The PC and Perpetually Offended Brigade

[Eoin McLove]

Black is both a colour and an absence of colour, depending on which framework you are using. The description in physics makes sense in a discussion about physics, but to pretend that the colour of the majority of people who use this forum's wardrobe is not a colour on a technicality is to play the same kind of word games that lead us to war over who can use which toilet. Everything is everything. Everything is nothing.

[Born of Fire]

Ah now, kettles be calling pots people of colour

  , nice.
The irony is that black isn't actually a colour, its the absence of colour.
One would have thought if any race were to be referred to as "of colour" it would be white people, what with the variety of hair colour, eye colour,  skin tone and white being an actual fucking colour.
But sure lets not let reality or common sense get in the way of a good label.

"Black is the absence of colour in my true loves hair" doesn't have quite the same ring to it

[Caomhaoin]

You refer to black Americans as 'African American' on a consistent basis. They are no more African than they are the man on the moon. Elon Musk is an African American.

[Caomhaoin]

Ah now, kettles be calling pots people of colour

Sure lookit, yer man is up until 4am sniffing the soma. Intelligence is no protection from the mind virus he's contracted.


  , nice.
The irony is that black isn't actually a colour, its the absence of colour.
One would have thought if any race were to be referred to as "of colour" it would be white people, what with the variety of hair colour, eye colour,  skin tone and white being an actual fucking colour.
But sure lets not let reality or common sense get in the way of a good label.

[son of the Morrigan]

Fuck me its hard to have a bit of craic on this Forum!- Its a joke ye clowns.
Bunch of fucking pedants.
BSC was raving about "spectrum" above - hence the joke.
my tee shirts are actually really, really, really dark blue and I always refer to blackbirds as African American birds so as not to offend.

[son of the Morrigan]

Ah now, kettles be calling pots people of colour

Sure lookit, yer man is up until 4am sniffing the soma. Intelligence is no protection from the mind virus he's contracted.


  , nice.
The irony is that black isn't actually a colour, its the absence of colour.
One would have thought if any race were to be referred to as "of colour" it would be white people, what with the variety of hair colour, eye colour,  skin tone and white being an actual fucking colour.
But sure lets not let reality or common sense get in the way of a good label.

Sometimes an idea is so stupid only an intellectual can understand it.

[Caomhaoin]

BSC is the MSNBC of the forum. Let him off but obviously don't take what he says seriously.

[Caomhaoin]

Removed for pointless goading.

[Carnage]

OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE.

[Caomhaoin]

OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE.

 

Ah you're dead right. In real life I just watch the telly and go to the gym

[Mower Liberation Front]

You refer to black Americans as 'African American' on a consistent basis. They are no more African than they are the man on the moon. Elon Musk is an African American.

I remember seeing an interview years ago with Johnny Oduya, and the reporter asked him what it was like being an African-American player in the NHL. His reply: "I'm Swedish."

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

And do ye know that in China, Chinese food is just called food? 

I was just taking the piss out of Morrigan; the aul "When you get angry you turn red, when you get sick, you turn green...but you call us colored?" type thing is a pretty thread bare trope at this stage, see also Steve Beko in Cry Freedom.

[astfgyl]

I see the refugee loving government have allowed the tent city to be bulldozed and shipped them all out of town for the optics in time for Paddy's Day. Now as you all know, I'm of the opinion that those lads shouldn't have been there in the first place but leaving them there until the day before the shit parade is pretty fuckin bleak whatever way you cut it.

Anyway, so it seems that the lads weren't happy with their new accommodation and have made their way walking back to the city centre, where they will find their tents and any belongings left behind have been removed.

And then the plot thickened another bit in the last couple of hours when some members of the Virgin Media news team appear to be giving them lifts back into town in their cars, as evidenced by some videos taken by the locals.

I'm keeping an eye on the VM news bit because I'm not 100 percent on it, but if it does turn out to be true it's very odd indeed.

Anyway, the whole episode seems to have caused plenty of offence in all corners of the eternal bout

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Genuine question, but is there some kind of transparency or conflict of interests or something that Virgin Media staff would need to be aware of in giving people lifts?

[astfgyl]

Genuine question, but is there some kind of transparency or conflict of interests or something that Virgin Media staff would need to be aware of in giving people lifts?

Ah lad ffs