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Police are looking for 3 youths who dressed up as golliwogs and the Jackson 5 for some event in Scotland.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/race-probe-police-investigate-after-6158926

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3178865/Police-investigating-youngsters-blacked-Golliwogs.html

Not sure how the Jackson 5 came into the Daily Record's report.

A legitimate effort to prevent all forms or racism or a waste of police time and resources on stupidity?

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darkpagandeath

Are costumes illegal now ?

4zn76tysfajdxp

How can three people dress up as five people?

[Deleted User]

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Are costumes illegal now ?

I should possibly have added a third suggestion, being a legitimate expression of free speech.

Menas

Ayla Tart Starter wrote: »

How can three people dress up as five people?

Too many battered mars bars. They were overweight.

[Deleted User]

Ayla Tart Starter wrote: »

How can three people dress up as five people?

It was done on TG4 a few years ago in a talent competition where one man went as the Jackson 5, blacked up, and had 2 black puppets on each side.

How it got on, I'll never know, but the judges just sat there with open mouths.

Mesrine65

FFS political correctness gone mad :rolleyes:

It wasn't that long ago that Robinson's jam had a Golliwog on the jar :eek:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1136016/How-golliwog-went-innocent-childrens-hero-symbol-bitter-controversy.html

Tin Foil Hat

It's the new blasphemy. We live in a very conservative age, where any deviation in speech or actions from the current zeitgeist can see a person ostracised or criminalised.
The twitteraty are no different to the torch wielding mobs of old.

Badly Drunk Boy

The police always target the blacks, don't they?

razorblunt

If this means that White Chicks is never, ever shown on tv again, then I, for one am all for it!

Boring username

I look forward to the day we crush the out of control train wreck that is political correctness.

namloc1980

The "perpetually offended" are at it again. How do these people function when they are constantly offended?

seamus

Ayla Tart Starter wrote: »

How can three people dress up as five people?

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9tsjzscMq1rwl09fo1_500.gif

REXER

Deleted User wrote: »

Police are looking for 3 youths who dressed up as golliwogs and the Jackson 5 for some event in Scotland.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/race-probe-police-investigate-after-6158926

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3178865/Police-investigating-youngsters-blacked-Golliwogs.html

Not sure how the Jackson 5 came into the Daily Record's report.

A legitimate effort to prevent all forms or racism or a waste of police time and resources on stupidity?

A complete waste of allegedly scarce resources.

Just this week the UK plods said that they would no longer be able to respond to burglary's as their budgets have been cut too far. WTF :eek:

BorneTobyWilde

Who ever was 'michael' didn't need to black up.

Cienciano

Ayla Tart Starter wrote: »

How can three people dress up as five people?

The three fifths compromise. They got it bang on!

4zn76tysfajdxp

Cienciano wrote: »

The three fifths compromise. They got it bang on!

I was waiting for that one.

RDM_83 again

Since dressing up as a Nazi is way worse than dressing up as the Jackson 5 it would be nice if they also arrested Prince Harry :-)

Nodin

Deleted User wrote: »

Police are looking for 3 youths who dressed up as golliwogs and the Jackson 5 for some event in Scotland.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/race-probe-police-investigate-after-6158926

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3178865/Police-investigating-youngsters-blacked-Golliwogs.html

Not sure how the Jackson 5 came into the Daily Record's report.

A legitimate effort to prevent all forms or racism or a waste of police time and resources on stupidity?

The latter. It's not illegal, there's no evidence they were out to wind up black folk....can't see wtf they're investigating, tbh.

BattleCorp

Nothing illegal here.

Move along.

Next made up story please.

Fox_In_Socks

Ayla Tart Starter wrote: »

How can three people dress up as five people?

Weekend at Bernies on a bigger scale!

For Forks Sake

RDM_83 again wrote: »

Since dressing up as a Nazi is way worse than dressing up as the Jackson 5 it would be nice if they also arrested Prince Harry :-)

He was merely paying homage to his ancestors m'lud.

frostyjacks

No different to people dressing up in leprechaun outfits.

