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Gemma not taking enforced retirement too well

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  • #2952
    Kimsang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,170 ✭✭✭Kimsang


    DubInMeath wrote: »
    Why are you afraid that your going to be attacked for your fashion sense?

    You always offer the most insightful take on things. Not only do you always keep topics 100% on topic, you always encourage debate with your insightful words of wisdom.


  • #2953
    AngryHippie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭AngryHippie


    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    What has that got to do with Gemma O'Doherty?

    Because she IS racist ?


  • #2954
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85,033 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Kimsang wrote: »
    I saw people call stephen a racist (overheal) and I asked could show me where stephen is being racist.

    I was told to check myself. That is why I'm focusing on this comment, which seems to be the source of him being called a racist, although as of yet no-one has confirmed this, because the people that are calling stephen a racist lack integrity.

    Could you or any that calls Stephen a racist please provide proof, since it is so demonstrable.
    Again it’s in this thread, and I even offered you a brief synopsis, so how is that lacking in integrity? You need two pages (probably more) of the thread containing the relevant conversation copied and pasted for you again? This is how message boards work: Go read it, rather than keep derailing this thread with your flamebaiting nonsense.


  • #2955
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85,033 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Kimsang wrote: »
    Anyone who sees this post as anything other than tongue-in-cheek is willfully ignorant to the point of having no integrity. This seems to be a lot of people.

    No true Scotsman...


  • #2956
    Kimsang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,170 ✭✭✭Kimsang


    Overheal wrote: »
    No true Scotsman...

    You have incorrectly conjured a logical fallacy.

    Allow me to inform you.

    You open called the post in question a racist at least twice that I saw. I challenged this statement and asked you for evidence. You said to go check myself, which I did, and found nothing of the sort. Do you disagree with any of this?

    Are you going to continue calling people racists without evidence to support your crap?

    This that you wrote for justification for calling him a racist only goes to show your bias. I know you are not alone, there are many of your ilk that have extended the term racism to include just about anyone you disagree with. But the whole lot of you are wrong, and shamefully so.
    Overheal wrote: »
    Uhm the context is all there. Maybe you missed the floundering conversation where he worked very hard to keep Brown countries out of his definition of the first world, while including numerous third world countries in his “first world” examples. Why derail the thread: if you’ve read the thread you’d know that yes he admits to being a proud racist and has argued for treating anyone not of Irish diaspora as second rate, especially as it pertains to seeking citizenship. You don’t have to look hard when the lad thinks South Africa is “culturally backwards” and SA immigrants too dissimilar to integrate into Irish culture, but somehow Koreans, who don’t even use the same alphabet, eat dogs, etc. are more favorable immigrants from a cultural compatibility perspective. But why am I rehashing this all for you? It’s all in this thread.


  • #2957
    MEGA BRO WOLF 5000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,480 ✭✭✭✭MEGA BRO WOLF 5000


    Read the last 20 or so pages and I just found out I’m a massive racist too, thanks overheal.

    Boards.ie code:

    If you’re not a radical leftist you’re a racist.

    If you don’t believe what I believe there’s no discussion, you’re wrong.

    I can’t give any examples you being racist but you are cos I said so.

    Context means nothing. Nothing.

    Oh and you’re the one defending antifa on another thread.

    Just ****ing wow.


  • #2958
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85,033 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Kimsang wrote: »
    You have incorrectly conjured a logical fallacy.

    Allow me to inform you.

    You open called the post in question a racist at least twice that I saw. I challenged this statement and asked you for evidence. You said to go check myself, which I did, and found nothing of the sort. Do you disagree with any of this?
    yes, I disagree with your inability to find the conversation in question, in the thread. You claim to have checked for yourself, and found nothing. Little over two weeks ago, 8/8. Definitely there. Stephen was going off about white supremacist theories (Great Replacement), and at about that time I engaged him re: one of his posts about “diaspora,” that conversation cemented for me at least that Stephen15 is a racist.
    This that you wrote for justification for calling him a racist only goes to show your bias.
    What bias do I have? Please, explain.
    I know you are not alone, there are many of your ilk that have extended the term racism to include just about anyone you disagree with. But the whole lot of you are wrong, and shamefully so.

    I happen to disagree with lots of people that aren’t racists, I would actually say the vast majority wouldn’t be. So, no, I don’t think your hypothesis has merit there.


  • #2959
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85,033 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Hunky Monster wrote: »
    Read the last 20 or so pages and I just found out I’m a massive racist too, thanks overheal.

    Boards.ie code:

    If you’re not a radical leftist you’re a racist.

    If you don’t believe what I believe there’s no discussion, you’re wrong.

