Race report: 'UK not deliberately rigged against ethnic minorities'

Somewhere along the line racism has been redefined as anything negative happening to or impacting a BAME person so it's no wonder the woke see racism everywhere.

We all suffer bad/negative experiences and meet people who take a dislike to us based on often times personality, it's not just automatically race related unless you want it to be.

I've said it before but those pushing movements like BLM are the racists, they are ultimately going to destroy whatever cohesion exists between people of different races. They've already got people thinking in an "us and them" mentality by focusing so much on skin colour. It's why they reacted so badly to "all lives matter", they seek to divide not unite.
 
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mmj_uk said:
Somewhere along the line racism has been redefined as anything negative happening to or impacting a BAME person so it's no wonder the woke see racism everywhere.

We all suffer bad/negative experiences and meet people who take a dislike to us based on often times personality, it's not just automatically race related unless you want it to be.

I've said it before but those pushing movements like BLM are the racists, they are ultimately going to destroy whatever cohesion exists between people of different races. They've already got people thinking in an "us and them" mentality by focusing so much on skin colour. It's why they reacted so badly to "all lives matter", they seek to divide not unite.
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No offence intended but Im fairly sure BLM has made no difference to your posting history/style/type.
 
Thekwango said:
was you’re co worker sacked for telling the manager off?

No, you’ve still got a throbber of a work mate who got the name wrong of a girl he had the hots for. No that’s grounds for ripping the pee outta him and start calling him weird names lol
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The co worker had already been working there for a while. I was still in my 3 months probationary period. They could sack me for any reason even if I got slightly upset of managers taking the **** out of me for any reason.

As some people have mentioned it might have actually been a test- that is to see if I did flip out just so they could sack me within the probationary period.

I didn't have any scope to say anything back, it was both my first job at age 19 and I couldn't risk losing it.
 
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BallistixOnZ490 said:
The co worker had already been working there for a while. I was still in my 3 months probationary period. They could sack me for any reason even if I got slightly upset of managers taking the **** out of me for any reason. The only thing the coworker did

As some people have mentioned it might have actually been a test- that is to see if I did flip out just so they could sack me within the probationary period.

I didn't have any scope to say anything back, it was both my first job at age 19 and I couldn't risk losing it.
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Mate, I admire your tenacity, but you're not going to change these people's minds.

I understand where you're coming from, someone deliberately and continually using a name that bothers you isn't just banter, it's being a **** and bullying.

The fact that someone may be a **** to everyone doesn't mean they're not also a racist **** too, because let's face it all racists are ****s.

And the way people say the same words can mean different things depending on tone and context.

I'll often say something like 'Honestly, you're such a ****!' to a friend in the course of conversation, but if I said those same words with a different tone after a stranger had accidentally spilled a bit of drink on me, it's a very different thing.
 
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wesimmo said:
Mate, I admire your tenacity, but you're not going to change these people's minds.

I understand where you're coming from, someone deliberately and continually using a name that bothers you isn't just banter, it's being a **** and bullying.

The fact that someone may be a **** to everyone doesn't mean they're not also a racist **** too, because let's face it all racists are ****s.

And the way people say the same words can mean different things depending on tone and context.

I'll often day something like 'Honestly, you're such a ****!' to a friend in the course of conversation, but if I said those same words with a different tone after a stranger had accidentally spilled a bit of drink on me, it's a very different thing.
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Not really trying to change anyone's opinions, in a way it amuses me that so many people think that bullying in the workplace is fine especially if whoever does it does it to everyone. Imagine trying to use that as your defense when you end up being grilled by an employment tribunal, I'd be laughing with all the compo such people would end up paying me if it happened today.
 
BallistixOnZ490 said:
Let me guess, you're the type of person like one guy who told me never to go to a pub or I would get killed for replying 'I don't watch nor am interested in any sports'.

I would take a comment like that straight to the nice ladies in HR if it happened today, and it may be illegal under 'glorification of violence' or some such.

Also I've had similar questions asked very often usually from Asian males about cricket. Telling them the same reply never leads to a follow up with the word 'kill' in the reply. Usually any such person just keeps blathering on and on about about whichever sport it is, at which point I would now simply passive aggressively remove my hearing aids in front of them then proceed to ignore anything else they say.
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Tbh, that sounds like a conversation you had with yourself, in your head. But even if true, your response (if it happened tomorrow) is lol-worthy. "Today I'd go straight to HR".

It sounds like you're an employer's nightmare, tbh. By your own admission, you're looking for any and all opportunity to take offense to, well, everything, and sounds like you're itching to "go to HR" or "take it to tribunal for huge compensation". You seem incredibly thin skinned, you have a massive chip on your shoulder about "white English", and you seem to hate living among "white English" who you seem to regard with contempt.
 
Ahleckz said:
Jesus, the usual mob are out.

For anyone who isn’t a massive **** and needs it spelt out to them:
the chap has an unusual name. The boss may have not been aware how to pronounce it. However at some point they could pronounce it with no issue. For some reason, the boss then decided to start pronouncing it wrong to belittle/annoy/bully/etc the poster.
For you all to try and justify this is ludicrous. The fact is the boss was at a time pronouncing the name correctly. They then stopped this and began insulting the chap.

The boss is an ass, and sounds like a textbook racist. Why else would they start to wrongly pronounce the chaps name and belittle him based on that?

The boss has probably felt emboldened because so many racists are able to be racists without it being shut down.
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If the boss did continuingly pronounce the name correctly for a said period of time. Then revert to the wrong name, then there is a slight issue.
But to jump to RACIST conclusion is ridiculous assumptions. This is where people have lost the ability to think logically. This individual either needs to speak up and clarify the situation and that he finds it distressing. Or raise a grievance with HR. Assumptions "thought" to be belittling or racist does not make it factually so. We need to go back and look at the real definition of racist and racism. 95% of the time its misused in a baiting way. For the I'm offended crowd to have more leverage to be relevant.

I do not stand for bullying or anyone victimising another worker or colleague. But I do stand for facts and honesty. In this example the racism tone has been pushed throughout without a single solid piece of evidence apart from opinion.
 
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