Do you feel that the race card gets played a bit much nowadays?

Question

Ok ok so we've had enough of the BB saga, but Dont you feel that people cry racist a little too often lately? When comments such as ''you aint a princess from neverland-your a normal person like the rest of us'' are deemed a racist when it was aimed at a snob, things are going a bit too far. Jade has apparently admitted to making racist comments but come on, she believes what she is told by others. This is just in a long line of events that make me feel that people cry race to often, or are now 'oversensitive'' of the issue.It was also said that Jade was being racist because she was swearing infront of Shilpa and in Shilpas culture swearing at people is racist. No, this is just offensive. Let me know what you think?

Frasier, I agree that each and every situation should be listened to and dealt with accordingly. What I am referring to is the fact that people will shout 'racist or racism' at the drop of a hat, without listening and exploring the situation. You understand?

Do you see what I mean? I get called a ''Nazi'' because I have an opinion and dont agree that race should be used as attack and defence all the time. It is you who needs to get a life.

I agree with you jay c, i too am from an Irish background so i understand exactly what you are saying. These people are rude, ignorant and thick, my annoyance is where comments are made, such as, if i said a 'white' person was smelly, I would be being a bit insulting but probably telling the truth. Whereas if I called an Indian person 'smelly' I would be called a racist because people make up their own minds to believe that i ''probably'' meant they smelled of curry or onions or something therefore I am being racist. Some people believe that when we insult people of a different race or colour that we are automatically being racist, even if the same could be said about someone of our own race.

Answer 1

i do agree with you hun, the race card does get played far too often and your frightened to say anything incase it gets taken the wrong way and you get called a racist. jade isnt a rasict she is just loud and agressive, whereas danielles "**** off back home" comment was racist but she probably didnt realise what she had said cos she is thick as s**t. :0) p.s your not a nazi babe, theres just really stupid people on here xx

Answer 2

The brass tax of the situation is this. Jade Goody is incredibley stupid. She has been voted the most stupid person to ever enter BB on shows in the past. She is an ignorant loudmouth, but I don't think she is a racist.

Her remarks were culturally prejudice, yes, she behaved like a school yard bully, yes, but racist? I'm not so sure. I would level accusations of racism at Danielle and Joe before I would at the big idiot Jade, because they have the brain power to see what Jade was saying could be interpreted as racism, as opposed to ignorance, and they did nothing to correct her. She thought she was on a role and had the support of the majority, and like any idiot played to the crowd because she knew no better.

It was a clash of the lowest type of working class British culture, with a much higher class of Indian culture. I'm Irish and when I'm in England, and when I come into contact with people like Jade Goody, the term Paddy gets bandied about, which is pig ignorant, but I can differentiate between when it is said out of ignorance and when it is used in a racist fashion.

When I was in London I was working with this other Irish guy, who was from a kinda Jade Goody background. He thought it was hilarious imitating an Indian accent in a Burger King we were in one night. I gave him a bollicking and told him if he wanted to pull racist **** like that to **** off and stop embarassing the rest of us. He was genuinely upset, because he douldn't see how he'd been racist. I had to drag him back into the Burger King and ask the guy behind the counter, who responded quite calmly, that yes it was racist. The guy I was with was stunned. He was a bit thick, just like Jade.

If people who know better don't stand up and tell stupid people that they're being racist or culturally prejudice, the dummies think that their behaviour is fine, and just a bit of a laugh, which it isn't. If you don't educate them, how the hell do you expect them to act in an educated manner?

Answer 3

Here we go...I am amazed how the phrase 'playing the race card' is so widely used when it is known to be one used by racists like the BNP.

What using that phrase does is undermine and dismiss any complaint a black person might make. I know a woman who has been systematically harrassed on the basis of her nationality over a period of 11 years now...Everytime she says anything about it she is always accused of 'playing the race card'.

What we have to do is LISTEN to each and every situation and judge it on its merits rather than using this blanket of denial called the race card.

We as the majority white British people need to understand that just having an argument with someone who is black is not racist...having an argument with someone BECAUSE they are black...IS!

EDIT:

I am a Trade Union Officer with 25 years experience in representing discrimination cases both in the workplace and in the courts. I think I might understand!!!!!

Answer 4

For the last 2 years all i heard from the newspapers and TV is 'muslim this and foreigner that',now it's gone the other way you don't like it? You and the rest of the nazis on here should 'get a life'.

Answer 5

You tell em Kelly D....i remember YOU now i was talking to you just before i got disconnected back in october.

Answer 6

Yes it is, I too am fed up of hearing it being called racism if a coloured person gets some flack. Yet if its a white person getting flack its only banter.

Answer 7

This question is disrespectful to my culture.