    I can’t give any examples you being racist but you are cos I said so.

    Context means nothing. Nothing.

    Oh and you’re the one defending antifa on another thread.

    Just ****ing wow.
    What are you even talking about.


  • #2960
    Kimsang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,170 ✭✭✭Kimsang


    Overheal wrote: »
    What are you even talking about.

    You know how you can end this discussion? Give an example or provide proof of how he is a racist. You continue to supply red herrings and move the goalposts, but you already said it was demonstrably true. But you were clearly lying, as you've been given ample opportunity at this stage.
    that conversation cemented for me at least that Stephen15 is a racist.

    For me at least? What the hell does that mean, he's either a racist or he's not. Subjective bull**** is not allowed in defamation laws. "Your Honour I promise, for me at least it seemed he was a racist" You think this would hold up in a court of law?


  • #2961
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85,033 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Kimsang wrote: »
    You know how you can end this discussion? Give an example or provide proof of how he is a racist. You continue to supply red herrings and move the goalposts, but you already said it was demonstrably true. But you were clearly lying, as you've been given ample opportunity at this stage.
    See my previous post. I haven’t shifted any goalposts or supplied any red herrings. It is demonstrably true, you just have to get the thumb out and read the thread, it’s bad manners to jump late into a thread and be this obtuse about it.
    For me at least? What the hell does that mean, he's either a racist or he's not. Subjective bull**** is not allowed in defamation laws. "Your Honour I promise, for me at least it seemed he was a racist" You think this would hold up in a court of law?
    It means I speak (and think) for myself. I never said he “seemed like a racist” I’m telling you that the lad is a racist, demonstrated on this thread that you’re too lazy to go back and read. Until you do, I’m not sure what kind of constructive engagement you hope we would have.


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  • #2962
    Kimsang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,170 ✭✭✭Kimsang


    Overheal wrote: »
    See my previous post. I haven’t shifted any goalposts or supplied any red herrings. It is demonstrably true, you just have to get the thumb out and read the thread, it’s bad manners to jump late into a thread and be this obtuse about it.


    It means I speak (and think) for myself. I never said he “seemed like a racist” I’m telling you that the lad is a racist, demonstrated on this thread that you’re too lazy to go back and read. Until you do, I’m not sure what kind of constructive engagement you hope we would have.

    I have read this thread and you're talking bollocks.


  • #2963
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85,033 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Kimsang wrote: »
    I have read this thread and you're talking bollocks,

    Afraid not.


  • #2964
    Kimsang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,170 ✭✭✭Kimsang


    Overheal wrote: »
    Afraid not.

    Afraid so? wanna continue to play this game? You can end it by supplying proof.

    Its impossible for me to prove the negative that Stephen is not a racist, I suspect you know that and is why you are framing the discussion in this way.


  • #2965
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85,033 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Kimsang wrote: »
    Afraid so? wanna continue to play this game? You can end it by supplying proof.

    Its impossible for me to prove the negative that Stephen is not a racist, I suspect you know that and is why you are framing the discussion in this way.

    You are correct in saying it is impossible to prove a negative. Fortunately there isn’t a negative to prove. I have supplied more than enough information for you to get to the posts/conversation in this thread you claim to have read (but clearly haven’t). So you’ve lied to me, and insinuated I have no integrity: so I literally have no motivation to extend you the courtesy of a post#, link, or direct quotes to part of the thread. Just, all you have to do, is go do the thing you claimed to have done already: read the thread, or at the very least find the conversation using the information I already supplied to you in good faith.


  • #2966
    Kimsang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,170 ✭✭✭Kimsang


    Overheal wrote: »
    You are correct in saying it is impossible to prove a negative. Fortunately there isn’t a negative to prove. I have supplied more than enough information for you to get to the posts/conversation in this thread you claim to have read (but clearly haven’t). So you’ve lied to me, and insinuated I have no integrity: so I literally have no motivation to extend you the courtesy of a post#, link, or direct quotes to part of the thread. Just, all you have to do, is go do the thing you claimed to have done already: read the thread, or at the very least find the conversation using the information I already supplied to you in good faith.

    You just keep digging that hole don't you? The very first request I made to you
    Kimsang wrote: »
    Could you please direct me to evidence of this? It is quite the claim...
    was met with..
    Overheal wrote: »
    It’s in the thread.
    And since then not once have you supplied any evidence, except for weird spiels about immigration and brown countries.

    You could have ended this discussion about 300 posts ago, but no you continue to not supply evidence and keep digging a hole. The tactics you are employing is the reason people can't communicate and debate anymore. You can label whoever you like a racist and get away with it. Disgusting. I find people like you vile and disgusting.


