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anahata@treewind.co.uk (anahata) wrote:

> The real absurdity is that those who take offence are mostly 
> political-
> correctness fanatics who seem to be taking offence on behalf of the 
> dark-
> skinned ethnic minorities they have appointed themselves to 
> represent.

The prejudice here is by the people who think that those minorities can't stand up
for themselves if they need to, and have to be helped because the poor little
things can't do it for themselves (and whether they want to be 'helped' or not).

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Yes, that's a very worthwhile point, that it is just as racist to take
offence on behalf of others at something that they themselves wouldn't
necessarily, and ought not, be offended by.

On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:31 +0100 (ope), nospam@see.sig.to.reply (Rafe
Culpin) wrote:
> 
> The prejudice here is by the people who think that those minorities can't stand up
> for themselves if they need to, and have to be helped because the poor little
> things can't do it for themselves (and whether they want to be 'helped' or not).

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On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:52:50 +0100, Java Jive  wrote:

>Yes, that's a very worthwhile point, that it is just as racist to take
>offence on behalf of others at something that they themselves wouldn't
>necessarily, and ought not, be offended by.
>
Well - its certainly bad-mannered. Whether it's racist depends on
whether the tone of your patronisation differs per race. The kind of
people we're talking about are probably indiscriminately insufferable.

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Dominic Cronin
Amsterdam