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@ Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008 – 09:43:35 am
"A racist action is one which a person perceives to be racially motivated."
This statement was just a few minutes ago quoted by Rod Liddle on the Andrew Marr Show.
Father and I looked at each other across the breakfast table, and I knew we were both thinking the same thing, so be warned - in future if anyone is mean to us we are going to play the race card "You're being mean to me because you perceive me as boring because I'm partly Belgian."
Kibitz
Where I come from (Cleethorpes) the locals are said to 'have longer pockets than the Yorkies'. One friend there of French Jewish extraction never seemed to have any cash on him when it came to collections for presents etc. The standard comment was "At least he isn't Scottish".
I suspect that I could be locked up for anything as non-PC as this comment.
I should in fairness add that the friend in question was good as gold paying back whatever cash he borrowed to cover such donations or, for larger sums, writing a cheque
Kibitz
Lol ...
Brilliant.
At least I’m not Scottish.
I must remember that one.
Shalom ...
You .. er .. naughty non PC person.
Adam ... x 
skip2468
Here in NZ if any person/s of the great majority race dare criticize anyone of a minority group that is politically deemed to be racist.
If a minority group person/s criticizes a majority member/s that is politically approved due to the exercising of civil rights.
This is our queer form of democracy that we have been subjected to, for far too many years.
Quote fom two senior colleagues now retired:
At staff meeting when the request went round to report anything discriminatory, one would turn to the other and say,
"Anything to add, you Irish bog-trotter?"
"Nothing at all, you Welsh sheep-shagger"
On the same staff at one time there was a blonde lady of German extraction who always put herself down as 'black carribean' on those forms they send out every now and again to monitor discrimination on the grounds "Why not? I love the music."
On the same forms the 'Irish bog-trotter' went for the strictly accurate and put percentages against the 'White British', 'Irish' and 'Other European' boxes - a habit I have since copied.
I occasionally claim to be native American, since one of my cousins is married to a native American and, as I understand it, by tribal tradition the whole family becomes a member of the tribe, though I'm not sure it extends as far as cousins. Mind you, with my extended cousinship and their spouses, if you went with that idea I could claim to be almost any race I wanted.
loiswakeman
We got fed up with silly questionnaires every term at our pottery evening classes (while they were still council-funded - before we went private in desperation). One term, we all said we were Albanians with special needs. I wonder if anyone ever read them and wondered at that extraordinary statistical blip!
Foxwriter
As a Germano-Welsh-Yorkshire-Finnish Englishman I find your comments quite racist and insulting.
Oh sorry. Hang on a moment....
I can't claim compenastion from you.
So therefore, it doesn't matter.
Carry on.... 
Does it help that my great-grandfather was Welsh?
Foxwriter
Welsh?
As he most likely knew my great-grandmother we must be related!
Even less likely can sue you for injured feelings.
Have you no compassion - are you trying to put the no-win no-fee lawyers out of work?
He was the Rev'd David Jones (son of William and Mary Jones) - so I'm sure you will be able to find someone of a similar name climbing your family tree.
Foxwriter
I would rather not look too far up my family tree having seen what has dropped to the ground.
I recall the name Evan ap Seven ap Jenkins being mentioned.
loiswakeman
The trouble with this is that anyone who isn't straight, white, English-speaking and able can play the discrimination card as soon as they find a tiny grievance.
The fact that they might be very unpleasant, rubbish at their job, bullies, incompetent or whatever is quite eclipsed by the looming threat of PC retribution.
As someone who can tick all the wrong boxes, I can never find anything to hide behind!
There is always sexual discrimination: have you been held back / taunted / bullied because you are a woman?
Or age: have you been held back / taunted / bullied because you are too old?
Have you been held back / taunted / bullied because you are to young?
Or inventing an entirely new minority group - pedants, fans of woodchip wallpaper, foragers - it's all grist to the mill.
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Lol ...
Excellent plan.
Don’t laugh ..
But I have a friend ..
Who once called me mean.
Then later apologised riddled with guilt.
Adam ... x
P.S. Er .. Does that make more sense if I say I’m a Jew?