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Leader of country caught up in blackface controversy.

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    #212
    notobtuse
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    Matt Barrett wrote: »
    You mean the news?
    Ah pal... It's 'brown face' because people from the region are referred to as brown skinned, not black.
    With an afro, singing the Banana Boat song?

    Day-O?

    PRC_85630373.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&zoom=1&resize=644%2C338&ssl=1

    You can ignorantly accuse me of "whataboutism," but what it really is involves identifying similar scenarios in order to see if it holds up when the shoe is on the other foot!



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    #213
    BDI
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    Outlaw Pete wrote: »
    I know this kinda stuff has got worse, but it's not entirely knew as I remember in the late 90's or early 00's at school one day someone started joking about how Pool was racist cause the white ball dominates all the colours and when we asked them were they serious, they said 'Nah' that they had seen it or heard it or something, can't remember exactly, maybe it was film.

    It was a film, boyz in the hood or one of the many parodies. Or many the film about the pizza shop that hired the black guy and something kicked off in the end because something the Italians did.

    Revolution will not be televised?/ Fight the power?


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    #214
    notobtuse
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    Headline… news at 11. Elizabeth Warren Admits To Wearing Paleface At College Costume Party.

    (Relax, it’s from The Babylon Bee… The right’s version of the left’s The Onion, both of which are satirical websites)

    You can ignorantly accuse me of "whataboutism," but what it really is involves identifying similar scenarios in order to see if it holds up when the shoe is on the other foot!



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    #215
    Forty Seven
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    notobtuse wrote: »
    Matt Barrett wrote: »
    You mean the news?
    Ah pal... It's 'brown face' because people from the region are referred to as brown skinned, not black.
    With an afro, singing the Banana Boat song?

    Day-O?

    Alibaba and his forty fyffes.


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    #216
    BDI
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    So if you wanted to Dress up as your favourite film stars, obviously the cool runnings guys, would it be acceptable to be 4 lads in Jamaica bobsleigh suits pushing a bobsleigh but with no make up on?


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    #217
    Danzy
    Registered Users Posts: 13,291 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    He wasnt a real socialist / it wasnt real socialism etc.... its either myth or messiah with these people7

    He would be well to the right of FG or the Tories on economics. The parts of that, that the modern Left are comfortable about he is very vocal on.

    He uses the push to conformity and righteous language of the modern left.

    Through in some social stuff that very few have a problem with.


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    #218
    notobtuse
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    BDI wrote: »
    So if you wanted to Dress up as your favourite film stars, obviously the cool runnings guys, would it be acceptable to be 4 lads in Jamaica bobsleigh suits pushing a bobsleigh but with no make up on?

    Good heavens... Not acceptable at all to be in blackface, EVER! And you would be accused of being a religious nut because there's no atheists at the top of a bobsled run.

    You can ignorantly accuse me of "whataboutism," but what it really is involves identifying similar scenarios in order to see if it holds up when the shoe is on the other foot!



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    #219
    jace_da_face
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    Donald Trump wrote: »
    I've just realised that our coal man was an awful racist

    Ah … God bless the Dutch. Black Pete is now Sooty Pete from coming down the chimney. Nothing to do with his Moorish heritage.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBLBxb29maw


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    #220
    Pawwed Rig
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    BDI wrote: »
    So if you wanted to Dress up as your favourite film stars, obviously the cool runnings guys, would it be acceptable to be 4 lads in Jamaica bobsleigh suits pushing a bobsleigh but with no make up on?

    Dressing up as Michael Jackson would be ok I guess.
    Is is still ok for a man to dress up as a woman or is that sexual appropriation? Whose for a protest at the mini marathon?


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    #221
    James Brown
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    notobtuse wrote: »
    With an afro, singing the Banana Boat song?

    Day-O?

    PRC_85630373.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&zoom=1&resize=644%2C338&ssl=1

    That would be black face, yes.


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    #222
    BDI
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    Holy ****, I’m just seeing now he didn’t just do it once or twice,
    Turns out it was his thing. Even looks like a minstrel in one of them.


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    #223
    James Brown
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    notobtuse wrote: »
    Headline… news at 11. Elizabeth Warren Admits To Wearing Paleface At College Costume Party.

    (Relax, it’s from The Babylon Bee… The right’s version of the left’s The Onion, both of which are satirical websites)

    Boss, Pocahontas, as Trump calls her, is relevant how? You really are pushing this worldwide left and right war aren't you? Liz and Justin would be right wing conservatives in my view. The world is complicated, especially when you try compare completely different countries and forms of government in your crusade.


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    #224
    Danzy
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    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    Seriously he should have just told those idiots to get a life, nobody should have to deal with that level of stupidity.

    Anyone that uses the phrase 'safe space' should just lock themselves in a room and never come out again.

    The richer and more elite the University, the more obnoxious the activist students.

    The pricks are going to do wreck to the democratic party in a few years time, already starting.


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    #225
    notobtuse
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    Matt Barrett wrote: »
    Boss, Pocahontas, as Trump calls her, is relevant how?
    Cultural appropriation. We’re all forced to bow to the god of PC nonsense, now.

    You can ignorantly accuse me of "whataboutism," but what it really is involves identifying similar scenarios in order to see if it holds up when the shoe is on the other foot!



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    #226
    notobtuse
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    Danzy wrote: »
    The richer and more elite the University, the more obnoxious the activist students.

    The pricks are going to do wreck to the democratic party in a few years time, already starting.
    Word!

    You can ignorantly accuse me of "whataboutism," but what it really is involves identifying similar scenarios in order to see if it holds up when the shoe is on the other foot!



