Tesco's offensive card

Wester wrote: »

Seriously, adults slag off others about having red hair! Well the last time anyone slagged me about having red hair I was about five. Just goes to show the mentality some people have. Mind you, it's probably a class thing. The under classes tend to ape anything the English do, maybe out of some sense of inferiority or lack of education, probably both. Hence, some of the posts on here.

geeeeze.

pretentious much?

"the under classes"

in all fairness now.

Kimia wrote: »

I don't know if it applies to class per se. D4 heads are equally, if not more likely to be ignorant and laugh like drains at other people being bullied.

It does however show low intelligence and most certainly a lack of empathy. I just don't understand why you'd try to make someone feel bad about themselves on purpose for the sole reason of getting a laugh out of your cronies.

thing is lots of people mean it as a harmless joke, but people take things to heart and take it personally.

tbh i think the comparisons to racism are ott.

it's not like red haired people had to have demonstrations to have the same rights as black, brown, or blond haired people is it?

A_Leahy wrote: »

sense of inferiority or lack of education, probably both'

Sense of inferiority, not inferiority. And by the underclass I don't mean working class, who get unfairly labeled as dole scroungers etc., usually by the media. I mean a particular type of individual, poorly educated, lacking in any sense of self-belief, is typically at the pub door at opening time and still there at lock-up, and generally prone to lashing out at anything perceived as different to themselves. Yeah I was probably overly harsh in my original comments but I find it difficult to comprehend the mentality of someone who as an adult would persist in resorting to school-yard taunts.

GREENWORLD wrote: »

This is a British card. Look at the British tabloids, their newspapers, (the tabloids), they rip people to shreds. Part of their culture seems to be about putting people down and tearing them apart. They follow their celebrities and dig up as much dirt on them as they can. I believe because red hair is not as common over there as it is in Ireland, children with red hair are singled out. Because they are running out of things to pick on people about in school, like their size, their colour etc., the red-heads are an easy target. The kids know they will get in trouble for racisism remarks etc. So now it's the turn of the red heads. I think the culture of bullying is much worse in the UK, look at the amounts of stabbings etc. that take place over there.

You're not seriously comparing taking the mick out of someone's hair colour to murder are you?
Sorry to go off-topic, but just for the record:

"MURDER rates in Dublin are now the sixth highest in Europe.
Only five other European capitals have higher homicide levels in the latest United Nations league table.
Dublin comes four places ahead of London, which ranks 10th in the list.
And according to the figures, Ireland as a whole is 10th in Europe, with a worse record for violent deaths than England and Wales. "

Ripping it out of ginger people is amazingly common in England, well noticed. I can't be certain, but I'd guess it started as some sort of 'naughty rebellion' against the ginger monarchy, maybe in Elizabethan times?
That's another thing. To compare the jibes to racism against black or asian people is abso-fuckinglutely ridiculous. As I said, half the monarchy in this country have been ginger, they're hardly an underclass.

I've been teased for wearing glasses, I've been teased for having braces, I've been teased for the way I look. Hundreds of times. Do I care? Do I fuck.

As a redhead, I find the "racism" analogy absurd. Was I slagged a few times in the school yard for having red hair? Yeah. Was I transported from a "ginger" continent to work as a slave on a farm in the new world or told to sit at the back of the bus because of my hair colour? Clearly not. Slagging redheads is not clever, but nor is it racist.

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