tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post7459353324958984676..comments2024-01-23T16:53:02.428+00:00Comments on Mark Thompson: Imagine if a white MP had said this....Mark Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00744387583593537268noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post-51736544645142196072012-01-08T23:20:12.962+00:002012-01-08T23:20:12.962+00:00Jim, I really hope that was tongue-in-cheek otherw...Jim, I really hope that was tongue-in-cheek otherwise you should be sacked. Actually you should just lose your job regardless. The Internet demands it.Rosynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post-25533921323034024412012-01-05T21:41:38.950+00:002012-01-05T21:41:38.950+00:00But even looking at the context in which she tweet...But even looking at the context in which she tweeted, the tweets she was replying to, there's nothing to suggest 19th century European colonialism, unless that's the sort of thing that she and @bimadew usually tweet about.<br /><br />Admittedly she did read history at Cambridge, so its possible, but it still feels like she pulled that context out of her arse.Chris Gilmourhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14527672702704849717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post-69144798145355854002012-01-05T16:07:43.966+00:002012-01-05T16:07:43.966+00:00I don't often disagree with you, Mark, but I d...I don't often disagree with you, Mark, but I do this time. I can see where she was going with that tweet although she made it in a poor way.<br /><br />What does make me furious, though, is that rather than give her the chance to explain herself, Ed Miliband, in an attempt to appear strong, has rebuked her and sent Chuka Umunna out to tell the world that he thinks she's transgressed.<br /><br />I've done my own take on this here:<br /><br />http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/2012/01/why-is-diane-abbott-top-headline-on-bbc.html<br /><br />After that brief interlude, we should probably go back to discussing the things that matter.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04988201531739344840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post-50824840696336865232012-01-05T12:01:01.657+00:002012-01-05T12:01:01.657+00:00It's a silly comment from a silly woman, so I ...It's a silly comment from a silly woman, so I can't get worked up about. In fact I'll turn it round. Here's a posh woman who sends her kids to private school, and she turns round and accuses people who have nothing like her wealth and privilege of being members of some sort of ruling class just because of the colour of their skin? Yes, you may be a council estate mum living on benefits, but you're still an evil colonialist if you're not black. Sounds pretty much like divide-and-rule to me, pretty much like a posh person devising a tactic to prevent the non-posh of different races uniting to get rid of the Oxbridge-educated private school lot who form the ruling class of this country ...Matthew Huntbachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18255872047710686115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post-10173994678850020272012-01-05T11:37:43.229+00:002012-01-05T11:37:43.229+00:00A very fair point of view, I think. She shouldn...A very fair point of view, I think. She shouldn't be sacked, but an apology is certainly in order. However, regarding the 'West Indian mums' point, Phil Ruse is correct that positive discrimination is common and it certainly doesn't mean that everyone who's not included within it must therefore be the opposite.Tonynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post-75038004470207937222012-01-05T11:11:48.865+00:002012-01-05T11:11:48.865+00:00On tenses...what a difference a d makesOn tenses...what a difference a d makeseoghanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02408335744825873080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post-62668800365780269982012-01-05T10:04:52.211+00:002012-01-05T10:04:52.211+00:00Didn't you get the memo? Only white folk can b...Didn't you get the memo? Only white folk can be racist. In fact forget the 'can', white people are all racist, some of them are just better at hiding it than others.Jimnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post-47306473726223076072012-01-05T10:04:50.392+00:002012-01-05T10:04:50.392+00:00It was an incredibly stupid comment, one shared by...It was an incredibly stupid comment, one shared by others (<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2002/jul/03/raceintheuk.comment" rel="nofollow">link</a>, <a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/edwest/100013521/jo-brand-you-cant-be-racist-towards-white-people/" rel="nofollow">link</a>) but I think citing the "west indian mothers" comment rather undermines how stupid she was <b>this</b> time around; for the reason that so many people are guilty of that kind of 'positive' discrimination (note the quotes!) I've often heard similar on an English-Welsh-Scots comparison for example.Phil Rusehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13040474351783645703noreply@blogger.com