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

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,365 ✭✭✭Alrigghtythen


    I'm blue in the face hearing this kind of nonsense


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,252 ✭✭✭FTA69


    The gas thing is that the London Met is a racist organisation with a history of that racism being institutionalised but when some poor black fella gets thrown down the stairs nobody gives a f*ck while this is all over the news.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭wexie


    FTA69 wrote: »
    when some poor black fella gets thrown down the stairs nobody gives a f*ck

    Hey! He tripped and fell!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭goose2005


    mikemac2 wrote: »
    Someone trying to blacken his good name

    probably some blackguard


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    Christ. It’s like criticism I heard before about the phrase ‘black with people’ as in “the room was black with people”. FFS, it has nothing to do with skin colour.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭The Rape of Lucretia


    Christ. It’s like criticism I heard before about the phrase ‘b***k with people’ as in “the room was b***k with people”. FFS, it has nothing to do with skin colour.

    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 ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,874 ✭✭✭Edgware


    I think the real issue here is how it takes 12 months to investigate three words.
    It was a complex investigation. These matters arent just black and white you know


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    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 ?

    Why did you add asterisks there? I didn’t have those in my post.

    It’s an old Irish phrase and the black part likely comes from the clothing mostly being black and other dark colours in those days. In a crowded place, the overall colour would be black. As Ireland even a century ago would be pretty much all white people, I think there was zero consideration of skin colour when using the phrase.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,562 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Beneath the station’s domed basilica the waiting room was black with people struggling for directions, for baggage and the search for relatives or agents. A train from Song’s home province had come in fifty minutes earlier. Seeing another northern train due he made his way along the elevated walkway to platform twenty-seven, reading faces as he went. A squad of over fifty young men disembarked, each with a kit bag carrying all they possessed. They were in good humour and already had work, with fares paid for them before they left home.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,252 ✭✭✭FTA69


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


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    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!


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    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'.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 568 ✭✭✭mikeymouse


    This post is in another stratosphere of 'stupid'.
    Nah, he/she's just being a blackguard!


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