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Flying Dagger

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sirdanrhodes said:
Shit, Jade Goody died, why didn't she milk the media for all it's worth?
um... she sold everything she could - her wedding to a man who is now in prison, her last moments, and even after she died all the glossy trash was spouting "our angel, how we shall miss her, a champion of the working class"
when in truth no one in the whole country gave a shit.
 

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Craziness is bad. We should fight it wherever we find it! Unless it's the craziness in the inherent humour of putting someone down for being different to the majority. That's good craziness!
 

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Man, when I read the title of the thread I thought you ment Personl Comuter. So when I was reading the body of text, I was like what the hell is he on about?!

OT

Racism will always be relative to its context.
 

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thedelightfulme said:
Now that is racial slur.
Not really, Jade Goody was white trash, it was more of an accurate observation than racial slur.

As far as I can remember, Shilpa Shetty does not resemble a poppudom.
 

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Flying Dagger said:
sirdanrhodes said:
Shit, Jade Goody died, why didn't she milk the media for all it's worth?
um... she sold everything she could - her wedding to a man who is now in prison, her last moments, and even after she died all the glossy trash was spouting "our angel, how we shall miss her, a champion of the working class"
when in truth no one in the whole country gave a shit.
It was sarcasm matey...
 

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people don't seem to realise that racism against white people is a serious problem these days... look at Zimbabwe, for example, white farmers are being driven off their land (who originally took the land by force during the British Empire, admitedly), i wouldn't be suprised if racial murder was going on against white people as well
 

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sirdanrhodes said:
Flying Dagger said:
sirdanrhodes said:
Shit, Jade Goody died, why didn't she milk the media for all it's worth?
um... she sold everything she could - her wedding to a man who is now in prison, her last moments, and even after she died all the glossy trash was spouting "our angel, how we shall miss her, a champion of the working class"
when in truth no one in the whole country gave a shit.
It was sarcasm matey...
yeah... i thought it might be, but i wanted to make it quite clear to the 'mericans that the media's view does not represent everyone in britains view.
 

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Simalacrum said:
people don't seem to realise that racism against white people is a serious problem these days... look at Zimbabwe, for example, white farmers are being driven off their land (taken from them by force during the British Empire, admitedly), i wouldn't be suprised if racial murder was going on against white people as well
How does insulting minorities in your country help white farmers in Zimbabwe? It's anti political correctness gone mad, I tell you.
 
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thedelightfulme said:
Not long ago here in britain Jade Goody was called a racist for calling an Indian woman "Shilpa Poppudom" now, im from cornwall so if you called me "James pasty" I'd laugh at you.
Pasty doesn't carry the racist and stereotypical connotations that poppadum does.

Example: You couldn't get away with calling a black person John Fried Chicken or George Watermelon.
 

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Onyx Oblivion said:
You have to be nice to the minorities. Even though they aren't so "minor" anymore.

That's just the way the world works.
Yes don't you miss the good old days when you could abuse someone you out numbered fair and square with out all these 'do gooders' getting in the way.

What [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism]

A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery]

Shame [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Griffiths]
 

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Eskay said:
Onyx Oblivion said:
You have to be nice to the minorities. Even though they aren't so "minor" anymore.

That's just the way the world works.
Yes don't you miss the good old days when you could abuse someone you out numbered fair and square with out all these 'do gooders' getting in the way.

What [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism]

A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery]

Shame [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Griffiths]
Let's not forget how everyone hates the Nazis for no good reason! What did they ever do that was so bad?

I was merely stating that you must be nice to minorities or else you'll be accused of those things you linked to or worse.
 

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Guys, guys: It's just how it works. We can't use racial slurs, but non-white people can. It's compensation for years of slavery and apartheid. You can't have your cake and eat it (if by cake you mean economic world domination and by eating it you mean calling people niggers).
 

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Onyx Oblivion said:
Let's not forget how everyone hates the Nazis for no good reason! What did they ever do that was so bad?

I was merely stating that you must be nice to minorities or else you'll be accused of those things you linked to or worse.
I'm not going to argue how oppressed you feel, but ask you what did political correctness ever do to you? Show me on this golliwog doll where it touched you.....
 
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jesus christ will you stop all this jade goody bashing

I'm not going to get into the racism bit, i'm afraid i won't be able to keep my temper in the face of stubborn childish idiocy but as for jade.

Yes she was annoying, yes she was more than a bit of an idiot, and I honestly believe she was too much of a fool to realize how what she did on national telivision counted as Racism as opposed to just being a ***** however.

She was a woman who found herself in the limelight of the british media and she took them for all that they were worth; good for her. if people wanted to pay you a few thousand pounds to have someone ghost write your tips on loosing weight (less than an afternoons worth of work) and a couple of photos are you going to say no? of course you frigging aren't!

And don't blame her, who was it that kept her famous, the 2-bit celebrity magazines which kept on writing about her, if it wasn't for their continued attention then she would have disappeared into anonymity like the rest of those big brother freaks.

in short there was an opportunity to make a lot of money with comparatively little effort and she, (a woman who never had much money) took it HAZAH!

As for the media attention she got over her final days, do you honestly think someone wants film cameras around when they're going through chemo? let's consider the options

1) a person is so up themselves that they want everyone to watch them deteriorate, as their hair clumps and falls out and they suffer not only from the pain of the cancer but from the violent sickness the Chemo brings; they want this because of their ego.

2) a person realises they have brought up two children in a certain lifestyle and will need to provide for their future, if possible retaining that lifestyle, this requires money money the papers and tv crews would give.

3) someone who is knocking on deaths door realises that they had an opportunity to do something when they got famous but instead it was all about them so in their final days they go through great pains to make sure the dangers of cervical cancer (a perfectly preventable cancer) are fully understood.


now i don't know which of the last two it is but having had 3 loved ones go through chemo I can tell you it sure as hell isn't because she wanted the attention
 

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Eskay said:
Onyx Oblivion said:
Let's not forget how everyone hates the Nazis for no good reason! What did they ever do that was so bad?

I was merely stating that you must be nice to minorities or else you'll be accused of those things you linked to or worse.
I'm not going to argue how oppressed you feel, but ask you what did political correctness ever do to you? Show me on this golliwog doll where it touched you.....
*points at the heart*

It touched my heart...
 

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Onyx Oblivion said:
Eskay said:
Onyx Oblivion said:
Let's not forget how everyone hates the Nazis for no good reason! What did they ever do that was so bad?

I was merely stating that you must be nice to minorities or else you'll be accused of those things you linked to or worse.
I'm not going to argue how oppressed you feel, but ask you what did political correctness ever do to you? Show me on this golliwog doll where it touched you.....
*points at the heart*

It touched my heart...
Haha, legendary response. *Buys you an ethnically diverse choc chip cookie*
 

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I dont think specific racism (against say all blacks) is a problem any more, i think its vaired. Everyone has made a HUGE deal about Obama being president, when to be honest, he seemed the only candidate with a brain, and thank God bush is gone.

The problem is when everyone views different cultures as different race's. We are all HUMAN.

I think people may have misunderstood my question. it isnt "Why are we getting picked on?"
its "why isnt it equal?"
But then, to sort that out, politicians wouldnt be politicians and it would rain chocolate and jesus would be a pink unicorn made out of jelly.

yum.