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P156KWJ

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saw a golliwog in a shop the other day :shock: thought they were banned cos of politics. for those who don't know / can't remember, you can work out why:
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I couldn't see nothing wrong with Gollywogs to be honest!

It was just another silly excuse to ban them, most middle-eastern people are more of a hint of dark brown instead of black.

Should everything containing the colors brown,black,white,pink or any other skin tone be banned just incase we 'Get Offended' - Don't ask me how, some people in this world are just picky!
 

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I was reported at work by a customer for telling them "when the engineer comes out, he will install the equipment". The fact that all our engineers are male is irrelevent...

I was publicly thrown off an Internet forum for using the term "woman" instead of "womyn", which my spell checker marked as incorrect spelling. :)
 

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One of the big problems with health and safety is it stems from european legislation. There are now so many laws that have been created that people are sometimes just to scared to do anything. We apparently are supposed to be in a blame free culture (??!?!). Which is fine until you start bringing stupid things like behavioural safety, which is monitored by someone who doesn't even know the job. Its like a builder asking a bank clerk if they are handling the money correctly. Or the bank clerk asking the builder if they should be using a trowl the way they are. I'm sure you can all guess what the would be!
 

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Baa baa Multicultural/Rainbow/Insert Non Offending Choice of word here - sheep. Anyone??

Brainstorms aren't allowed anymore, my local christian school which ever since it has opened has had a strict policy on the things it teaches, until a few years ago because two children from another minority joined the school. Now, Teaching Christianity is off the menu, because it would exclude these two, they aren't allowed in assembly because it teaches about god, they aint allowed to pray to god, but can spend time out of classes praying to their own god, but - they can't take them out of lessons whilst they teach Christianity in a CofE school, because it impacts on their learning.

Years back, one of my mums best friends was a police officer. Driving through a red light, a black woman came careering through at 50mph because the traffic had parted ready for the junction, smashed into the side of the police car. My mums mate was dead at the scene, the woman came out with a broken leg plus nearly half a mil, and all the police officers family got was a *sorry* we'll try not to let it happen again.

Turns out the woman was muslim, couldn't understand/read/speak english but it would be *racist* to hold an inquest when she couldn't speak or understand english, and had been through all the trauma of the accident.

That's madness
 
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It's just another issue that will never get resolved really.

I am in NO WAY RACIST, FACIST or hold any extreme right-wing views, but I disagree with calling different raced people (black, Oriental etc) 'coloured'.

I have three close black friends, and they don't care.

In my opinion, I'd rather be Black than Coloured. Coloured suggests I could be pink and green!

And if we so insist on 'coloured', why arn't us White people 'coloured'. Surely this labelling (White because we're white, Coloured because we're black) sounds like we're a bit superior or something. Why can't we be reclassified? The whole system is in dribs and drabs.

Your not allowed to say Blackboard anymore in classrooms..

It's pure idiocy.
 

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We can't be racist, but many racist things can be said against us...
 

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Actually I believe that it is 'coloured' that is considered the Racist term, rather than 'black,' etc.
 
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