[quote=“Campion”]
COLOURED !!! Is my brown skin COLOURED ENOUGH FOR YOU
and thank you Carole x
Their is NO racism on this thread just a desc of an avatar.
I dont mind piercings and tatts, but thats another story.
…anyhoo this is a thread about “does racist jokes promote racism” : I think they do because you have to be racist to say them to begin with. I heard something about violent computer games making kids numb towards violence. Could racist jokes work in this way? Maybe not .
Darren
“Coloured”?!?!?!?! Seriously?!!
How the hell is a photo of someone with tattoos and piercings a stereotype of someone who’s black? (Or vice versa)
Seems to me that it gives an interesting and rather depressing insight into the mind of a person who thinks so!
[quote=“Campion”]
COLOURED??? (Some one pinch me. That can’t be for real) And how exactly is body art supposed to be stereotyping you?
My point stands that you are so racist there is probably not much point my wasting my time trying to explain it to you.
B
I find using the word “coloured” to describe someones ethnicity to be racist.
I think the habit died out in 1971 with Alf Garnett 
[quote=“Pat”]
It makes me laugh that a few weeks ago I looked up pictures of ugly people to put on my Facebook page to preten it was me on a bad MS day, and came across this gross picture. I added it to my file of ugly pictures. Then deleted it because it is horrible. I meant ugly but humorously. So, no thi is just a googled image of a revolting person. Pat [/quote]
You can’t judge by the way someone looks or choses to dress that they are a ‘revolting person’ can you?
The image is not ugly or revolting!
And ‘coloured’… good God!!! What decade are we living in!!!
I personally find it offensive that anyone would look at a photo of another human being and use the words ‘ugly’ or ‘revolting’!
It somehow encompasses everything that’s wrong with the world!
Pat x
Hey Darren,
I’ll try and explain it to you… it is racist because to describe someone based on their skin colour is differentiation. If the avatar had been of someone of Caucasion origins I am sure that Campion would not have said a white-tattood-woman covered in body piercings with her tongue stuck out…
When people use phyical differences to describe others they are setting them apart from themselves and continuing the age old problem of “them and us”. This is the very basis of the all the “isms” whether it be sexism or racism or other prejudices. A need to see oneself as apart from (and sadly usually better than) others causes so much misery when we are all just people. When all these differences are accepted and no longer seen as being worthy of comment then we can have acceptance rather than exclusion.
You know something really funny? Until Campion made her comment I had never even noticed that Fanny Adams avatar’s skin. I had noticed her tatts and piercings. Be a bit of a shame if I hadn’t since she had gone to so much trouble But for some people they can’t seem to see past the colour of a person’s skin or their sexuality or their religion or their sex or whether they are disabled or not.
Given we all have been on the receiving end of discrimination at some point for having a disability I find it a bit rich that some of us will perpetuate differentiation towards others based on their country of origin.
I hope this helps to clarify it for you Darren,
B
As i see it every questionaire i have filled in asks if im white brittish, singling me out as a white man. I have been called a male all my life and people call me a skin head (0.5 all over).
I see what you are all saying, but i have never been witness to racism. So im prob not the best to speak about it.
We are typing theese words out so you never get the “tone of voice” right.
To CLARIFY - l see a post titled Does Racist Humour Promote Racism - and there is the avatar !! l was quite innocently concerned that it would offend persons of a dark skin/coloured/black [whatever l say will be wrong to some of you] so you all jump in and turn it around and call me racist. Can’t win.
Reminds me of the person whose avatar was Sambo - she used it as her username as her friends nicknamed her Sambo. Some of the older members of the bored were concerned that it would give offence. But the young lady had not heard of it as being offensive.
Give over all of you - as usual you just have to go over the top.
F
[a busty blonde - who gets a fair amount of ribbing - just call me Dolly - and no l do not have dark roots]
I agree with you Pat B.
Some comments are sooo shocking.
