Racial Equality

El Guapo! · 02-10-2010 3:50pm #1

Is it just me or is "racial equality" being forced down our throats lately??
I'm in no way racist and am all for equality but it seems that everywhere you turn theres a new ad campaign "highlighting racial awareness" or some shíte like that.
Or in every advertisment nowadays there's always a token black person or some guy in a turban with a big cheesy grin on his face shaking hands with a white guy.
There's a new ad campaign on all Dublin Bus shelters at the minute and every one of them is a picture of some "ethnic minority"
Yes yes, we all know Ireland is a multi-cultural society and welcomes everybody with equal opportunities blah blah blah, I have a dream, blah blah blah.....but do we really need to have these ad campaigns constantly shoved in our faces all the time??

I just want one day where I don't have somebody tell me to make friends with a muslim, or hug a buddhist or some shít.

Sorry its just something thats been bugging me for a while now.

/RANT

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strobe · 02-10-2010 3:54pm

Stool Borey Co

amacachi · 02-10-2010 3:54pm

Dean09 wrote: »

Is it just me or is "racial equality" being forced down our throats lately??
I'm in no way racist and am all for equality but it seems that everywhere you turn theres a new ad campaign "highlighting racial awareness" or some shíte like that.
Or in every advertisment nowadays there's always a token black person or some guy in a turban with a big cheesy grin on his face shaking hands with a white guy.
There's a new ad campaign on all Dublin Bus shelters at the minute and every one of them is a picture of some "ethnic minority"
Yes yes, we all know Ireland is a multi-cultural society and welcomes everybody with equal opportunities blah blah blah, I have a dream, blah blah blah.....but do we really need to have these ad campaigns constantly shoved in our faces all the time?? I just want one day where I don't have somebody tell me to make friends with a muslim, or hug a buddhist or some shít.

Sorry its just something thats been bugging me for a while now.

/RANT

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That really isn't any clue as to how this thread is going to go.

o1s1n · 02-10-2010 3:55pm

Stormfront servers temporarily down or something?

coffee_cake · 02-10-2010 4:15pm

Dean09 wrote: »

I'm in no way racist but

Uh huh

Chuchoter · 02-10-2010 4:18pm

Muslim people don't use buses too?

Black Swan · 02-10-2010 4:23pm

"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully" ...GW Bush

Red Hand · 02-10-2010 4:25pm

crayolastereo wrote: »

Muslim people don't use buses too?

They take the halal-o-craft.

I'll get me coat.

wonton · 02-10-2010 4:26pm

crayolastereo wrote: »

Muslim people don't use buses too?

why mention muslims?

never mind just seen it in the ops post, i was thinking it was something to do with some muslim and bus related incident i hadnt heard about.

arybvtcw0eolkf · 02-10-2010 4:35pm

o1s1n wrote: »

Stormfront servers temporarily down or something?

Sh*t, everytime I was the car a fvcking stormfront comes over.. bollox :mad:

SugarHigh · 02-10-2010 5:02pm

Anyone who isn't a racist has simply never been in a cinema full of black people.

prinz · 02-10-2010 5:06pm

I don't mind the examples cited in the OP, but I do get pissed off by the muppets on the other side who like to invent/see racism in every little thing. They are the reason the ads have to be like they are, because if they weren't some twat would read racism into everything. That's where the real issue lies tbh, a certain subset of society foaming at the mouth desperate to cry racism, xenophobia etc imagined a lot of the time.

amacachi · 02-10-2010 5:07pm

SugarHigh wrote: »

Anyone who isn't a racist has simply never been in a cinema full of black people.

I'm guessing like me you pay an American black woman to check everything before you do it and shouts "Don't go in there!" when an unsavoury situation may unfold?

Nodin · 02-10-2010 5:10pm

crayolastereo wrote: »

Muslim people don't use buses too?

Nope, they get the free Islamocars.

OPENROAD · 02-10-2010 5:17pm

feelingstressed wrote: »

I remember watching the Apprentice, the one with Alan Sugar

Watch it sometime, there will always be a black and asian candidate, always.
Well if that's a large demographic in the UK so fair enough.

In Series 1, Saira Khan who was an incredibly confident person and made it to the final even called herself a token candidate.

The OP made a point, why does posters jump in and not even discuss it or not even read it like this

OP, you probably should have started this thread in Humanities

Which would suggest that she was the only ethnic minority candidate(hate that expression-she is English by the way) in that series, which she wasn't, so how can she be a token candidate? Remember Tim(who won) and Raj(who got to the latter stages)? Maybe she was referring to the fact that she was a woman?

Nodin · 02-10-2010 5:18pm

feelingstressed wrote: »

I remember watching the Apprentice, the one with Alan Sugar

Watch it sometime, there will always be a black and asian candidate, always.
Well if that's a large demographic in the UK so fair enough.

In Series 1, Saira Khan who was an incredibly confident person and made it to the final even called herself a token candidate.

The OP made a point, why does posters jump in and not even discuss it or not even read it like this

OP, you probably should have started this thread in Humanities

Alan Sugars Jewish. Does that mean he's token too?

OPENROAD · 02-10-2010 5:20pm

Nodin wrote: »

Alan Sugars Jewish. Does that mean he's token too?

James Max who made it to the semi final is also Jewish

Nodin · 02-10-2010 5:23pm

OPENROAD wrote: »

James Max who made it to the semi final is also Jewish

....two token Jews???? Well holy jaysus....

