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Senior UK Police Officer faces the sack after saying the phrase 'whiter than white'

SharpshooterTom · 2018-09-19 12:42:15

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/09/14/senior-officer-faces-action-saying-whiter-white/ A bit harsh? I believe the term 'whiter than white' it's a literal word play on the actual colour white being clear and clean, used to imply that something is spotless, clear and clean. I guess other phrases with word play on…

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#62 20-09-2018 1:00am
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FTA69 wrote: »

"Black with people" comes from the Irish dubh le daoine, it isn't about race for God's sake.

And the poor Doyles (Ó Dubhghaill) haven't a hope: black & foreign!

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#63 20-09-2018 1:07am
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The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »

People who dont have white skin are people too. If there is a room full of people with non-white skin, you should just say it was full of people if you want to not be offensive. Do you really think if you said that about a room full of non-white people, you would not have been influenced by their skin colour ? And that some people would take it as offensive whether you did it consciously or not ?

This post is in another stratosphere of 'stupid'.

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#64 20-09-2018 8:33am
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This post is in another stratosphere of 'stupid'.

Nah, he/she's just being a blackguard!

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