Racism.....

[natas liah]

How is it defined?

[alicebear87]

In some academic circles it is believed that racism can only occur against a minority who have been historically oppressed and not in the reverse. Not sure I have made my mind up about then yet...

[mibn2cweus]

Racism is created by and proliferates in proportion to the actions of racist people. Racism is as mindless as a war that continues long after all sides have forgotten what is was they were fighting about.

Racism is the refusal to treat people as autonomous individuals responsible only for their own actions. Racism is why I hesitate to define myself as a member of the human race.

[Booldawg]

Racism is a card you play when life isnt going your way and you need a little something extra to boost you along, whether this be helping you to obtain housing, work or your chances of appearing on Big Brother.

[whiffey]

Racism is an unreasoned and unreasonable dislike of a particular racial group merely because of its race and irrespective of its behaviour which is not allowed to enter the equation in enlightened society.

When you follow the argument through it basically distills into Anything Black Good, All White Bad.

[ELVIS68]

Look no further than the BBC news readers or ITVs Trevor Mcdonald who gets away with calling Bernard Manning a fat white bastad

So long as he`s happy with being a black newsreading bastad then it`s fair play

[THECORBYLOON]

Ofcom investigated McDonald's remark and decided

" In the case of this programme, Sir Trevor McDonald obviously, and intentionally, drew on Bernard Manning�s own style of humour, which frequently played on the real or apparent prejudices of his audience. The comments were clearly intended to parody Manning�s own comedy, where he claimed he was not himself racist, but simply made �jokes� based on racial stereotypes. It was in such a context that Sir Trevor McDonald could therefore state that he did not consider Manning to be a racist but then went on to say that he was ��a fat white *******�.

Taking the above into account, therefore, we do not believe this specific expression went beyond the likely expectations of an audience for a satirical news-based comedy programme broadcast well after the watershed, and that any offence that may have been caused was justified by the context. "

[terambulan]

Racism is defind by indiginous outing colonialists.

[THECORBYLOON]

Manning was a well-known racist or do you not think so?

[DrFilth]

no

[brionon]

Who ?

[Ethel]

Bernard Manning certainly was a racist - it's not his fault.

He was too bigoted and ignorant to realise it.

[ELVIS68]

If Bernard Manning was a racist, does that mean everyone who`s seen him live and watched his videos and laughed, racist too?

[mibn2cweus]

Were they laughing with him or at him?

[naomi24]

I didn't laugh at him, or with him. Looked at from any angle, he just wasn't funny.

[fagidill]

How many of you laugh at IRISH JOKES, What's the difference????????????