Election Year or Fear!

[Andy_Faber]

Mm interesting that our Mod expresses strong views that people waving Palestinian flags are antisemetic, and was very quick and heavy with me for inadvertantly saying that 40% of those rioting had had contact with the Police for domestic, child abuse and ***ual offences, when I missed out the word "arrested", although statistically it is likely some of those not arrested had similar records, even threatening to delete my post, if Id idn't correct it. yet seems quite unconcerned by GP's blatant racist and Islamaphobic post.

Sorry Swale I don’t see such a post, what’s the post number?

You seem more grumpy than normal, has someone nicked your placard?

[swaledale]

Sorry Swale I don’t see such a post, what’s the post number?

You seem more grumpy than normal, has someone nicked your placard?

Posts 287 and 288 in the One Liner thread, though to be fair I have no real objection to post 288, I don't think its funny but that doesn't mean its offensive or racist. 287 however is a broad brush Islamaphobic comment which should be as unaccetable as any other slur on a group of people simply becuase of their beliefs.

Grumpy? On the contrary I'm well happy, especially this morning that the overall progressive vote is clearly bigger than the narrow minded bigot vote, there is hope that the negative, damaging and largely untrue anti foreigner, turn back the clock to the 1950's "vision" isn't it seems what the majority of people in this country want.

Of course thee remains a rump of people willing to blame "immigration" for the issues facing the UK, but thats their problem, not mine.

Whether the Labour party heed this warning is another matter of course, but thats up to them.

[ramAnag]

Posts 287 and 288 in the One Liner thread, though to be fair I have no real objection to post 288, I don't think its funny but that doesn't mean its offensive or racist. 287 however is a broad brush Islamaphobic comment which should be as unaccetable as any other slur on a group of people simply becuase of their beliefs.

258 is probably worse. Like Swale I’m not particularly offended by GP’s slightly ‘third form’ and bigoted ‘humour’ but he rapidly takes umbrage when the boot is on the other foot so clarification about acceptability would be useful.
Apart from some of TTR’s initial contributions it’s been a harmless and lighthearted thread, let’s keep it like that.

[Andy_Faber]

Posts 287 and 288 in the One Liner thread, though to be fair I have no real objection to post 288, I don't think its funny but that doesn't mean its offensive or racist. 287 however is a broad brush Islamaphobic comment which should be as unaccetable as any other slur on a group of people simply becuase of their beliefs.

I saw both and although I didn’t find them funny I don’t find most of the jokes here funny

One mentions immigrants, they aren’t a protected group, nothing to see here

One mentions Islam and as there is no definition of Islamophobia (yet) I cant adjudicate as a non-specialist in that area. I’ve also seen other groups and faiths used in the same manner here with no comment. Islam Doesn’t appear to be the butt of the joke in any case, rather just part of the setup, the judiciary do and they aren’t a protected group so again nothing to see here although it’s probably in worse taste than the other one. I may ask my Muslim family member what he thinks later

[swaledale]

I saw both and although I didn’t find them funny I don’t find most of the jokes here funny

One mentions immigrants, they aren’t a protected group, nothing to see here

One mentions Islam and as there is no definition of Islamophobia (yet) I cant adjudicate as a non-specialist in that area. I’ve also seen other groups and faiths used in the same manner here with no comment. Islam Doesn’t appear to be the butt of the joke in any case, rather just part of the setup, the judiciary do and they aren’t a protected group so again nothing to see here although it’s probably in worse taste than the other one. I may ask my Muslim family member what he thinks later

As Mod it is perfectly within your remit to remove a post which is explicitly racist, which one of those jokes is. So your cop out about Islamaphobia is pathetic. Your judgement does not reflect well on you, but regrettably I am not surprised.