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Does anyone ever attempt to avoid eye contact with coloureds whilst in the street because they have a slight feeling that maybe if they see you making eye contact they may think you are a racist

or

describing something as black to a black person it just feels weird like they are scrutinising every word?

[Chris]

Originally Posted by MerryChristmas

Does anyone ever attempt to avoid eye contact with coloureds whilst in the street because they have a slight feeling that maybe if they see you making eye contact they may think you are a racist

or

describing something as black to a black person it just feels weird like they are scrutinising every word?

Who has the time to live life like that? If someone thinks you're racist just because you make eye contact with them or they take exception to using the word black to describe something that is black then it's them that has the problem. Don't waste your time tip toeing around because of it.

And if people are uncomfortable being on a bus with people of certain race or obvious religious persuasion because they're carrying backpacks then I don't think it's racist as such, just bloody ignorant.

[JaseyBoi]

Originally Posted by MerryChristmas

Does anyone ever attempt to avoid eye contact with coloureds whilst in the street because they have a slight feeling that maybe if they see you making eye contact they may think you are a racist

or

describing something as black to a black person it just feels weird like they are scrutinising every word?

I dont believe i Have to do this.....I feel im FORCED to do it...


And i dont for 1 minute believe we can just put elderly people thinking the way they think is 'bloody ignorant'...Media fear factor maybe but not simply ignorant...

[Tam o' Shantie]

to be fair, it's not just the term he used, he made an offensive generalisation about any south asian/indian person living in the UK. If he had said 'all black people are criminals' but didn't actually refer to them as 'niggers' would he be in the clear?

[Jamie]

Originally Posted by KimyReizeger

And stupid old bastards are stupid old bastards. There's no hope for him, why bother pestering? What would be achieved, were he prosecuted?

When I pay for a service I don't expect to be subjected to someone else's political views whatever they are. A bit of small talk, "where you off to tonight?" "crap weather" even asking what you do for a living fair enough, but why the fuck would you start spouting your politics to
a stranger / customer - that's Peter Dow behaviour. Would have been well over the top for this guy to have been found guilty, but if it makes Taxi drivers (or anyone dealing with customers) think twice about what they are saying then it has served a purpose I reckon.

[Jamie]

Originally Posted by Jamie

When I pay for a service I don't expect to be subjected to someone else's political views whatever they are.

But particularly when it's ignorant racist pish like this guy was talking.

[Stripey]

they should have prosecuted the fucker to send a message to these morons that it is not acceptable to talk like that, regardless of how they were brought up. It makes me sick every time I hear people up here using words like that in casual conversation, and the idea that it's ok because thats how their elders speak is a pathetic excuse.

[Jamie]

Originally Posted by Stripey

It makes me sick every time I hear people up here using words like that in casual conversation

The problem is by no means confined to the North East.

Originally Posted by Jamie

The problem is by no means confined to the North East.

On the top of it all Aberdeen is not a very racist city at all, grumpy, ignorant yes but quite tolerant

[Sue Denim..]

I think it's a sad world where I can't call someone a nasty name ... racist or not. Free country my fucking arse.