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    #227
    James Brown
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    notobtuse wrote: »
    Cultural appropriation. We’re all forced to bow to the god of PC nonsense, now.

    Warren has nothing to do with Trudeau or any people you view as left on the rest of Earth.
    Black face hasn't been acceptable for decades. Cultural appropriation is for the culture to decide. Again I know it's tough but if you're in a minority getting treated pretty bad historically and today and all of a sudden your culture is cool and the white majority...y'know what, if you can't figure it out don't worry about it.


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    #228
    Bob Harris
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    Blackface = bullshit.

    Really no different to young ones slapping tan on themselves.


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    #229
    Portsalon
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    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    That's pretty sad tbh.

    How are these people going to survive in the real world without their safe space?

    They'll probably all get jobs moderating the more sensitive Boards.ie fora.


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    #230
    Forty Seven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 280 ✭✭Forty Seven


    Matt Barrett wrote: »
    notobtuse wrote: »
    Cultural appropriation. We’re all forced to bow to the god of PC nonsense, now.

    Warren has nothing to do with Trudeau or any people you view as left on the rest of Earth.
    Black face hasn't been acceptable for decades. Cultural appropriation is for the culture to decide. Again I know it's tough but if you're in a minority getting treated pretty bad historically and today and all of a sudden your culture is cool and the white majority...y'know what, if you can't figure it out don't worry about it.

    Racism is not a white phenomena. Racism is in every race.


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    #231
    pq0n1ct4ve8zf5
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    jace_da_face wrote: »
    Ah … God bless the Dutch. Black Pete is now Sooty Pete from coming down the chimney. Nothing to do with his Moorish heritage.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBLBxb29maw

    Thank god that video is in the thread, every time this comes up on boards it can be easy to forget how normal adults generally respond to blackface.

    Anyways, shame on Trudeau. One thing after another with him. Could well lose him the election.


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    #232
    notobtuse
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    Matt Barrett wrote: »
    Warren has nothing to do with Trudeau or any people you view as left on the rest of Earth.
    Black face hasn't been acceptable for decades. Cultural appropriation is for the culture to decide. Again I know it's tough but if you're in a minority getting treated pretty bad historically and today and all of a sudden your culture is cool and the white majority...y'know what, if you can't figure it out don't worry about it.
    “No Irish Need Apply”

    For over a hundred years the Irish were despised in the US. Now it seems everyone here in the US dresses up in silly costumes, green hair and all... perceived to be caricatures of the Irish on Saint Patrick’s day and get drunk. Having both US and Irish citizenship, I don’t take issue with any of it.

    You can ignorantly accuse me of "whataboutism," but what it really is involves identifying similar scenarios in order to see if it holds up when the shoe is on the other foot!



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    #233
    GooglePlus
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    He's come out to say "layers of privilege" stopped him from seeing it as racist.

    Nice buzz line to appease the masses.


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    #234
    Pawwed Rig
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    Anahi Salmon Superpower wrote: »
    Anyways, shame on Trudeau. One thing after another with him. Could well lose him the election.

    I don't disagree with you but is it modern thought? Did people have the same opinion 20 years ago? My generation was pretty much insulated from this kind of thing in Ireland but I am guessing Canada of the late 90s was more multicultural than maybe Ireland was. On the fence on this tbh and am no fan of Trudeau.


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    #235
    Infini
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    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    Seriously he should have just told those idiots to get a life, nobody should have to deal with that level of stupidity.

    Anyone that uses the phrase 'safe space' should just lock themselves in a room and never come out again.

    It's idiots like them that fuel the likes of Trump. "Safe Space" = Incapable of dealing with shít. They're looking to blame others instead of rising above problems and are just as toxic as the idiots on the far right only these represent the idiocy of the far left.


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    #236
    Danzy
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    GooglePlus wrote: »
    He's come out to say "layers of privilege" stopped him from seeing it as racist.

    Nice buzz line to appease the masses.

    Jesus h Christ but how rich and privileged must one be to come out with that as a line.


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    #237
    notobtuse
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    Danzy wrote: »
    Jesus h Christ but how rich and privileged must one be to come out with that as a line.
    It was polled at being woke approved.

    You can ignorantly accuse me of "whataboutism," but what it really is involves identifying similar scenarios in order to see if it holds up when the shoe is on the other foot!



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    #238
    HailSatan
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    BDI wrote: »
    So if you wanted to Dress up as your favourite film stars, obviously the cool runnings guys, would it be acceptable to be 4 lads in Jamaica bobsleigh suits pushing a bobsleigh but with no make up on?


    There was major hoo hah about that on Twitter a few years back. A POC saw a stag, possibly English, dressed as cool running crew in Dublin and started ranting about the racist Irish.


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    #239
    Danzy
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    notobtuse wrote: »
    It was polled at being woke approved.

    Probably, which is dangerous politically, not everyone is rich enough to believe in white privilege.


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    #240
    HailSatan
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    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin//showthread.php?t=2057623979

    64 pages on mobile. Mother of God.

    partyjungle wrote: »
    She goes on to say "Not even the fake Jews are this dense."

    Whats that supposed to mean?

    What indeed does this mean? Seems strange to be ranting about blackface then launching into "even fake Jews aren't this dense"


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    #241
    Subcomandante Marcos
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    Hunky Monster wrote: »
    No, not Donald.

    Your liberal hero, the guy who brought you matching socks, daily orange man bad reports and the word peoplekind....

    Itsssss Leo’s best bud, Justin!

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49749851

    You realise, that by European standards, Trudeau is right of the British conservative party?

    He's about as liberal as Michael McDowell.

    He's also an absolute bell end.


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