Caporegime
It was good of you to warn her about the gayness.
Older generation - racist?
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Caporegime
my grandad would be classed as racist, sexist and all manner of other 'ists' these days.
I wouldnt change him for the world though
I wouldnt change him for the world though
Soldato
My grans racist, but only in a senile "im gonna blurt it out rather loudly in a crowded restaurant" way...bless
I also used to have an old maths teacher who was rather racist. He put up an Everton calender and it stayed on January for an extra 2 months, when asked why he hadn't updated it he replied "because February and March are taken up by coloured folk, normal service will resume in April" there was a phrase he like to use a lot when we were faced with a particularly hard problem, "oh dear lads, this ones as hard as finding a n***** in a woodpile...
I also used to have an old maths teacher who was rather racist. He put up an Everton calender and it stayed on January for an extra 2 months, when asked why he hadn't updated it he replied "because February and March are taken up by coloured folk, normal service will resume in April" there was a phrase he like to use a lot when we were faced with a particularly hard problem, "oh dear lads, this ones as hard as finding a n***** in a woodpile...
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Soldato
They also lack education.
I also dislike him, but I wouldn't say I was racist.
Caporegime
That, sir, is a brilliant piece of trolling. I award you the highest order of Troll : the 5 star Michelin Troll award!
No, I'm sorry, not all old people are racist or magically 'excused' from being polite just because they're old.
My mum's side of the family are INCREDIBLY White/English, my nan was a Hunt before she married my grampa, a Smith. A bit further back you get some French's but I daresay it was some time ago they came over to England from the continent to end up with that as a surname!
Anyway. It was a fairly racist society back then, my nan used to work with a black man, I can't remember where - either a shop or the local bio lab (I forget). They became friends and brought him home to tea once, much to the consternation of her own mother who I don't think liked that very much...
Point being if you're a closed-minded grumpy git, I suppose you're likely to be racist too. Goes for all ages. But if you're open and friendly and lack prejudice, then you won't.
My mum's side of the family are INCREDIBLY White/English, my nan was a Hunt before she married my grampa, a Smith. A bit further back you get some French's but I daresay it was some time ago they came over to England from the continent to end up with that as a surname!
Anyway. It was a fairly racist society back then, my nan used to work with a black man, I can't remember where - either a shop or the local bio lab (I forget). They became friends and brought him home to tea once, much to the consternation of her own mother who I don't think liked that very much...
Point being if you're a closed-minded grumpy git, I suppose you're likely to be racist too. Goes for all ages. But if you're open and friendly and lack prejudice, then you won't.
My grandparents were not at all racist and lived in london amoungst many different people.
however my In laws who you would call well educated and travelled the world were terribly racist including black, japanese, German and pakistanis (sp) it used to horrify me.
however my In laws who you would call well educated and travelled the world were terribly racist including black, japanese, German and pakistanis (sp) it used to horrify me.
Soldato
[FnG]magnolia;13135243 said:That, sir, is a brilliant piece of trolling. I award you the highest order of Troll : the 5 star Michelin Troll award!
It is true, if you know what genetics are and that we are all 99.99% the same and it is simply a matter of upbringing and culture rather than them being inferior or whatever then yes I think education helps.
You can't judge a book by it's cover is obvious to some but not others, by tarnishing everyone with a certain skin colour with the same brush is obviously unfair on all the "good" people of that race but without education many do not see this obvious point.
But yeah even many with an education choose to ignore it so it is not the be all and end all. But I wasnt trolling.
Genetically you're 98% identical to a halibut, and several thousand times less complex than a fern (in relation to number of chromosomes). Little difference's in genetics are still major things.
Fried chicken?
You didn't strike me as someone who's led a sheltered life but this post makes it sound like you have.
Is that actually what they call it? Muppets if so.
For the hard of thinking, whites are ethnic - every race is ethnic.
Man of Honour
An elderly relative in his 80s now uses terms that could be described as racist. I have never known him to do anything different in his behaviour but he may use terms to refer to different groups of people that is now deemed as racist, but in his mind it is no different to saying that ginger man over there or that fat person on the bus.
And partially in his defence growing up through a war where people from overseas tried to kill him on a regular basis I can understand why he may dislike people not from this country.
He was also in the armed services and there his job description was go out and kill foreign people - you cannot get much more racist than that.
And partially in his defence growing up through a war where people from overseas tried to kill him on a regular basis I can understand why he may dislike people not from this country.
He was also in the armed services and there his job description was go out and kill foreign people - you cannot get much more racist than that.
Or maybe your social group is very different to Malc's
It sounds like it's the first time he's encountered racist people ever, never mind at work. If he is so highly principled he should say something next time
Don't be silly. First of all, not all foreigners are of a different race. Secondly, we didn't kill Germans or Japs because they were foreign, we killed them because we were at war with them - total war.