It's Ok To Be White, - Isn't It?

[Khandro]

If 'Black Lives Matter' (which they do) don't white ones too?

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/12/19/sickening-to-know-people-think-like-this-police-investigate-its-okay-to-be-white-signs-in-scotland/

[Old_Geezer]

"no complaint has been made to police"
So why are they poking their nose in, at taxpayers' expense we might add.

Assuming there's no further activity we've not been informed of, then clearly there's no hate in stating that it's ok to be white. Those making a fuss and claiming otherwise ought to contemplate their attitude.

Meanwhile one wonders what caused the feeling of need to tell folk it's ok. Does it not seem that way anymore ?

[pixie374]

I don't think most people do, khandro. I'm sure you have noticed yourself, that some groups of people, have had to deal with far more discrimination than others.
I am white myself, but if it ever genuinely gets to the point, that we really need to stand up for ourselves, I am sure, even I, might notice.

[douglas9401]

I've just checked with Police Scotland, managed to find a gainfully employed operative, he said yes but don't shout about it or everybody will start self identifying and it'll just get confusing.

[emmie]

they do,

[wolf63]

It is a strange story - the city in question is 95+% white and there appears to be no tension caused due to racial issues.

It is strange

[The Builder]

What I find interesting is, that it's a non-statement. It relies on assumptions to have any meaning at all.

It's rather like the old "have you stopped beating your wife" question.

[Togo]

Funny old World. Plod ignored Jasmin Alibhai-Brown when she said that she hoped that all white men were extinct in a hundred years time but are chasing poor Bill Stickers for saying that it's indeed OK to be white.(for now) Thing is they don't even know whether Bill Stickers is white or not. Will it be a hate crime if he/she is not white? Or a love crime? Haha

[dannyk13]

OG //there's no hate in stating that it's ok to be white.//
That depends on the reason for posting it. It originated in the White Supremacy Movement in the US.

[New Judge]

The thing is, it cannot be complained of if some people are beginning to believe that being white is some sort of crime.

Almost twenty years ago the Director-General of the BBC described his organisation as "hideously white":

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1104305.stm

The Grauniad (who else?) published an article last year suggesting that when newsrooms are dominated by white staff they "miss vital facts".

https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2018/nov/05/newsroom-diversity-media-race-journalism

It's therefore no surprise that there is a feeling in some quarters that being covered in white skin is some sort of criminal offence. That said, I can't help feeling that if an organisation was labelled by its CEO as "hideously black" or if I suggested that my local Caribbean restaurant was somehow deficient because it only employed black people, eyebrows may be raised.

[Mamyalynne]

Whoever has done it has done so to create a fuss, they got their wish didn't they?

[Khandro]

//Whoever has done it has done so to create a fuss, they got their wish didn't they?//
Isn't it the cops who are creating a fuss?

[youngmafbog]

It might be ok to be white, but it sure 'aint ok to be a white middle aged man !

[emmie]

nor at times a white middle aged woman, we start to become invisible....

[pixie374]

NJ, I think people would have to be exceptionally unaware and paranoid to actually believe that.

[hereIam]

I'm proud to be white.

[Old_Geezer]

Who said that ?

[pixie374]

Fgs. It is fine to be however you are. It is no longer fine to discriminate against people due to their colour or sex. Does anyone really think that is unfair? (And maybe look at the statistics before you try to claim it is now a crime to be middle-aged, white, heterosexual or male).
Are we really so self-entitled that we only notice when "other people" "appear" to get a chance?

[hereIam]

Who said what ?

[Togo]

"It's OK to be white" is either hate speech or combative or better still designed to "create a fuss". Whereas "Black lives matter" is a pithy statement of massive social importance and to be ingested and digested by all the intellectually challenged white deniers. Meehh. More Orwellian social manipulating and calculated projecting.

[rowanwitch]

Maybe we should identify ourselves by the colour chart shade we actually are. I have never met a truly white person or for that matter a black one....
A lesson learned from a little girl on a bus, pointing at mummy she said pink, to daddy black ( he was very very dark) then to herself with a big grin. Brown!