Racism

Rights roulette

January 20, 2011

Race – Sex – Religion. Three powerful forces in society. Which ones trumps the other? Race encompasses ethnicity so you can be racist to French people by calling them Frogs even if both of you are blonde blue eyed Aryans. You can also be labelled racist even if the “victim” doesn’t perceive it as such [...]

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Divining Loyalties

December 14, 2009

When Algeria qualified for the World Cup for the first time since 1986 in their match against Egypt, the violence that followed was not confined to Khartoum. Several thousand miles away, in the back streets of Marseilles and Paris, thousands of Algerians poured onto the streets chanting ‘Vive l’Algérie’. Throwing bottles, stones, and fireworks at [...]

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The Hierarchy of Discrimination.

May 16, 2009
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The Guardian published this photograph under the title ‘Gay porn’ movie raises ripples on far right – hmmn, may well have raised a few ‘nipples’, left and right, never mind ‘ripples’.

That was not the only archly camp and ambiguous comment in an article whose intentions seem far from ambiguous.

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See You Jimmy……

March 15, 2009

The most senior Labour Party official in Britain was caught up in a bizarre racism row last night after he was accused of insulting people who speak with a Scottish accent. A formal complaint of racism was made against Labour General Secretary Ray Collins when he asked for a ‘translation’ of comments made by a [...]

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