The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #140761   Message #4057373
Posted By: Jim Carroll
05-Jun-20 - 04:28 AM
Thread Name: Are racist, but traditional, songs OK?
Subject: RE: Are racist, but traditional, songs OK?
"No. As far as I am aware singing Little Sir Hugh is not a hate crime yet. "
So you don't mind antisemitic songs if they are legal - hm
Nobody is associating these songs with anything other than making racist language acceptable - as you are doing
Would you frisk audiences for a Torah before you sang Sir Hugh or would you just plough on and tell the Jews in your audience that their people went in for blood sacrifice ?
I was reminded how acceptable racism was in Britain on the way back from the paper shop this morning by a news item reporting how an Irish woman in Coventry was instructed to remove her newly buried mother's tombstone because it was in Irish
She appealed to the law courts and her appeal was turned down on the grounds that an untranslated Irish inscription might be considered inflammatory
Our country has a major race problem - I'm sorry you wish to be part of it - I thought more of you
Jim