family has officially grown to eight.

www.news.com.au

yeah this looks a lot like racism.

wiggles like singing cultural songs but got smashed for cultural appropriation. Cos you know. They had the wrong colour of skin.

now they bring on 4 new wiggles all from 4 different races so they can sing their cultural songs.

the original wiggle said it best. We used to just be about child education. Now we have to all have different genders and races.

the non binary unicorn character. That’s just woke gold

 

[Seeds]

Wouldnt know. Not a conservative.

 

[Pie eyed]

No Collingwood Wiggle?
WTF!

 

[Suspense]

Including the nuttiest trans activists?

If they are resorting to personal abuse and death threats, absolutely.

 

[Sweet Jesus]

If they are resorting to personal abuse and death threats, absolutely.

I don't think death threats are required to qualify. I reckon we can dismiss folks as "rabid" well before that threshold.

 

[Sweet Jesus]

That Siamese cat song is amazing.

I had a vague memory of it from childhood and never gave it a second thought. So I looked it up recently and within 10 seconds, I was like "oh, right".

 

[the_interloper]

Just spoke to a customer, asked him how he’s been “oh mate I’m as busy as a ****** in a cotton field”, “er ok, Um so about that opportunity…”

 

[Sweet Jesus]

Fire first, ask questions later...

Woman apologizes but denies 'racial undertones' in park confrontation

Emma Sarley was filmed by author Frederick Joseph after an altercation at McCarren Park in Brooklyn on Sunday during which time she told him and his fiancé to 'stay in [their] hood'.

www.google.com

 

[the_interloper]

Fire first, ask questions later...

Woman apologizes but denies 'racial undertones' in park confrontation

Emma Sarley was filmed by author Frederick Joseph after an altercation at McCarren Park in Brooklyn on Sunday during which time she told him and his fiancé to 'stay in [their] hood'.

www.google.com

What's with the employer firing the women on this basis? I feel that's an inappropriate thing for that woman to say for sure, I don't really blame the guy for being angry, but the employer firing her because he complained to her?

 

[Michael Corleone]

What's with the employer firing the women on this basis? I feel that's an inappropriate thing for that woman to say for sure, I don't really blame the guy for being angry, but the employer firing her because he complained to her?

No company in the USA wants an angry mob at the front door of their offices.

 

[Sweet Jesus]

Looks like the blackface debate is being revisited. The teacher showed the film version of Laurence Olivier as Othello and that led to him getting canned. Surely that's a bit much?

A Blackface ‘Othello’ Shocks, and a Professor Steps Back From Class (Published 2021)

Students objected after the composer Bright Sheng showed the 1965 film of Laurence Olivier’s “Othello” to his class at the University of Michigan.

www.google.com

 

[Sweet Jesus]

Can folks access this link? It's pretty good IMO.

Opinion | What I See in the Latest Blackface ‘Scandal’ (Published 2021)

Michigan’s campus cancelers aren’t snowflakes they’re radicals.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

Fire first, ask questions later...

Woman apologizes but denies 'racial undertones' in park confrontation

Emma Sarley was filmed by author Frederick Joseph after an altercation at McCarren Park in Brooklyn on Sunday during which time she told him and his fiancé to 'stay in [their] hood'.

www.google.com

Well she is a filthy racist she doesn't deserve a job.Plus it's a puff piece from the Daily Fail.You can't trust anything in that shitrag.

 

[Sweet Jesus]

Well she is a filthy racist she doesn't deserve a job.Plus it's a puff piece from the Daily Fail.You can't trust anything in that shitrag.

She's a filthy racist on what basis? That's quite an allegation. Can you support that?

Which facts in the story I posted do you dispute?

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

She's a filthy racist on what basis? That's quite an allegation. Can you support that?

Which facts in the story I posted do you dispute?

She told a black guy to go back to his hood

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

She's a filthy racist on what basis? That's quite an allegation. Can you support that?

Which facts in the story I posted do you dispute?

I dispute every 'fact' in the Daily Mail.
They denied climate change despite overwhelming evidence and talk utter right wing crap.

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

She's a filthy racist on what basis? That's quite an allegation. Can you support that?

Which facts in the story I posted do you dispute?

Do you feel sorry for this women or something?

 

[Sweet Jesus]

She told a black guy to go back to his hood

Have you seen seen footage of that?

Even then, that's not explicitly racist. There is some implied racism but it could indeed be a case of a white girl adopting the parlance of referring to her neighbourhood as her "hood", without considering that there's any particular racial stigma attached to the phrase.

Even then, that's a very tenuous basis to conclude "she is a filthy racist ... she doesn't deserve a job".

There's nothing liberal about that impulse.

You would have been first in line to sit on a jury for a witch trial 400 years ago.

 

[Sweet Jesus]

I dispute every 'fact' in the Daily Mail.

Go on then.

Dispute them.

Or are you just saying you dispute them even though you can't/don't?

 

[Sweet Jesus]

Do you feel sorry for this women or something?

I'm not convinced she deserved to lose her job on the basis of what's been reported and I'm not convinced the fellow who used his social media profile to chastise her behaved ethically.

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

Have you seen seen footage of that?

Even then, that's not explicitly racist. There is some implied racism but it could indeed be a case of a white girl adopting the parlance of referring to her neighbourhood as her "hood", without considering that there's any particular racial stigma attached to the phrase.

Even then, that's a very tenuous basis to conclude "she is a filthy racist ... she doesn't deserve a job".

There's nothing liberal about that impulse.

You would have been first in line to sit on a jury for a witch trial 400 years ago.

The bottom line is that she is a racist who thinks she is superior to black people and needs to put them in their place.
She was probably raised to think like that.
You can employ tricky arguments but we all know the score.

 

[Sweet Jesus]

The bottom line is that she is a racist who thinks she is superior to black people and needs to put them in their place.
She was probably raised to think like that.
You can employ tricky arguments but we all know the score.

Is it "the bottom line"? Can you demonstrate any of this?

You want to sit in judgement of people. That's your impulse. And the allegations of racism are merely the vehicle for you to scratch that itch.

Where is the liberal impulse in any of this? Do you have evidence for your claims?