has anyone got the popcorn smilie?

BBBS <- a tin hat for ya mate

It's okay, I don't think you'd have won one anyway.

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Originally posted by charmer:

BBBS <- a tin hat for ya mate

lol, i'm a mix so it doesnt discriminate against me , i just cant believe its legal.

So no lesbian little people then?

I know nothing about it, so will refrain from commenting. Based on the OP though, perhaps 'Diversity' is not the right name for it?

Has anyone got any coke to wash the popcorn down with?

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Originally posted by Big Brothers Big Scam:

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Originally posted by charmer:

BBBS <- a tin hat for ya mate

lol, i'm a mix so it doesnt discriminate against me , i just cant believe its legal.

im a fair old mixed race person-and i know what youre saying-in brum we have similar things ie.day centres for asians-no day centre for white europeans..asian buisness people awards..that sort of stuff
and it can cause bother-but to be honest, it doesnt bother me
no doubt some people will say youre wrong to even question its legality..but..there you go

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Originally posted by charmer:

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Originally posted by Big Brothers Big Scam:

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Originally posted by charmer:

BBBS <- a tin hat for ya mate

lol, i'm a mix so it doesnt discriminate against me , i just cant believe its legal.

im a fair old mixed race person-and i know what youre saying-in brum we have similar things ie.day centres for asians-no day centre for white europeans..asian buisness people awards..that sort of stuff
and it can cause bother-but to be honest, it doesnt bother me
no doubt some people will say youre wrong to even question its legality..but..there you go

I do if I'm honest. If there's an award for plumbers, I'd go along if I knew one and cheer them on, I wouldn't expect a prize as I'm not a plumber.

it's about time people started lobbying the racial equality commission,
the bnp have been forced to accept non whites and yet the nation of islam and the black police federation have not been made to accept whites.

imagine the bloody upcry if the award thing was only open to whites!

*leaves tin hat, body armour, sticks and a dollop of humour*

*tiptoes out*

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I do if I'm honest. If there's an award for plumbers, I'd go along if I knew one and cheer them on, I wouldn't expect a prize as I'm not a plumber.

EH?

What's that got to do with the price of fish?

But I agree that the legality of the awards would seem questionable to me....and more than a little bit insulting to the recipients...I'd not like to get an award just because I fitted a certain profile rather than on overall merit.

Isn't it celebrating our multicultural mix, with diversity meaning difference or variety? In this case our various ethnic minorities as distinct from the majority.

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Originally posted by ContessaQ:
the bnp have been forced to accept non whites

That's a new one on me.

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Originally posted by Daniel J*:
Isn't it celebrating our multicultural mix, with diversity meaning difference or variety? In this case our various ethnic minorities as distinct from the majority.

how can it be 'multicultural' if one culture is conspicuously absent?

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Originally posted by FGG Aka Crocodile Rock:
But I agree that the legality of the awards would seem questionable to me....and more than a little bit insulting to the recipients...I'd not like to get an award just because I fitted a certain profile rather than on overall merit.

The awards are all for exceptional things, just exceptional things where the person getting the award is from an ethnic minority. They have things like Entrepreneur Of The Year and Young Journalist Of The Year.

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Originally posted by jelly vodkafish:

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Originally posted by Daniel J*:
Isn't it celebrating our multicultural mix, with diversity meaning difference or variety? In this case our various ethnic minorities as distinct from the majority.

how can it be 'multicultural' if one culture is conspicuously absent?

Save your winking. I'm saying it's about ethnic minorities and the majority-minority relationship, not multiculturalism itself.

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Originally posted by Daniel J*:

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Originally posted by FGG Aka Crocodile Rock:
But I agree that the legality of the awards would seem questionable to me....and more than a little bit insulting to the recipients...I'd not like to get an award just because I fitted a certain profile rather than on overall merit.

The awards are all for exceptional things, just exceptional things where the person getting the award is from an ethnic minority. They have things like Entrepreneur Of The Year and Young Journalist Of The Year.

but why single out ethnic minorities? why not have the awards for everybody?

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Originally posted by Daniel J*:

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Originally posted by jelly vodkafish:

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Originally posted by Daniel J*:
Isn't it celebrating our multicultural mix, with diversity meaning difference or variety? In this case our various ethnic minorities as distinct from the majority.

how can it be 'multicultural' if one culture is conspicuously absent?

