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chiefdave
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After the vote last night it seems we're now the only G7 country not to have backed Bidens plans to curb tax avoidance by large companies. The vote wasn't even to fully back it, just to have a review in the next six months to establish how it would affect the taxpayer.
Sky_Blue_Dreamer
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I take it you do not accept the reasons given then?
shmmeee
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Genuinely don’t see the problem with Johnson’s comments. The guy is clearly a racist as most from his background are, but his article was a defence of burka wearing in the spirit of classic liberalism.
Goldsmiths campaign was disgusting though, and some of the attitudes of newer MPs are very concerning.
Goldsmiths campaign was disgusting though, and some of the attitudes of newer MPs are very concerning.
Brighton Sky Blue
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Nothing wrong with comparisons to burglars and letterboxes? Wow
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It was a vile racist comment targetting a vulnerable minority.
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No, it wasn't racist. It was culturist. Nothing in what he wrote in any inferred that Muslims were an inferior race, if indeed you believe that race is other than a social construct. Islam as a inferior culture maybe, but not 'race'.
Ccfcisparks
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Your profile picture is horrifying. Everytime I look at it it sends a shiver down my spine haha
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Think you might feel differently if you were affected by his comments
shmmeee
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Not really in context. No different to saying nuns look like penguins or whatever. His entire point is that may be what he thinks but it’s their right to wear what they want.
But I don’t get precious about word play and analogies so YMMV.
fatso
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Yea, I thought Islam was a religion, not a race.
But I guess that doesnt fit some peoples narrative.
Grendel
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The much overblown piccanniny watermelon smile thing was not racist either
shmmeee
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Ah, you went too far. That was definitely racist, the word alone is racist.
Ccfcisparks
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Are you serious?
shmmeee
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Not really. There were 30 more incidents compared to the previous week but as a whole street harassment of Muslims was lower in 2018 than 2017. A one week spike doesn’t prove causation at all.
Brighton Sky Blue
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If people call Muslims ‘letterboxes’ in school we suspend them
Grendel
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So is big white chief and big white jet
shmmeee
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OK Brendan. Except “white” isn’t racist in isolation but “picaninny” is.
Grendel
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He was accusing Anthony Charles Lynton Blair of being the white imperialist looking down on his black flock as he gurned around the Congo looking for cheap deals. It was a swipe at colonialism
shmmeee
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Im not sure I’d want to live in a country that ran according to a secondary school behaviour policy TBH.
Ccfcisparks
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Yes and the term he used was still racist. You are becoming a parody of yourself.
Brighton Sky Blue
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I didn’t say people should go to prison for it. Just that I’m not comfortable comparing Muslims to letterboxes and burglars. If you are, you do you
Brighton Sky Blue
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Two can play the full name game
Alexander de Pfeffel Johnson
Gideon Osborne
‘Call me Dave’ Cameron
Grendel
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No he was parodying Blair
Boris Johnson and the 'piccaninny' smear | The Spectator
Boris Johnson likes to call black people 'piccaninnies’. Everyone’s saying it. Even Stormzy said it this week in his endorsement of Jeremy Corbyn. It is ‘criminally dangerous’ to give the keys of Downing Street back to a man who refers to ‘black people as “piccaninnies” with “watermelon...
www.google.co.uk
Brighton Sky Blue
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No he was parodying Blair
Boris Johnson and the 'piccaninny' smear | The Spectator
Boris Johnson likes to call black people 'piccaninnies’. Everyone’s saying it. Even Stormzy said it this week in his endorsement of Jeremy Corbyn. It is ‘criminally dangerous’ to give the keys of Downing Street back to a man who refers to ‘black people as “piccaninnies” with “watermelon...
How many PMs have been sacked for dishonesty from previous jobs?
Grendel
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The funniest today was that fool Femi spouting utter drivel about the rather unpleasant black version of Tommy Robinson who was shot in the head and saying she was a key member of BLM and had death threats and couldn’t really believe the police implying she wasn’t targeted as a shot in the head.
To give her some kind of curious legitimacy he also skilled in she was “Oxford educated”
Grendel
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Most haven’t had jobs
Ccfcisparks
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Yes but is the term racist or notNo he was parodying Blair
Boris Johnson and the 'piccaninny' smear | The Spectator
Boris Johnson likes to call black people 'piccaninnies’. Everyone’s saying it. Even Stormzy said it this week in his endorsement of Jeremy Corbyn. It is ‘criminally dangerous’ to give the keys of Downing Street back to a man who refers to ‘black people as “piccaninnies” with “watermelon...
Brighton Sky Blue
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The funniest today was that fool Femi spouting utter drivel about the rather unpleasant black version of Tommy Robinson who was shot in the head and saying she was a key member of BLM and had death threats and couldn’t really believe the police implying she wasn’t targeted as a shot in the head.
To give her some kind of curious legitimacy he also skilled in she was “Oxford educated”
Ah, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon.
Grendel
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well you think letter box is - it isn’t and it’s to create debate
Ccfcisparks
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Is the term "Pickaninny Watermelon Smiles" racist?