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Enda Kenny again

  • 01-02-2004 12:54pm
    #1
    GuanYin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,552 ✭✭✭✭


    It seems Enda Kenny has made another public racist comment.

    Apparently he believes that its hard to get votes from immigrants as "they all look the same"!

    :rolleyes:


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  • #2
    sceptre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,608 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    Here's a link. The reference is at the end. If I read it correctly the comment was purportedly made on November 19 and one of the media picked up on this, presumably because they're not in the habit of going to TCD YFG meetings.

    I'm rather appalled if this is true. The earlier comment (the joke making reference to Patrice Lumumba) I wasn't all that worried about as there were a number of different interpretations of the joke and I gave the guy the benefit of the doubt. (as an aside one of Lumumba's sons is living in Tallaght with his seven children, I'd be interested to hear what he thought of it). This however, relatively unverified as it is, is worrying. Kenny seems to be one of his party's worst enemies at times - assuming this is true, this is clearly one of those times.


  • #3
    GuanYin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,552 ✭✭✭✭GuanYin


    Originally posted by sceptre
    Kenny seems to be one of his party's worst enemies at times - assuming this is true, this is clearly one of those times.

    Well the Indo picked up on it too.

    He seems to be indicating that he didn't mean it in the context everyone took it up in. I'm trying to figure out what way he could have meant it.


  • #4
    Cork
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,924 ✭✭✭Cork


    Originally posted by syke
    It seems Enda Kenny has made another public racist comment.

    Apparently he believes that its hard to get votes from immigrants as "they all look the same"!

    :rolleyes:

    So what?

    We are living in a world that political correctness is gone mad.

    Enda Kenny has not set the political stage alight. I think that - if he stops FG's national decline - he'd be doing an excellant job.

    It seems to be silly season in the media - digging up dirt.

    It is amazing how Irish media standards have dropped.


  • #5
    flogen
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,247 Mod ✭✭✭✭flogen


    sorry, but irish media standards have not dropped, the fact is the leader of the 'opposition' has made an apparently racist statement, if its not racist it is at least amazingly ignorant and generalised.

    However, you are right in saying this is not the worst thing in the world, its still worth reporting, though.

    Flogen


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