Social Disorder · 02-10-2010 5:23pm

amacachi wrote: »

I'm guessing like me you pay an American black woman to check everything before you do it and shouts "Don't go in there!" when an unsavoury situation may unfold?

You pay her fairly I assume :mad:

Tchaikovsky · 02-10-2010 5:24pm

There are so many minorities at my water park.

ILA · 02-10-2010 5:26pm

You're only noticing this recently?!?

argonaut · 02-10-2010 5:27pm

"I'm not racist, but..."

citizen_p · 02-10-2010 5:41pm

the thing i really hate about all this sexual/ racial equality is when they put it in historical films which also have modern day political corectness.
these were days when there was no such thing as war crimes, women were second class citizens and most coloured people in westren europe were slaves

coffee_cake · 02-10-2010 5:54pm

Mousey- wrote: »

the thing i really hate about all this sexual/ racial equality is when they put it in historical films which also have modern day political corectness.
these were days when there was no such thing as war crimes, women were second class citizens and most coloured people in westren europe were slaves

Like when they had a black 20 year old as some kinda reverend mother in a robin hood ep?

I know nobody sees the difference now but geez!

citizen_p · 02-10-2010 6:07pm

bluewolf wrote: »

Like when they had a black 20 year old as some kinda reverend mother in a robin hood ep?
I know nobody sees the difference now but geez!

like in the new robin hood with russel crow

when the kids that stole the grain arent beaten to a pulp when they are found

or in hamlet which is set in the 1600s in denmark, and has several coloured people in prominent positions (danish envoys, generals, lords and ladys )

they are just two that spring to mind as i seen them recently

Nodin · 02-10-2010 6:18pm

bluewolf wrote: »

Like when they had a black 20 year old as some kinda reverend mother in a robin hood ep?
I know nobody sees the difference now but geez!

African blood has run through British veins since at least the 18th century and perhaps since Roman times, a study suggests.
A set of typically West African genes has been found in seven white British men who share the same rare surname, allowing scientists to trace an African heritage that none had any idea he shared.
The African Y chromosome — the packet of genetic material passed down through the male line — probably originated from a man from Senegal or Guinea-Bissau who lived in Yorkshire in the early 18th century and was inherited by his male descendants.
It is even possible that the line goes back farther still, to Roman soldiers from North Africa posted to Hadrian’s Wall 1,800 years ago. This “division of Moors”, which included the earliest known Africans in Britain, included recruits from what is now Morocco

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1295724.ece

KeithAFC · 02-10-2010 6:19pm

Dean09 wrote: »

Is it just me or is "racial equality" being forced down our throats lately??
I'm in no way racist and am all for equality but it seems that everywhere you turn theres a new ad campaign "highlighting racial awareness" or some shíte like that.
Or in every advertisment nowadays there's always a token black person or some guy in a turban with a big cheesy grin on his face shaking hands with a white guy.
There's a new ad campaign on all Dublin Bus shelters at the minute and every one of them is a picture of some "ethnic minority"
Yes yes, we all know Ireland is a multi-cultural society and welcomes everybody with equal opportunities blah blah blah, I have a dream, blah blah blah.....but do we really need to have these ad campaigns constantly shoved in our faces all the time?? I just want one day where I don't have somebody tell me to make friends with a muslim, or hug a buddhist or some shít.

Sorry its just something thats been bugging me for a while now.

/RANT

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Does the true word of Equality actually even exist? I mean, real equality. Everyone being equal? Nope, its doesn't.

Donkey Oaty · 02-10-2010 6:20pm

There were black people in Britain before the English.

Astonishing but true.

Johro · 02-10-2010 6:25pm

Dean09 wrote: »

Is it just me or is "racial equality" being forced down our throats lately??
I'm in no way racist and am all for equality but it seems that everywhere you turn theres a new ad campaign "highlighting racial awareness" or some shíte like that.
Or in every advertisment nowadays there's always a token black person or some guy in a turban with a big cheesy grin on his face shaking hands with a white guy.
There's a new ad campaign on all Dublin Bus shelters at the minute and every one of them is a picture of some "ethnic minority"
Yes yes, we all know Ireland is a multi-cultural society and welcomes everybody with equal opportunities blah blah blah, I have a dream, blah blah blah.....but do we really need to have these ad campaigns constantly shoved in our faces all the time?? I just want one day where I don't have somebody tell me to make friends with a muslim, or hug a buddhist or some shít.

Sorry its just something thats been bugging me for a while now.

/RANT

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Jeez that's f#ckin awful man.. I don't know how you cope.

Killer Pigeon · 02-10-2010 6:29pm

I think you're right OP. These forced racial equality ethics have got me soooo angry. Sometimes I think that all the racially pure white Irish people should just get together and, with help from the authorities, put all the none-white, English and Eastern Europeans (who are living in Ireland) and all the racially impure population into a massive concentration camp somewhere in Mayo. We should enslave them and make them build a large array of gas chambers and crematoriums adjacent to the camp. After that we should shove them all in them and gas them to hell and burn their bodies in the crematoriums. Then in the end we'll drop their ashes over Wales.

*attempt at comedy fails epically and realises tastelessness, walks away slowly*

I do think we should ban the burka though.

Donkey Oaty · 02-10-2010 6:33pm

Johro wrote: »

Jeez that's f#ckin awful man.. I don't know how you cope.

I kind of understand how he feels.

We don't need corporate institutions to lecture us about racial awareness, and some of the campaigns, however well meaning, can have a very negative result.

Let them lead by example, not through advertising.

Racial Equality

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