Save your winking. I'm saying it's about ethnic minorities and the majority-minority relationship, not multiculturalism itself.

I don't think things like this help the majority-minority relationship though

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Originally posted by jelly vodkafish:


but why single out ethnic minorities? why not have the awards for everybody?

Thank goodness you stated the obvious VJ

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Originally posted by Garage Joe:

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Originally posted by ContessaQ:
the bnp have been forced to accept non whites

That's a new one on me.

That's because there seems to be a muddle with fact.

Anti racists activists, some MP's, and the Equal Opportunities commision are challenging and looking into BNP's whites only policy, and thier racist propaganda. No one has "Forced" them to do anything.

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Originally posted by jelly vodkafish:

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Originally posted by Daniel J*:
The awards are all for exceptional things, just exceptional things where the person getting the award is from an ethnic minority. They have things like Entrepreneur Of The Year and Young Journalist Of The Year.

but why single out ethnic minorities? why not have the awards for everybody?

Probably because it wouldn't be about the majority-minorities relationship then. Simples.

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Originally posted by Garage Joe:

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Originally posted by ContessaQ:
the bnp have been forced to accept non whites

That's a new one on me.

it was in the press last year or early this year i think.
just google white bnp members and it will come up.

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Originally posted by Liverpoollass:

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Originally posted by jelly vodkafish:
but why single out ethnic minorities? why not have the awards for everybody?

Thank goodness you stated the obvious VJ

How nostalgic.

I feel as though we are back at Spyka's

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Originally posted by ContessaQ:

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Originally posted by Garage Joe:

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Originally posted by ContessaQ:
the bnp have been forced to accept non whites

That's a new one on me.

it was in the press last year or early this year i think.
just google white bnp members and it will come up.

*Have a spade*
You are turtelly wrong. Do you people have some sorta pressure group website where you are fed these non-stories?

But how would people react if you had an awards ceremony for which only white people would qualify? Or the White Police Association? I think people would be horrified. Instantly you think of South African Apartheid or the Deep Southern States of the USA back a few decades.

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Originally posted by jelly vodkafish:

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Originally posted by Daniel J*:

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Originally posted by FGG Aka Crocodile Rock:
But I agree that the legality of the awards would seem questionable to me....and more than a little bit insulting to the recipients...I'd not like to get an award just because I fitted a certain profile rather than on overall merit.

The awards are all for exceptional things, just exceptional things where the person getting the award is from an ethnic minority. They have things like Entrepreneur Of The Year and Young Journalist Of The Year.

but why single out ethnic minorities? why not have the awards for everybody?

Sorry was in the kitchen...this is what I meant...the other examples are awards based on what you do/have done etc and not on colour which is something you have no control over and therefore is not an achievement,.....I've worded it badly but I know what I mean...

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Originally posted by Liverpoollass:
I feel as though we are back at Spyka's

blimey - there's some sort of weird telepathy going on here

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Originally posted by jelly vodkafish:

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Originally posted by Liverpoollass:
I feel as though we are back at Spyka's

blimey - there's some sort of weird telepathy going on here

I feel dead sorry for the poor oppressed white man. Gotta be real tough for them

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Originally posted by Garage Joe:

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Originally posted by ContessaQ:

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Originally posted by Garage Joe:

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Originally posted by ContessaQ:
the bnp have been forced to accept non whites

That's a new one on me.

it was in the press last year or early this year i think.
just google white bnp members and it will come up.

*Have a spade*
You are turtelly wrong. Do you people have some sorta pressure group website where you are fed these non-stories?

it gives links to articles written by the press regarding the bnp having to accept non whites, newspapers like the telegraph.
i do not visit any of your so called pressure group sites.

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Originally posted by ContessaQ:

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Originally posted by Garage Joe:

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Originally posted by ContessaQ:

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Originally posted by Garage Joe:

quote:

Originally posted by ContessaQ:
the bnp have been forced to accept non whites

That's a new one on me.

it was in the press last year or early this year i think.
just google white bnp members and it will come up.

