(April 26, 2009 at 6:00 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Sure I can explain, it's because society is ruled by the anti-racists more than the pro-equalists. The anti-racists will see the doll and say "Oh my! That's a racist depiction of a black person!". A pro-equalist will look at the doll and say "Oh my! That's a funny looking doll!". The difference between them is that the anti-racist is ironically being the racist one, by implying that because the doll looks weird and is black, it must therefore be associated with black people, even though they don't look anything like the doll. The pro-equalist sees what is there, a doll with a weird face. They might notice it is black, but they do not relate it to black people.
All the anti-racist movement has done has campaigned for racism. They keep on insisting there is a massive difference between people of different coloured skin, and the pro-equalists say there simply isn't, and that everyone shouldn't be viewed that way. The anti-racists complained very loudly when Janet Street Porter called her black neighbour a "bitch", when the pro-equalists (me included) wrote at length why it wasn't racism to call another human being a rude word. Perhaps you can justify the anti-racist reaction bozo? Why did they complain so very loudly when Janet Street Porter called another human being a "bitch"? She wasn't doing it because the lady was black, she was doing it because she thought the lady was being a bitch.
All the anti-racist movement did by calling Janet Street Porter a "racist" was say very clearly that you cannot insult people of different colour skin, and that every single black person must be respected. In other words, black people are somehow elevated to a higher level of importance than white people. Hmmmm...that sound a bit like racism to me.
Oh dear, you just don't get it, do you? Or do you want to? The dolls have been taken from the shelves for reasons I gave to Padraic earlier today. You seek to deny their history. Well so be it.
I'm unfamiliar with The Street-Porter story, so I can't comment from knowledge. If the real issue was calling somebody a bitch then I don't see it as racist, but is the lady in question racist? I don't know and neither can you know.
And as for your criticism of anti-racists, well frankly I think its bollocks.
My challenge to you to test your theory amongst the black populace stays.
And to you and your black friends, do you think we now live in a non-racist, pro-equalist Britain?
A man is born to a virgin mother, lives, dies, comes alive again and then disappears into the clouds to become his Dad. How likely is that?
