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Cockney Mackem said:
I agree, they won't. Ethnic minorities and gay people etc in my experience don't get offended over nothing and don't overreact to an innocent verbal slip. When they do get pissed off it's for a good reason
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Totally agree.

And if they realise that it's a genuine "misunderstanding" they don't tend to throw tantrums and hissy fits.
 

RossTheNinja said:
Depends on the people and the context. Mate of mine is mixed race and used to make borderline racist jokes all the time. Another lad I know posted a picture of him in an igloo he'd made on instagram but put an N in front of the igloo caption. (black lad) Laughed my arse off I've got to say. I think there's a big difference between taking the piss out of yourself or your mates or stereotypes vs having a go at a race cos you think they're all x y or z.
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I worked in a place in the early 90s with a workforce like a benniton advert. Loads of real piss taking and from the outside it was brutal. Very offensive but no offence was ever taken. It’s ok to take the piss out of colour or beliefs if the person you are doing it too is ok about it imo. When that person feels as though the mark has been over stepped then it needs to stop. Consent so to speak
 
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Horatio Pugwash said:
Who are the racists on here?
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MBH was clearly one with his opinion on interracial marriage. Think he's banned though. There was that Lionel Hutzz fella too who was clearly a white supremacist and wasn't exactly shy to admit it.

Of course there's racists on this board though. It would be foolish to think there wasn't, there's a canny few members on here isn't there so it's fair to say there's probably a minority just like in real life.

Of course the next question that usually gets fired out is 'well hoy up some links to some racist comments then'. As if you're going to be stupid enough to post blatant racist comments on here like. When comments have gone up they've been deleted fairly quickly.
 
Gucci Massive said:
MBH was clearly one with his opinion on interracial marriage. Think he's banned though. There was that Lionel Hutzz fella too who was clearly a white supremacist and wasn't exactly shy to admit it.

Of course there's racists on this board though. It would be foolish to think there wasn't, there's a canny few members on here isn't there so it's fair to say there's probably a minority just like in real life.

Of course the next question that usually gets fired out is 'well hoy up some links to some racist comments then'. As if you're going to be stupid enough to post blatant racist comments on here like. When comments have gone up they've been deleted fairly quickly.
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Every time I’m up I hear racist comments to 1 degree or another and I know some of those are by people on here. I would say however, I don’t think those people would ever discriminate against a black person if they had any dealings with them. Probably the opposite actually
 
Gucci Massive said:
MBH was clearly one with his opinion on interracial marriage. Think he's banned though. There was that Lionel Hutzz fella too who was clearly a white supremacist and wasn't exactly shy to admit it.

Of course there's racists on this board though. It would be foolish to think there wasn't, there's a canny few members on here isn't there so it's fair to say there's probably a minority just like in real life.

Of course the next question that usually gets fired out is 'well hoy up some links to some racist comments then'. As if you're going to be stupid enough to post blatant racist comments on here like. When comments have gone up they've been deleted fairly quickly.
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Two out of how many members?

And is it just a sense of "blatant" racism you get? Even when the posts themselves aren't actually racist.

I was accused of being a muslim hating racist on another thread recently even though I'd posted nothing at all to give someone reason to believe so. Someone just wanted to find racism and decided to accuse me. I checked my posts to see how they could have got that impression and couldn't find anything at all that could even have been remotely racist.
Some folk just seem to look for racism.

cornish mackem said:
Every time I’m up I hear racist comments to 1 degree or another and I know some of those are by people on here. I would say however, I don’t think those people would ever discriminate against a black person if they had any dealings with them. Probably the opposite actually
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Is it really racism when we tell you to fck off back to pasty land though?

;)
 
Horatio Pugwash said:
Two out of how many members?

And is it just a sense of "blatant" racism you get? Even when the posts themselves aren't actually racist.

I was accused of being a muslim hating racist on another thread recently even though I'd posted nothing at all to give someone reason to believe so. Someone just wanted to find racism and decided to accuse me. I checked my posts to see how they could have got that impression and couldn't find anything at all that could even have been remotely racist.
Some folk just seem to look for racism.


Is it really racism when we tell you to fck off back to pasty land though?

;)
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Yous would be gutted if I didn’t come up to broaden your cultural awareness
 
wakey wakey said:
You don’t describe someone with red hair as the person with coloured hair do you
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If I was trying to tell someone about, say, a lass I know who I couldn't remember the name of but had ginger hair, I would almost certainly refer to her as 'the ginger lass' or something similar.

That's because it is the most obviously noticeable thing about her that isn't in any way offensive. I would probably say the same if I had a black mate and someone didn't know who he was if I was for instance talking about 'my mate Matt' - if they asked who he was I'd say Matt is the black lad.

If that's racist well I'm guilty. But it's not, clearly. You can describe someone by the way they look no matter what that characteristic is.

In the right company I might even say 'the fat lad' even though it's a bit rude. But I'm a f***ing normal 32 year old lad and I'm not going to all of a sudden pretend not to be mildly offensive when I'm with my pals in real life. Virtue signalling is so common online these days but in real life the majority of people are decent respectful people anyway, but I challenge anyone who says they are never at least mildly offensive in the right company.
 
I was working in Trinidad a few years ago and overheard some locals discussing the use of the word blackie in the UK to describe coloured people. Turns out one of their workmates had the surname Black and his wife would ring him at work and ask to speak to "Blackie"
They thought it was hilarious.One of them explained that Blackie is what white people in the UK call black people. They were literally doubled over laughing that anyone could take offence. I remember one of them saying "but we are black".
Different culture and context I suppose
 
Horatio Pugwash said:
I was working in Trinidad a few years ago and overheard some locals discussing the use of the word blackie in the UK to describe coloured people. Turns out one of their workmates had the surname Black and his wife would ring him at work and ask to speak to "Blackie"
They thought it was hilarious.One of them explained that Blackie is what white people in the UK call black people. They were literally doubled over laughing that anyone could take offence. I remember one of them saying "but we are black".
Different culture and context I suppose
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Was this recently or back in 1967?:p
 
ProfessionalMackem said:
That's my point though. Why use the colour of their skin to describe them in the 1st place though? Like in my previous post, we don't go around saying, milky Mick or pale Pete? Why darky Dave or black Ben?
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Sometimes it relevant ,most of the time it’s not I agree.If I’m pointing my Joiner out to a Client/delivery driver etc I don’t say “him there with the pencil behind his ear I say “ask the big ginger gadgie over there .”
If he was black I’d say “ask the big black lad over there “

Can’t see what the issue is about saying someone’s black or white etc :confused:as long as it’s not in a derogatory or threatening manner.
 
gillythedilf said:
I find it all very exhaustive to try and fathom out .:confused:

Unsure how to address people from the colonies tbh .
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Colonies! Colonies! It's the Empire sar!

Stevie Freestein II said:
There was a time that if someone called you a ‘canute’ that it would probably end up in a fight.

Nowadays even women are using it as a more mild insult.

Times change, the vernacular changes, insults change and we find new ones to provoke others.
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Too true, Frankinsein mate. My owld Da was dumbfounded with the rock and roll 50's, and whole long hair hippy culture of the 60's. I used to laugh at his "old fashioned ways and beliefs". I was brought up learning Foot, Pounds, Secs and Pounds Shillings and Pence. Imagine the problems us owldies had when every fuckin thing went metric. Same with social attitudes. You mainly tend to stick with your own age group, which share a similar upbriging, understanding, and values. It's hard for older people to keep track of the shifts in fashion, trends, flavour of the month outrages, social changes, and also to recognise what is now not sociably acceptable, which was at one time in their lives, very normal
 
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