The PC and Perpetually Offended Brigade

[Caomhaoin]

The scholarly and legal interpretations of the word racist are at at odds, but one will consume the other sooner rather than later, but whatever.

I agree, the insertion of the racist part has gotten her off the hook to an extent. She's a lesbian and half Indian so a lot of collars were being stretched and hands wrung in the media when what she said came out.

She could have said 'look I was drunk, I shouldn't have said that, sorry. I'll try not to let the people who look up to me down again. Here's 5k to a charity of the officers choice'.

Nah. Can't be racist to white people so fuck ye.

[astfgyl]

Captain of the Australian women's soccer team gets called out and charged for calling a police officer a 'stupid white bastard'.

Hang on, it wasn't, in fact racist

https://amp.theguardian.com/football/2024/mar/10/craig-foster-apologises-to-sam-kerr-after-arguing-her-alleged-remark-to-uk-police-officer-was-racist

What a fucking weak cunt. Racism is racism. If a black lad calls me a white cunt then it's racist. Now to be fair I'd only laugh at the comment but the weak retraction there is disgraceful.

He was happy to learn? What an absolute and total cunt and I hope somewhere along the line that he gets bummed by a couple of

hard, pipe-hitting niggers

as a result

[astfgyl]

Actually in what world are blacks a minority anyway? What's the population of Africa?

Fucking state of that cunt and his happy to learn. He should actually be drowned in a sack for being so fucking useless as a human. Couldn't even stand over his own words for a day or two and now he's happy to learn. Peeling his skin off would be too good for the cunt because he'd probably say he was happy to learn that getting his skin peeled off was actually really painful. What a total cunt.

I'm actually offended by his retraction.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Foster last week urged Football Australia to strip Kerr of the Matildas captaincy if the allegation was proven, to make a stand against racism.

Sounds like he started a thick game and lost. Through thickness if ye like, but he personally got his justs imo.

[astfgyl]

What part of calling out racism against White people is thick?

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

I don't know what his genuine initial motivations were in pushing to have the player disciplined for the (alleged?) slur, but when you roll the nature of his retraction in on top, it's hard to see any way to cut the story in which yer man doesn't come off as being a bit thick.

[Eoin McLove]

Probably the real lesson here is that the over sensitivity around race issues is at a bit of a fever pitch. It's all a bit ludicrous and it might be worth taking a step back. In western countries minorities can work and live, for the most part and excluding the small number of racist muppets who go out of their way to show what CONCERNED CITIZENS they are by bullying people. Those people are in a vast minority, but society is pretending that they pose an existential threat and ramp up the fear and ANTI RACISM AWARENESS! It's like the gay stuff. Gay people are included in all aspects of society these days yet we need to be reminded on a daily basis to BE KIND! Hey, in case you forgot this morning, don't bash the gays. There's an infantilisation of society being pushed that rubs people up the wrong way. How many celebrations of DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION do we need to have each month? In my place of work it's fucking endless which is strange as there appears to be plenty of gay, female and non- white employees all over the shop. I sometimes feel like saying, stop! Look around you! You have arrived! I don't need to be reminded to treat these people, or anyone else (yes, even the white devil) with courtesy and respect.

[Caomhaoin]

Yer man Sunak going on about the threats of Islamic extremists (real, demonstrable) and the 'far right' (fake, certainly dubious, negligible) as if they are somehow comparable. They sent that lad Samuel Melia to jail for two years for 'stickering', so maybe that's what they mean by 'existential threat'. You couldn't listen to a lad like that but it's essentially thought crime.

https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/24156218.far-right-activist-pudsey-jailed-race-hate-sticker-library/

I opened up the independent app yesterday and was greeted with 'we have to talk about the gender imbalance in farming'. Give me a fucking break.

The logical endpoint of Frankfurt School philosophy (if you can call it a Philosophy) is coming into view.

[Eoin McLove]

Melia looks like a fuckwit.

[Caomhaoin]

Melia looks like a fuckwit.

He undoubtedly is.

[hellfire]

Ah, the stickering the most dangerous of all crime. He probably doesn't deserve jail for it. Probably does need a foot in the hole from a friend or family member. They could do a ceremony like the one where the Australian government tried to kick Bart Simpson in the hole.

[Caomhaoin]

I agree, it's a slippery slope giving lads the jail over what they believe, even if it is dumb or immoral selon le zeitgeist. They dressed it up in 'criminal damage' petticoats but that's the essence of it. 

And they give Tony Blair a knighthood. Yeah, him the lying war criminal.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Yeah, surprised at the Monarchy (of all institutions!) not being more discerning in who they bestow knighthoods on 

[astfgyl]

I don't know what his genuine initial motivations were in pushing to have the player disciplined for the (alleged?) slur, but when you roll the nature of his retraction in on top, it's hard to see any way to cut the story in which yer man doesn't come off as being a bit thick.

Ah yeah he's an eejit no doubt but it was the apology that did it for me. The state of his happy to learn was something to behold. Unless it was veiled sarcasm

[Eoin McLove]

I initially thought it was veiled sarcasm  but the more I read the more I realised he was desperately trying to save his own arse. It's the world we live in with social media being of utmost importance in people's lives,  and having absolute power over how they want the world to perceive them. Being out of fashion, being in any way against the grain in your (public) opinions is too risky. It is easy enough to sneer at it on one hand, but when people are losing their jobs for voicing the wrong opinions you can sympathise. A truly fucked up corner we have backed ourselves into here.