  • #2967
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,102 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Kimsang wrote: »
    I have read this thread and you're talking bollocks.

    Perhaps then like Stephen you have a different understanding of what racism is to that of most people. Maybe its not us but you.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #2968
    batgoat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,423 ✭✭✭batgoat


    Kimsang wrote: »
    Afraid so? wanna continue to play this game? You can end it by supplying proof.

    Its impossible for me to prove the negative that Stephen is not a racist, I suspect you know that and is why you are framing the discussion in this way.

    He has adamantly claimed that the gear replacement is occurring. A conspiracy of the far right and white supremacists. He proudly supports the national party, which is led by a guy who attended Neo Nazi rallies. He has regularly said that he doesn't view certain people to be really Irish even though they're Irish citizens and have been born here. He only generally seems to apply that rule if they don't fit what an Irish person should look like in his vision.

    That's only off hand examples, there are many more.


  • #2969
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,917 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Kimsang wrote: »
    You always offer the most insightful take on things. Not only do you always keep topics 100% on topic, you always encourage debate with your insightful words of wisdom.

    Hmm I see that you decided to quote this post rather than my earlier one, where I pointed out that based on his previous posts Stephen would see you as someone who isn't Irish and that if Gemma and her ilk get their way then you will have to leave the country. If it dies happen make sure that the door doesn't hit you in the arse on the way out and best of luck where ever you end up.

    Also in terms of my reply post you quoted, it was actually pointing out that people get attacked for wearing an item of clothing related to their sexuality or religion by the type of idiots who follow her and support her. The same type of idiots who would happily kick the **** out of you and are the same type of idiots who attacked Sikhs after the September 11 attacks in the U.S. I guess that somethings just go over some people's heads.


  • #2970
    pablohoney87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,707 ✭✭✭pablohoney87


    Kimsang wrote: »
    Afraid so? wanna continue to play this game? You can end it by supplying proof.

    Its impossible for me to prove the negative that Stephen is not a racist, I suspect you know that and is why you are framing the discussion in this way.

    The great replacement theory is racist.

    He has echoed it numerous times across multiple threads. Proof enough?

    He only included white countries in his definition of "first world". Prood enough?


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  • #2971
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Jaysus lads, you have an honest description fro Stephen on his view but yet you are still running around with pitch forks trying to put a label on him and shunt him into a box.

    You should be happy that you have someone honest from an 'opposite' side to have a discussion with rather than trying to dial back anything he says by pigeonholing him.


  • #2972
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,513 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    Jaysus lads, you have an honest description fro Stephen on his view but yet you are still running around with pitch forks trying to put a label on him and shunt him into a box.

    You should be happy that you have someone honest from an 'opposite' side to have a discussion with rather than trying to dial back anything he says by pigeonholing him.

    when you espouse racist conspiracy theories like the great replacement dont be surprised when people call you racist.


  • #2973
    Stephen15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,907 ✭✭✭Stephen15


    batgoat wrote: »
    He has adamantly claimed that the gear replacement is occurring. A conspiracy of the far right and white supremacists. He proudly supports the national party, which is led by a guy who attended Neo Nazi rallies. He has regularly said that he doesn't view certain people to be really Irish even though they're Irish citizens and have been born here. He only generally seems to apply that rule if they don't fit what an Irish person should look like in his vision.

    That's only off hand examples, there are many more.

    The great replacement is just a name I've heard given to replacement migration which has already happened in places like Savile Town in Yorkshire and Molenbeek in Brussels and is happening here in places like Blanchardstown, Longford and Balbriggan.

    Saying supporting the National Party is racist is just stupid, Justin Barrett is an Irish Nationalist but I wouldn't call him a racist he attended a few neo nazi rallies years ago on a pro life message and he admitted in an interview he regrets it. Saying the National Party is racist is like saying Trump and all his supporters are racist.


  • #2974
    Il Fascista
    Closed Accounts Posts: 199 ✭✭Il Fascista


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    when you espouse racist conspiracy theories like the great replacement dont be surprised when people call you racist.

    The UN themselves use the term "replacement migration", so I can totally understand why some may jump to conclusions.


  • #2975
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,513 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Il Fascista wrote: »
    The UN themselves use the term "replacement migration", so I can totally understand why some may jump to conclusions.

    The great replacement theory is a white supremacy dog whistle and everybody who uses it is either a racist or thick beyond words. It is the motivation behind several mass murders.


  • #2976
    Stephen15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,907 ✭✭✭Stephen15


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    The great replacement theory is a white supremacy dog whistle and everybody who uses it is either a racist or thick beyond words. It is the motivation behind several mass murders.

