Accused of racism

I read the comments as jokingly sarcastic, provoked by other comments. Which is fine. And anyway Englishness is not a race so even being nasty about "the English" is not racism. It may be stupid to bunch all English people (or any other identifiable group that has a name) together as if they were all the same, but it's not racist.

Shove the name-calling in the slop bucket, vamp, where it belongs.

What heat? Cold and raining here...

I think everyone is getting ratty and scratchy because of the heat!! Go have

During his racing years, Niki Lauda was nicknamed the rat because of his small eyes and sticky out teeth. I don't remember anyone getting their knickers in a twist in those far off days of not looking for something to pounce on and being able to take a joke.

Yes, it will give you 'helmet-hair' NanKate, but if you don't wear it while under fire you risk it standing on end!

Yes Roses thanks so much! but will it mess up my hair ?

NanKate, would you like to borrow the tin hat that I borrowed from somebody a while ago?We circulate it for those in need.

Marmight I can't for the life of me see how calling the French President after a rodent can be seen as racist, a bit cheeky maybe but that's all in my opinion.

I once, very naively, started a thread about how politically correct we had become in the UK and I was assaulted with a torrent of negative comments and now hide behind the barricade and a avoid these kind of threads.

Petra

Jane10. I'm the reverse. I'm much more honest in person to person.

I guess that the reason for that is that we generally save our face to face chat for our friends.also, to be fair, this is a chat and opinion forum, you have to be a bit robust from time to time, although 'real insults' don't happen all that often on here unlike some forums.

Except that people seem to find it easier to type things that they wouldn't say to someone's face.

Quite right, we shouldn't lose any sleep over anything at all on the forum, it's just a chat vehicle.

Maybe I should have said that I assumed it was light hearted, just as you assumed it was racist. Prime example of how easily comments can be misconstrued. I'm not going to lose any sleep over it anyway. Light hearted

That's what the grin emoticon is for.

How do we know it was light hearted , I did't seem so at all.

I can't find where vq is meant to have said some "unpleasant things about the English" . Unless, of course, it was the "superior" comment, and surely that was light hearted and couldn't possibly be taken seriously.......?

VQ you wrote some unpleasant things about 'the English ' a sort of racism surely.Even if you are English yourself.That is what people object to. can't imagine why you would have written it, unless to attract comment?this is yet another thread about a thread.

'English Votes for English Laws' - if you can be a****d to refer back!
I was once in the early days of GN, quite unjustly, accused of being a racist when I referred to the then President of France as a 'little w***el' ( I won't type it in full in case the same person accuses me again but it's a small stoat like carnivore). I soon got over the accusation and put it down to confusion on the part of the accuser ....

Nor me.

It is such a lazy argument calling someone a racist isn't it? I loathe and detest hijab,burkas and similar. From a feminist point of view. Equally FGM and yet there are still those who say it's a cultural thing so it is right. I think they are the racists personally. Didn't see the original thread or if I did didn't notice.

Or me

It might have been better if you had put this comment on the thread in question because I don't know what was said or why.

VQ did not make a racist comment and it is horrid being accused of doing so even if the accuser made an error the accusation is there

Lots of racists think they aren't! I'm definitely not saying vq is - just that self declaration doesn't necessarily count as the actual truth! Maybe racism is in the eye of the beholder?