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Just seen a strange case of blatant racism on the bus home!

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  • 18-05-2013 12:51pm
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    C.ENGSTUDENT
    Registered Users Posts: 25 ✭


    Hi, I was just wondering if anyone else has experienced a similar encounter with open racism in front of everyone.

    On the bus coming home yesterday evening, I was waiting to get off and I was queuing behind a couple that spoke with Southern African accents, one of them chats to the driver about there travel around Europe.

    Then drops this bombshell "Yeah I like Ireland, not too many black people eh?"
    I was really shocked that he said it, so to was the driver who spoke how great black people like Phil Lynott were in reply to him. Then the backpacker said "well I don't like em".

    It happened so quickly in a bus full of people, he wasn't joking, he was serious.


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    #2
    Skid X
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    I'm not saying every white South African is racist, but the few I have met were.


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    Esoteric_
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    I'd have asked them have they met every black person in the world, and if not, how can they judge all black people as one.


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    Doom
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    Offer them a bottle of piss. Tell them its a local drink made by arian white only Irish people.


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    #5
    Meritocracy Wins
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    Racist South Africans, well I never. Used to work with a good few, they were all racist just some hid it better than most. Ireland is also full of Irish racists, some hide it better than others.


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    mfceiling
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    They are south african OP.

    What did you expext from them?


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    DrumSteve
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    Ah afrikaaners aint the worst, they just lack a filter between their brain and mouth.


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    johnayo
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    DrumSteve wrote: »
    Ah afrikaaners aint the worst, they just lack a filter between their brain and mouth.

    In fairness, that's a fairly racist comment.


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    Aint Eazy Being Cheezy
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    Oh good, a racism thread...


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    FearDark
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    In my experience living and working with South Africans they are the most racist bunch I have ever come across.


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    DrumSteve
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    johnayo wrote: »
    In fairness, that's a fairly racist comment.

    Racist? How?

    I prefer the term ethnic criticism bill.


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    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    He'd have had a nervous breakdown on the Ongar bus!.


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    yizorselves
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    But the South African was dead right!

    There isnt as many black people as compared to other races :D But there are plenty, you just gotta look real close at passing cars


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    C.ENGSTUDENT
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    mfceiling wrote: »
    They are south african OP.

    What did you expext from them?

    I expected them to be normal


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    The Backwards Man
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    I like Ireland too. There's not that many white South Africans here.


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    jonsnow
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    fair play to that bus driver for not just shrugging it off


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    Syllabus
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    johnayo wrote: »
    In fairness, that's a fairly racist comment.

    Its their opinion

    If they said they didnt like corkoians(sp) would you say the same? Or they said i dont like red cars

    Its just someones opinion






    Imo


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    MrJoeSoap
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    Syllabus wrote: »
    Its their opinion

    If they said they didnt like corkoians(sp) would you say the same? Or they said i dont like red cars

    Its just someones opinion






    Imo

    If your opinion is to criticise/judge an entire race or ethnicity on the basis of the few that you've met, then you're a racist surely?

    You can't just throw "IMO" on the end of something to make it ok.


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    Syllabus
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    MrJoeSoap wrote: »
    If you're opinion is to criticise/judge an entire race or ethnicity on the basis of the few that you've met, then you're a racist surely?

    You can't just throw "IMO" on the end of something to make it ok.

    I never said he wasnt rascist


    And yes i can


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    DrumSteve
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    Syllabus wrote: »
    I never said he wasnt rascist


    And yes i can

    Eh, Im just gonna jump in here, to confirm im not a racist.


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    yermandan
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    mfceiling wrote: »
    They are south african OP.

    What did you expext from them?

    Hillarious irony


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    The Queen of England
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    Eim frum Sud Afrika und I like it hear cuz there ain't too many blicks abuat.


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    #23
    ardmacha
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZjwCmJrnlY


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    Seaneh
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    One of the nicest people I know is a white girl who was born and raised in South Africa, her parents are both Irish though.

    Even she says the most racist people she knows are Afrikaners.


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    jugger0
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    If you were from SA you'd probably be a bit racist too.


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    #26
    Chuck Stone
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    DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY.


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    Duckworth_Luas
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    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY.
    But you're blik!


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    LiamoSail
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    While I don't condone racism, its very easy for us here in ireland to criticise such a mentality without having an appreciation for how things are at the moment over in South Africa, and indeed the likes of Zimbabwe. Relative to South Africa, we have zero experience of racism or racial divides in this country, so we can't relate

    Again, I'm not condoning the mentality, however people need to understand that South Africa is a dangerous place, and its very easy to see how these attitudes are nurtured among the middle class, in otherwise decent, rational people


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    The Backwards Man
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    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY.
    I'd give it to Patsy Kensit, not sure about the rest.


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    Czarcasm
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    Ah Jesus, the bus driver shouldn't even have entertained them tbh. They were hardly going to change life-long held views on the whim of a 30 second exchange of words with a Dublin bus driver!

    Sure I was at a party last week the only white guy among a crowd of about 100 black people (my friend is black and it was her son's communion, but tbf what I consider a "small get together of family and friends" and what she considers a small get together of family and friends, are vastly different concepts! :D), but a couple of the lads were gathered around the barbecue and the chap was turning the lamb chunks with his fingers, then dipping his fingers in water to cool them.

    I goes to him "Jesus man have you no tongs?"

    I nearly pissed myself laughing when he replied "Tongs are for white people!"

    Racist bastard! :pac:


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    bb1234567
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    C.ENGSTUDENT wrote: »
    Hi, I was just wondering if anyone else has experienced a similar encounter with open racism in front of everyone.

    On the bus coming home yesterday evening, I was waiting to get off and I was queuing behind a couple that spoke with Southern African accents, one of them chats to the driver about there travel around Europe.

    Then drops this bombshell "Yeah I like Ireland, not too many black people eh?"
    I was really shocked that he said it, so to was the driver who spoke how great black people like Phil Lynott were in reply to him. Then the backpacker said "well I don't like em".

    It happened so quickly in a bus full of people, he wasn't joking, he was serious.

    I heard something similar when I was on the bus a a few weeks ago, a black guy talking about how much he hated arabs and how theyre pure evil or something lol


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