    So are the UN racists?


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  • #2977
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,513 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Stephen15 wrote: »
    So are the UN racists?

    do they call it the great replacement?


  • #2978
    TaurenDruid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,082 ✭✭✭TaurenDruid


    Stephen15 wrote: »
    So are the UN racists?

    Are you the UN?


  • #2979
    Stephen15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,907 ✭✭✭Stephen15


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    do they call it the great replacement?

    The great replacement is just another name for replacement migration


  • #2980
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,513 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Stephen15 wrote: »
    The great replacement is just another name for replacement migration

    No its not. and thank you for clearing up which of the two groups i mentioned you belong in.


  • #2981
    SoundsRight
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 408 ✭✭SoundsRight


    Delighted they cleared that guy over the Grenfell tower effigy thing. We're starting to see a pushback against this idea that everything is racist if they say it's racist.


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  • #2982
    cookie1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,794 ✭✭✭cookie1977


    Stephen15 wrote: »
    Saying the National Party is racist is like saying Trump and all his supporters are racist.
    No, no it's not like saying that. You just cant say 1+1=3 Cop on to yourself.


  • #2983
    batgoat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,423 ✭✭✭batgoat


    Stephen15 wrote: »
    The great replacement is just another name for replacement migration

    You're lying Stephen and I would be astounded if you've never searched for the term..


  • #2984
    kunst nugget
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget


    SoundsRight wrote: »
    Delighted they cleared that guy over the Grenfell tower effigy thing. We're starting to see a pushback against this idea that everything is racist if they say it's racist.

    I had to google that. What a scumbag...


  • #2985
    ollkiller
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 877 ✭✭✭ollkiller


    Stephen15 wrote: »
    Saying supporting the National Party is racist is just stupid, Justin Barrett is an Irish Nationalist but I wouldn't call him a racist he attended a few neo nazi rallies years ago on a pro life message and he admitted in an interview he regrets it. Saying the National Party is racist is like saying Trump and all his supporters are racist.

    You're so right. Last time i wanted to get my pro life message across my first port of call was to research which neo nazi rally to attend. And there isn't a racist bone in our dear Irish patriot Justin's body. He is as pure as the white driven snow, which by coincidence is the only colour of a true Irish person.


  • #2986
    SoundsRight
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 408 ✭✭SoundsRight


    kunst nugget wrote: »
    I had to google that. What a scumbag...

    It was in bad taste, yes, but humour is subjective.


  • #2987
    cookie1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,794 ✭✭✭cookie1977


    ollkiller wrote: »
    You're so right. Last time i wanted to get my pro life message across my first port of call was to research which neo nazi rally to attend. And there isn't a racist bone in our dear Irish patriot Justin's body. He is as pure as the white driven snow, which be coincidence is the only colour of a true Irish person.
    Now that's sarcasm Stephen.


  • #2988
    cookie1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,794 ✭✭✭cookie1977


    SoundsRight wrote: »
    It was in bad taste, yes, but humour is subjective.
    Licking your plate at a fancy restaurant is bad taste. What he did was pretty sickening.


  • #2989
    SoundsRight
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 408 ✭✭SoundsRight


    cookie1977 wrote: »
    Licking your plate at a fancy restaurant is bad taste. What he did was pretty sickening.

    Making jokes about priests, the holocaust, slavery etc. is pretty sickening too. Doesn't mean you should get taken to court over it. Whatever idiots decided to waste taxpayers money bringing this to trial should be made pay it back.


  • #2990
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,302 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    SoundsRight wrote: »
    Delighted they cleared that guy over the Grenfell tower effigy thing. We're starting to see a pushback against this idea that everything is racist if they say it's racist.
    I wasnt aware that was being treated as a racist incident if its one I am thinking of...do you have a link that states that it was?
    It fell under a public order offence as far as I remember.


    It was vile btw.


  • #2991
    cookie1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,794 ✭✭✭cookie1977


    SoundsRight wrote: »
    Making jokes about priests, the holocaust, slavery etc. is pretty sickening too. Doesn't mean you should get taken to court over it. Whatever idiots decided to waste taxpayers money bringing this to trial should be made pay it back.
    It's actually called a public order offence of causing another person harassment, alarm or distress:
    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/06/grenfell-bonfire-video-police-search-house-as-five-men-questioned


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  • #2992
    kunst nugget
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget


    SoundsRight wrote: »
    Making jokes about priests, the holocaust, slavery etc. is pretty sickening too. Doesn't mean you should get taken to court over it. Whatever idiots decided to waste taxpayers money bringing this to trial should be made pay it back.

