Fantastic.

If he really feels that badly, why put up with it for another 5 or six years? Leave now - you should have enough money behind you - and get a job doing something else - bricklaying, bus driving, lettuce picking, there's plenty to choose from!

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Hypocritical how?

Oh I'm fine with criticism and I'm fine with swearing. Even being sworn at if I deserve it (I usually do).

I'm just not fine with racism. Or ignoring racism in the hope it will go away. Or people who incite hatred like yer boy Tommy.

Insulting people related to their colour is no different from insulting them for being fat, bald, gay or ginger in my book.

You can't do much about any of those except for maybe the first one.
Society makes a big fuss about racial insults because of politics. It has a huge agenda behind it empowered by lobby groups and other self serving organisations.

I understand that Black people were considered inferior in the past and this relates to the resentment about racial slurs today, but how long are we going to use that excuse to treat Black people differently to anyone else? There has to come a time when we are all genuinely equal and equality works both ways.

Let's be clear. This doesn't make racial insults acceptable, but then, nor is any other insulting anti social behaviour.
There is also a double standards element. I often hear Black people insulting Whites in TV Drama and comedy and that is deemed acceptable. You can't have a double standard if you want to be taken seriously.

Yep, it's been a political decision to allow one form of insult.....and it is an insult....to be viewed dramatically higher than other forms.

'Racism' is apart of the human condition. Genuine racism where you will demonise and treat people badly purely based upon their race is not a positive.

However, this term has long been abused and now if someone states a preference they are accused of treating people badly....of being racist. It reduces the whole thing down to an childish situation where you have 'protected' classes of people....People who get different treatment because of a fear of offence......which is just another form of racism by different means.

Apparently the destruction of people's careers has somehow become valid because they might utter something others find offensive......It's a return to Salem's witch trials in many cases.

A whole industry has sprung up to push these narratives and agendas. An industry that ultimately the public is paying for when the law is there for fair treatment anyway.

Edited by Stirlingsays (05 Apr 2019 11.45am)

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