K4t

Police perpetuate race issue after people dress up as other people.

It's a wonder they're not attempting to crack down on all those white male football fans wearing jerseys with black men's names written across the back of them.

hatrickpatrick

Yet more proof that free speech is dying a slow death while being repeatedly stabbed by the PC brigade. :mad:

Anyone remember that video of Pat Kenny talking to the kid who wanted to go to New York for breakdancing lessons?
"Sure all the world's best breakdancers are from New York really, aren't they... Most of them are black as well! So what would you do, maybe... Put a bit of coal around your face, or...?"

dubscottie

Mesrine65 wrote: »

FFS political correctness gone mad :rolleyes:

It wasn't that long ago that Robinson's jam had a Golliwog on the jar :eek:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1136016/How-golliwog-went-innocent-childrens-hero-symbol-bitter-controversy.html

My brother has about 20 of the soft toys you could get if you saved and sent off the wee tokens off the labels.

He tried to sell some but was told they were racist but there are people willing to pay €€€€ for them.

K4t

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

Yet more proof that free speech is dying a slow death while being repeatedly stabbed by the PC brigade. :mad:

Nothing against the PC brigade personally, a lot of it is common sense, but things do become entirely sinister when police investigate becomes the norm.

Samaris

I would, from my uninformed perspective, think that it's not as "serious" when cultures that do not have a long history of wronging black people do something like this. But I think we may have imported the "wrongness" of it from the United States, and taken on a lot of baggage that is the baggage of Americans, not just "white people" in general. For instance, the tradition of Svarte Pete in Holland (?) - there was a fuss about that too.

I think golliwogs in particular are a bit dodgy, because they were meant to be stereotypical representations of black people. But, say, dressing up as Obama (or the Jackson 5) shouldn't particularly be off-limits because you're white any more than dressing up as...I dunno, Lady Gaga if you're black. If you do, logically you can't just ignore that your skin is the wrong colour. But the whole blackface thing, because of the times when it was done for the sake of mocking and when black people would be punished severely for protesting the mocking, is just off-limits in general to whites.

I'm not sure what could be used to whiten your face - chalk or flour maybe! But if it's not being done to be insulting, I don't see a major problem with it in either direction.

I would be interested to hear the view of someone that isn't white, mind you.

K4t

Samaris wrote: »

But if it's not being done to be insulting, I don't see a major problem with it in either direction.

I would be interested to hear the view of someone that isn't white, mind you.

When it's being done with the explicit aim of being insulting is when it needs protecting the most.

I would too, but their view should have no bearing on whether it becomes a legal matter, nor should anyone elses.

darkpagandeath

This usually works well in these situations.

Eugene Norman

Samaris wrote: »

I would, from my uninformed perspective, think that it's not as "serious" when cultures that do not have a long history of wronging black people do something like this. But I think we may have imported the "wrongness" of it from the United States, and taken on a lot of baggage that is the baggage of Americans, not just "white people" in general. For instance, the tradition of Svarte Pete in Holland (?) - there was a fuss about that too.

I think golliwogs in particular are a bit dodgy, because they were meant to be stereotypical representations of black people. But, say, dressing up as Obama (or the Jackson 5) shouldn't particularly be off-limits because you're white any more than dressing up as...I dunno, Lady Gaga if you're black. If you do, logically you can't just ignore that your skin is the wrong colour. But the whole blackface thing, because of the times when it was done for the sake of mocking and when black people would be punished severely for protesting the mocking, is just off-limits in general to whites.

I'm not sure what could be used to whiten your face - chalk or flour maybe! But if it's not being done to be insulting, I don't see a major problem with it in either direction.

I would be interested to hear the view of someone that isn't white, mind you.

The entire "whites privilege" nonsense ignores the fact that the real dominant world culture isn't the "whites", seriously are the Belarusians, Fiins and Latvians running the world?, but the yanks. Including the black yanks.

Dressing up as the Jackson five is a testament to Anerican hegemony. It's a tribute to American cultural power.