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Why are Indymedia up-in-arms about mixed race Jade Goody making some immature remarks about an obnoxious Indian princess without reporting the hatred of the ruling class?
You decide.....
Uncle Joe | 26.01.2007 00:10 | Analysis | Anti-racism
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Comments
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Wrong premises
26.01.2007 07:43
He didn't say it on television, it is now reported on Indymedia, and 'Indymedia' isn't up in arms about Ms. Baddie - just some of the people who use the open newswire are.
bored shitless
Eh?
26.01.2007 09:45
Bob
bored
26.01.2007 09:53
Auntie Class
How serious is it?
26.01.2007 10:16
"Mr Matthews, the head of Standard Life's life and pension business, blurted out the words while addressing staff about controversial changes to the company's pension scheme. An employee asked why the plans to change the scheme from final salary to career average were at the back of a document last year detailing the company's demutualisation. "That's the nigger in the woodpile," he said at the presentation on Monday."
Sounds more like indifference to being PC and/or insensitivity than any genuine racist attack. Still a stupid fuckwit, but it's hardly an overt and pointed race hate remark specifically directed at black people and their value to society. If he had said "Niggers are ruining this country and should be deported!", I'd want his arse on a court bench. It makes me wonder about his attitudes, but as it stands It's hardly Enoch Powell material is it?
I think John Reid and David Blunkett have said worse without using any non-PC words. They have attacked Muslims and asylum seekers in a sustained fashion.
He needs a hard slap on the wrist and an eye kept on his behaviour for sure, but he isn't guilty of systematic racial abuse on the basis of some distasteful phrase used abstractly.
Elvis
Not covered
26.01.2007 13:43
Differentbob
Differentbob+
26.01.2007 14:39
Elvis
Colorblind James Experience
26.01.2007 16:46
My baby was talking in her sleep
She said Bob
I said what ?
She said Bob
I said I'm Bob
She said No, I mean a different Bob
dp
dp
27.01.2007 02:44
vxcvvvvvvvvvvvxxv
Dear differentbob
27.01.2007 02:51
41 comments isn't much, when dp did nearly half herself...!!!
Uncle Joe
bomb scare
27.01.2007 12:57
Their offices are on Lothian Road just by the Western Approach Road and would be pretty easy to block or monitor. They'd be a good Mayday target too, a block would bring travel chaos to the town as that's a busy route, the 'financial district' also full of tourists milling around so plenty of cover. Didn't someone hit them on the G8 ?
Remember that female artist who caused chaos in London by leaving a few rucksacks lying around in different locations ? I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often, although Edinburgh airport was shut down this way last week. A charity shop rucksack (with Matthews name on it), a few back of flour, a few wires sticking out, and suddenly the company has lost millions of pounds in lost work and business.
Have any of you lot got any unused 'Car Bomb' stickers that Negativland distributed a few years back ?
Joe - you decide...do something and publish it here and I'll try and do something bigger. Otherwise you can stick the hypocracy charge.
vxcvvvvvvvvvvvxxv -
As for pompous, well the opinion of an arrogant inactive middle-class drunk doesn't bother me much any more than the incoherent snarling of any pathetic Glaswegian jakey - especially since I've since found Matthews address and no one else has. Still proud of regularly shitting your pants every time you disrupt the 'wire with your snarlin petty Friday/Saturday night rants ? What a man. What a failure.
When I get my hands on some money
I'll kiss it's green skin
And I'll ask it's dirty face
"Where the hell have you been?"
"I am the fuel that fires the engine
of failure."
I'll be old and broken down
I'll forget who and where I am
I'll be senile or forgotten
But I'll remember and understand
You can bank your hard-earned money
on failure
I saw my father crying
I saw my mother break her hand
On a wall that wouldn't weep
But that certainly held in
The mechanical moans of a dying man
Who was a failure
My back hurts me when I bend
Because I carry a load
My brain hurts me like a knife-hole
Because I've yet to be shown
How to pull myself out from
The sucking quicksand
of failure
Some people live in hell
Many bastards succeed
But I. I've learned nothing
I can't even elegantly bleed
Out the poison blood
of failure
dp
Racism
27.01.2007 22:41
Armigerous
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Chew away
28.01.2007 09:41
the politically correct brigade
dp
28.01.2007 09:49
vxcvvvvvvvvvvvxxv
This is not a class war issue
15.03.2007 22:32
For one thing, he was using a figure of speech - a very bad choice of figure, to be sure, but a careless comment out of context isn't enough to damn a man for racial hatred. Not in any society I want to be part of, anyway. (Remember the farce a few years ago over the word "niggardly"?)
And for another, he is an Australian for heaven's sake - the most classless people in the world - and has only been in the UK for 2 years or so. Ruling class? - don't be ridiculous.
Drafting his error into *your* class war is, itself, offensive.
Malocao
Your double standards are showing
15.03.2007 22:52
What, exactly, do you mean by this?
Jade, because she's not 100% white, is allowed to commit racial abuse?
Or Shilpa, because she's rich, doesn't deserve racial tolerance?
Playing the race card, then taking it back in the same breath - amazing cynicism, amazing inconsistency. Keep this stuff coming, I could do with a laugh.
Malocao