Exactly like those that listen to Yaxley and Farage really.
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Political Correctness
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Give em enough rope to hang themselves my old mum would say
Of course, same argument so I agree.................. Were you expecting me to disagree?
No was simply making sure both sides were covered.
Not sure what you mean by " sides " but free speech is free speech and if you hang yourself with it then so be it.
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Hi Raef. Yes, I was covering a class for somebody and was a little surprised. I do think sensitivity is appropriate, as Waltz mentions but it is still something I can't quite get my head around.
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Not that they’re a sensitive bunch at all.
Actually not sure about this at all, any publicity is good publicity for an actor and new movie release.
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That cliché works much of the time. But he's risking a big backlash that could see him lose future starring roles if this mud sticks and maybe it could also have a negative impact on box office takings for this film.
I heard John Barnes on 5Live this morning. I fully agreed with him (although he was sailing close to the wind himself when he said that if his own daughter had been killed in the Manchester bombing, he didn't know if he'd have gone out to roam the streets looking to kill a Muslim!")
Barnes was put up against a young black (I assume) woman, who completely 100% disagreed with him. In her eyes, Neeson is an unforgivable racist and she thought Barnes deserved similar disdain for holding his view. She would not for one moment entertain the idea that there might be ANY mitigation.
But I think this event took place over 40 years ago. For example, we were all exposed as children to Alf Garnett on BBC1 and it was a society that WAS racist. How can you blame a young person if they didn't grow up to be immediately entirely balanced? And I guess the tribal nature of Northern Irish society in the seventies probably didn't help him grow up with an unprejudiced view on life either. What he did seems to me to be rather on the edge but the attitude of 'once a racist, always a racist' is actually ignorant and closed-minded. The young black woman who was up against John Barnes was unwittingly displaying the sorts of traits that she accused others of doing.
I'm not clear as to whether this was a school policy, an instruction from the RE teacher you were covering for or something from elsewhere.
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Yes.
Of course it matters. Context is crucial. Is it one individual's judgment? Is it a collective institutional decision? Is it national policy? "Who" enables the question "why"to be better framed surely and will inform the debate. To simply ignore the context and flounce off into a world of cliches merely clouds the issue rather than putting it under the spotlight, which is what is required.
Okay, fair enough but whoevers decission it was I stand by what I said... " It's ridiculous ".............. We'll have to wait for Mer5ey to explain but I doubt he was making a song and dance over nothing.
I agree it's ridiculous, but I want to know why and who because that makes a significant difference.
Actually on the same subject I bet we don't get an answer because he'll have to be very careful what he says..... Which is even more bollocks in my view.
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Jesus. Planet Earth calling.