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Thread #98442   Message #1950164
Posted By: The Shambles
28-Jan-07 - 02:54 AM
Thread Name: BS: The term Afro American?
Subject: RE: BS: The term Afro American?
I think the recent storm in a tea cup does show how dangerous well-intentioned ideas can be.

It appears that the UK public have no idea what racism, or a what a racist really is. It appears that the media here has encouraged just about every British Asian to expose their own racist attitudes as if openly displaying their fuzzy and selective concept of what racism is - were acceptable.

The concept encouraged by our media is that it is than some lind of fuzzy idea that goes about as far as white people saying things that may offend black people.

To the point where it is becoming difficult just to treat all individuals objectivly. A point which is currently being exploited by those with agendas of their own and where it is acceptable for some members of one group to blatently play the race card.

The most important consideration is that if more care is not taken with the use of these terms - there will be a backlash reaction to all this, that no one in our country will benefit from.

The individual on the show concerned did choose to play this card - and quite intentionally in my view - in order to win the game.

I suggest that what first needs to be accepted that not to be seen to be politically correct or to fall out with a member of an ethnic group, does not make anyone a racist.

And that many people are now becoming terrified of expressing an objective view - for fear of being publicly labelled a racist. Which only feeds the real racist underbelly that exists everywhere.