Ursie
[quote=“Pat”] [quote=FannyAdams]
You can’t judge by the way someone looks or choses to dress that they are a ‘revolting person’ can you?
Yes!! [/quote]
You must really limit yourself from meeting nice and interesting people if you judge people by the way they look and dress.
Pat and Campion,
Ever heard the saying, Don’t judge a book by its cover???
B
[quote=“Pat”] [quote=FannyAdams]
[quote=Pat][quote=FannyAdams]
You can’t judge by the way someone looks or choses to dress that they are a ‘revolting person’ can you?
Yes!! [/quote]
You must really limit yourself from meeting nice and interesting people if you judge people by the way they look and dress.
[/quote] If you were intelligient you’d be lethal! I’m not judging you by the way you look or dress as this would be impossible having never seen you. I’m judging you by your revolting presentation of yourself on this forum, with your horrible avatar and your rudeness. That is not a cover. That is how you are presenting yourself. Pat[/quote]
Replying to posts - good or bad is not being rude, I’d be grateful if you could point out to me where I’ve been rude. Unlike you who tell me if I were intelligent I’d be lethal, that my presentation on this forum is revolting how polite and mannerly
You have judged my avatar as ‘horrible’, I think Elaine Davidson (the woman in the picture) is a beautful woman who has used her body as a canvas, a work of art. She is only horrible from your perspective.
[quote=“Pat”] [quote=FannyAdams]
[quote=Pat]
It makes me laugh that a few weeks ago I looked up pictures of ugly people to put on my Facebook page to preten it was me on a bad MS day, and came across this gross picture. I added it to my file of ugly pictures. Then deleted it because it is horrible. I meant ugly but humorously. So, no thi is just a googled image of a revolting person. Pat [/quote]
You can’t judge by the way someone looks or choses to dress that they are a ‘revolting person’ can you?
[/quote] Yes!![/quote]
I cannot begin to count the number of people that you must just have offended Pat.
Since when has what a person looks like said anything about how good a person they are; how beautiful their mind is?
My daughter has tattoos and piercings and dyes her hair bright colours. Would you turn your nose up at her too? Call her ugly and revolting? You would be unbelievably wrong. She is beautiful, in body, mind and soul. Unlike those who are so narrow-minded and superficial that they would judge her (and others) “revolting” because of the way she looks.
Thank you PatB.
I can forgive ‘coloured’ from someone who left school in the 60’s and was brought up on a diet of Alf Garnett maybe and never realised that times have changed and society has moved on. Like you I find it very hurtful and offensive that someone could see themselves so superior that they would describe another human being as ugly or revolting by looking a photo.
For anyone not understanding the previous post - Miss FA has put on her profile that her location is UR-ANUS - well she is getting on mine.
[quote=“Pat”] [quote=darren28]
I find using the word “coloured” to describe someones ethnicity to be racist.
[/quote] It’s only a word! I wish people would relax and laugh at each other! Remember the hilarious comedy ‘Love Thy Neighbour’ about a black and white feuding family living next to each other! THAT is blacks and whites having fun together and that is exactly ho things should be. This politically correct racist nonsense really gets on my nerves. I am not racist but have been called racist many times because I won’t conform to the lilly livered ‘do gooders’ constant chants of ‘you can’t say that because it’s racist’. They can bog off! Pat[/quote
I think the people who suffer any “ism” racism, sexism etc are the ones who can guide us in the usage of words. I get very cross when people sneer at political correctness because it’s so selfish. If certain terms and names offend people we shouldn’t use them. It’s ridiculous to expect people to “laugh at each other”. My son in law with his bright red hair has suffered bullying and taunts from being a little boy - if he dislikes being called a ginner then so be it. I don’t think he sees it as something to relax and laugh about. I wouldn’t intentionally hurt anyones feelings and more power to the “lilly livered do gooders” who stand up and say so.
Jane