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  Hrolf The Ganger  27 Nov 16 8.29pm |
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Originally posted by blackpalacefan
He was refering to the racial make up on stories on the news. This is not the same issue. No actually I wasn't, but don't let that stop your meltdown. I was actually referring to people's reactions to seeing far more non white people on the news than they see in their own area. The point being that it is non representative.
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| blackpalacefan 27 Nov 16 8.35pm |
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Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger
Er no. You are nothing if not predictable. I suppose you think that maybe wish I hadn't started this thread, or maybe that was your hope, but you'd be wrong. The French election are coming up soon.
You appear to have decided on account that I didn't buy totally into your strange racial news coverage point that I'm terrified of the fact we're leaving the EU. What strange cliches and batches of beliefs people buy into. Not everyones a cliche. Most people brexit or not aren't coming out with guff like this thread. Your french election comment... I'm not taking the bait. As for Brexit, I have no issue with countries wanting to control immigration and as the vote is in, we make the best as a country from here on it. That's black, white, rich, poor. Hopefully you'll settle down then, if not there's always France.
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| Hrolf The Ganger 27 Nov 16 8.39pm |
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Originally posted by blackpalacefan
You appear to have decided on account that I didn't buy totally into your strange racial news coverage point that I'm terrified of the fact we're leaving the EU. What strange cliches and batches of beliefs people buy into. Not everyones a cliche. Most people brexit or not aren't coming out with guff like this thread. Your french election comment... I'm not taking the bait. As for Brexit, I have no issue with countries wanting to control immigration and as the vote is in, we make the best as a country from here on it. That's black, white, rich, poor. Hopefully you'll settle down then, if not there's always France. It's remarkable what you interpret from what people say. Nonsense but remarkable. You have spent loads of energy trying to dispute a point I never made in the first place. Well done. Now please, just drop it.
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| blackpalacefan 27 Nov 16 8.44pm |
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Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger
No actually I wasn't, but don't let that stop your meltdown. I was actually referring to people's reactions to seeing far more non white people on the news than they see in their own area. The point being that it is non representative. News is representative of what of note has happened that day. There is no conspiracy theory to find stories about non whites because stories present themselves. Make up your mind about whether you're personally and unusually troubled by news demographics on one specific day, or concerns about national ITV news not being racially representitive of peoples areas. 'Again' for one, national news most often is similar across Sky news, Itv and others based on big events that day, not racial quotas. As stated often there are no non whites as the case today. And you do realise that local news exists too. Funnily enough news in heavily white areas is most often about white people. If you want to make a point that the BBC or the like employ people based on gender or race to meet quotas then make that point. I've already stated that I think that is arbitrary and foolish. However if you reach a point where you're convincing yourself the news events covered are designed to shut out white people and disproportionaly highlight other races then I think you've jumped the shark. Edited by blackpalacefan (27 Nov 2016 8.53pm)
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| blackpalacefan 27 Nov 16 8.50pm |
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Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger
It's remarkable what you interpret from what people say. Nonsense but remarkable. You have spent loads of energy trying to dispute a point I never made in the first place. Well done. Now please, just drop it. You're the one so disturbed by a disparity in white or non white ratio on the ITV news one night that you need us all to know about it and how 'foreign' some will view it to be and how you were born here? Bully for you. You're not obliged to reply. If you don't want to then don't. Edited by blackpalacefan (27 Nov 2016 8.54pm)
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| Hrolf The Ganger 27 Nov 16 8.55pm |
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Originally posted by blackpalacefan
You're the one so disturbed by a disparity in white or non white ratio on the ITV news one night that you need us all to know about it and how 'foreign' some will view it to be and how you were born here? Bully for you. You're not obliged to reply. If you don't want to then don't. Edited by blackpalacefan (27 Nov 2016 8.52pm) Well actually, it appears that you are the one disturbed BPF. I'm fine.
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| blackpalacefan 27 Nov 16 8.59pm |
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Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger
Well actually, it appears that you are the one disturbed BPF. I'm fine. Wonderful. Edited by blackpalacefan (27 Nov 2016 9.01pm)
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| Hrolf The Ganger 27 Nov 16 9.13pm |
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Originally posted by blackpalacefan
News is representative of what of note has happened that day. There is no conspiracy theory to find stories about non whites because stories present themselves. Make up your mind about whether you're personally and unusually troubled by news demographics on one specific day, or concerns about national ITV news not being racially representitive of peoples areas. 'Again' for one, national news most often is similar across Sky news, Itv and others based on big events that day, not racial quotas. As stated often there are no non whites as the case today. And you do realise that local news exists too. Funnily enough news in heavily white areas is most often about white people. If you want to make a point that the BBC or the like employ people based on gender or race to meet quotas then make that point. I've already stated that I think that is arbitrary and foolish. However if you reach a point where you're convincing yourself the news events covered are designed to shut out white people and disproportionaly highlight other races then I think you've jumped the shark. Edited by blackpalacefan (27 Nov 2016 8.53pm) Well I'm glad you have cleared that up...for yourself. Jumping the shark BTW is a metaphor for, among other things, the far fetched. Something that nicely describes your hijacking of this thread to rant about racism. All those evil racists lurking in the shires eh. Good night.
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| blackpalacefan 27 Nov 16 9.14pm |
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Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger
Well I'm glad you have cleared that up...for yourself. Jumping the shark BTW is a metaphor for, among other things, the far fetched. Something that nicely describes your hijacking of this thread to rant about racism. All those evil racists lurking in the shires eh. Good night.
Now are you quite done?
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| Hrolf The Ganger 27 Nov 16 9.17pm |
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Shall we do our own version For HOL harmony?
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| blackpalacefan 27 Nov 16 9.19pm |
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Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger
Shall we do our own version For HOL harmony? As long as you're comfortable with the 50/50 racial ratio of the song. You are very concerned by such things, but can hopefully put it aside due to the positive message of the unifying lyrics
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| Hrolf The Ganger 27 Nov 16 9.25pm |
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Originally posted by blackpalacefan
As long as you're comfortable with the 50/50 racial ratio of the song. You are very concerned by such things, but can hopefully put it aside due to the positive message of the unifying lyrics I'm more concerned about who gets top billing.
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