timco
Well-known member
For what it is worth I think my OP is hard to follow as I deliberately blanked out normal words just in case someone took offence to them regardless of what was in my meaning. I was making a point at how difficult it is to say anything these days as someone may take offence at what you may be saying even if no offence was meant.
As the fable goes, If fools keep crying wolf when there is no wolf eventually no one will take no notice of them when there is a wolf.
Anyone can see racism (or discrimination for that matter of any kind) in anything if they have a mindset to think that way.
I think this kind of stupidity does the whole racism argument a disservice and does not help the cause.
My wife is Russian, she finds Alexander the Meerkat offensive, is she right to be offended? Should the advert be banned?
The original subject matter was "Build a bonfire song racist", no it is not it could be if you sung put the black chap on the top and the Chinese chap in the middle but no reference was made to the colour in the song.
The racism is in the minds of those who complained for certain if it was in the minds of those who sung it is another matter and one I think will never be proved. So more wasted time, more wasted money just so self important serial complainers can be satisfied and in turn our individual freedoms are reduced.
It is only a humble view point.
As the fable goes, If fools keep crying wolf when there is no wolf eventually no one will take no notice of them when there is a wolf.
Anyone can see racism (or discrimination for that matter of any kind) in anything if they have a mindset to think that way.
I think this kind of stupidity does the whole racism argument a disservice and does not help the cause.
My wife is Russian, she finds Alexander the Meerkat offensive, is she right to be offended? Should the advert be banned?
The original subject matter was "Build a bonfire song racist", no it is not it could be if you sung put the black chap on the top and the Chinese chap in the middle but no reference was made to the colour in the song.
The racism is in the minds of those who complained for certain if it was in the minds of those who sung it is another matter and one I think will never be proved. So more wasted time, more wasted money just so self important serial complainers can be satisfied and in turn our individual freedoms are reduced.
It is only a humble view point.