*Have a spade*
You are turtelly wrong. Do you people have some sorta pressure group website where you are fed these non-stories?

it gives links to articles written by the press regarding the bnp having to accept non whites, newspapers like the telegraph.
i do not visit any of your so called pressure group sites.

I don't have any pressure group sites but I can now reveal that last year I was at our regional businessperson of the year awards. I can report that there were no members of the employee class outside saying that were bigotted against them.

if i were in the mood for a fight, would this be the right place to sit :EEK:

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Originally posted by electric6:
I feel dead sorry for the poor oppressed white man. Gotta be real tough for them

I don't think it's about oppression, I think it's about double-standards

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Originally posted by electric6:
I feel dead sorry for the poor oppressed white man. Gotta be real tough for them

dreadful.

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Originally posted by Garage Joe:

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Originally posted by ContessaQ:

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Originally posted by Garage Joe:

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Originally posted by ContessaQ:

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Originally posted by Garage Joe:

quote:

Originally posted by ContessaQ:
the bnp have been forced to accept non whites

That's a new one on me.

it was in the press last year or early this year i think.
just google white bnp members and it will come up.

*Have a spade*
You are turtelly wrong. Do you people have some sorta pressure group website where you are fed these non-stories?

it gives links to articles written by the press regarding the bnp having to accept non whites, newspapers like the telegraph.
i do not visit any of your so called pressure group sites.

I don't have any pressure group sites but I can now reveal that last year I was at our regional businessperson of the year awards. I can report that there were no members of the employee class outside saying that were bigotted against them.

That's what I meant with my example about the plumbers, which wasn't universally understood.

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Originally posted by Garage Joe:

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Originally posted by ContessaQ:

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Originally posted by Garage Joe:

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Originally posted by ContessaQ:

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Originally posted by Garage Joe:

quote:

Originally posted by ContessaQ:
the bnp have been forced to accept non whites

That's a new one on me.

it was in the press last year or early this year i think.
just google white bnp members and it will come up.

*Have a spade*
You are turtelly wrong. Do you people have some sorta pressure group website where you are fed these non-stories?

it gives links to articles written by the press regarding the bnp having to accept non whites, newspapers like the telegraph.
i do not visit any of your so called pressure group sites.

I don't have any pressure group sites but I can now reveal that last year I was at our regional businessperson of the year awards. I can report that there were no members of the employee class outside saying that were bigotted against them.

yeah but if it had been a white only or black only business person award then it might have caused a few raised eyebrows.

I think you have to read between the lines about the motivations for this event. They're promoting role models and leaders to inspire members of ethnic minorities in a country where the overwhelming majority are white British.

As ever in these race discussions, I seem to singularly fail to get across that race issues are about relations of power rather than simple ethnic differences. In other words, while a white Brit may experience racist interactions as an individual in Britain, minority to majority racism is not the same as majority to minority racism. It seems glaringly obvious to me but perhaps I'm just odd.

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Originally posted by Garage Joe:

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Originally posted by ContessaQ:

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Originally posted by Garage Joe:

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Originally posted by ContessaQ:

quote:

Originally posted by Garage Joe:

quote:

Originally posted by ContessaQ:
the bnp have been forced to accept non whites

That's a new one on me.

it was in the press last year or early this year i think.
just google white bnp members and it will come up.

*Have a spade*
You are turtelly wrong. Do you people have some sorta pressure group website where you are fed these non-stories?

it gives links to articles written by the press regarding the bnp having to accept non whites, newspapers like the telegraph.
i do not visit any of your so called pressure group sites.

I don't have any pressure group sites but I can now reveal that last year I was at our regional businessperson of the year awards. I can report that there were no members of the employee class outside saying that were bigotted against them.

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Originally posted by jelly vodkafish:

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Originally posted by electric6:
I feel dead sorry for the poor oppressed white man. Gotta be real tough for them

I don't think it's about oppression, I think it's about double-standards

*Devils advocate hat*
If minority groups hadn't been oppressed for years there wouldn't have been any need for such ceremonies/awards.

In any case I don't get why folks get their knickers in a knot. Are able bodied folks gonna demand they be in the paralymics?

Are nurses gonna moan they didn't get engineer of the year or whatever?

It's such a crappy thing to worry about.