    I think there's a huge difference between telling an off-colour joke about any topic and creating a model of a tower and setting it on fire while filming it and laughing...


  • #2993
    SoundsRight
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 408 ✭✭SoundsRight


    gmisk wrote: »
    I wasnt aware that was being treated as a racist incident if its one I am thinking of...do you have a link that states that it was?
    It fell under a public order offence as far as I remember.


    It was vile btw.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-49435117

    He was charged with posting grossly offensive material online. Prosecution claimed it was racist. He said it was just a bit of banter between friends. Judge took the common sense approach. Hope he can put the ordeal behind him.


  • #2994
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85,033 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Kimsang wrote: »
    You just keep digging that hole don't you? The very first request I made to you

    was met with..

    And since then not once have you supplied any evidence, except for weird spiels about immigration and brown countries.

    You could have ended this discussion about 300 posts ago, but no you continue to not supply evidence and keep digging a hole. The tactics you are employing is the reason people can't communicate and debate anymore. You can label whoever you like a racist and get away with it. Disgusting. I find people like you vile and disgusting.

    What you mean to say is I told you exactly what was demonstrated and you chose to ignore it. You’re too lazy to use the search feature and want me to do your work for you at this point, and given your loaded agenda trying to attack me rather than find out what actually happened doesn’t inspire me to do the homework for you. As you can see other posters on the thread who have actually been involved in the thread know exactly what I’m talking about - it’s not us, it’s you. Go read the thread you disgusting and vile person without integrity.


  • #2995
    cookie1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,794 ✭✭✭cookie1977


    SoundsRight wrote: »
    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-49435117

    He was charged with posting grossly offensive material online. Prosecution claimed it was racist. He said it was just a bit of banter between friends. Judge took the common sense approach. Hope he can put the ordeal behind him.
    Dear oh dear oh dear. That's not correct. She couldn't be certain:
    "Acquitting Bussetti, she (the judge) said: “I cannot be sure the video relied on by the Crown is the one taken by the defendant.” She added that she could not be sure the figures on the tower were not meant to be the defendant and his friends, imagery that she said was “in colossal bad taste”.
    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/aug/22/paul-bussetti-court-effigy-grenfell-tower-bonfire-joke-about-own-friend-group-video


  • #2996
    kunst nugget
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget


    cookie1977 wrote: »
    Dear oh dear oh dear. That's not correct. She couldn't be certain:
    "Acquitting Bussetti, she (the judge) said: “I cannot be sure the video relied on by the Crown is the one taken by the defendant.” She added that she could not be sure the figures on the tower were not meant to be the defendant and his friends, imagery that she said was “in colossal bad taste”.
    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/aug/22/paul-bussetti-court-effigy-grenfell-tower-bonfire-joke-about-own-friend-group-video

    It really is the strangest case to pick as a victory for common sense...


  • #2997
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,302 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    SoundsRight wrote: »
    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-49435117

    He was charged with posting grossly offensive material online. Prosecution claimed it was racist. He said it was just a bit of banter between friends. Judge took the common sense approach. Hope he can put the ordeal behind him.
    :rolleyes:
    Seriously? Now you are definitely just trolling.


  • #2998
    SoundsRight
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 408 ✭✭SoundsRight


    Bad taste, even on a colossal scale, should not see you dragged to court. He really should have been granted anonymity like in rape cases.


  • #2999
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,302 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    The video might not be racist and he wasnt charged with that...it was a public order offence.

    By the way...lets be honest though he is a racist...
    The court previously heard a number of sickening racist messages included in Bussetti’s bad character material.

    In one, he calls the priest who married Prince Harry and Meghan Markle a ‘n*****’.

    One photo was said to have consisted of a black man with children playing on top of him.

    Prosecutor Philip Stott read the caption: "The male n****rpotamus, a rare sight to see, he will soon abandon them and leave them to the female.'

    He told the court that there was a picture of a gallows with the caption: "n****r swing set".

    The prosecutor previously said another image was a picture of black babies in a KFC bucket with the caption: 'How to get a black man to see his kids.'

    Images shared among friends by Bussetti also include KKK imagery, mocking Muslims and the 9/11 tragedy, referencing it to the game Angry Birds, changing the second word to Muslims.


  • #3000
    [Deleted User]
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    SoundsRight wrote: »
    Bad taste, even on a colossal scale, should not see you dragged to court. He really should have been granted anonymity like in rape cases.

    You really don't get how rape cases work do you, seems to be a common issue with you.


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  • #3001
    SoundsRight
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 408 ✭✭SoundsRight


    The fried chicken thing isn't racist though. They've recently put anti-knife meassages on snackboxes in England to deter them from stabbing one another. Is that racist too?


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