[Redway]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

With all due respect Redway, you've spent the entire thread telling people that because they're not part of your group they couldn't possibly understand discrimination you've faced which is fair enough on the one hand but you've also told another group (LGBT) that the discrimination they've faced isn't in the same league as yours......... isn't that a bit hypocritical?

And are you saying it’s right for black slavery to be trivialised because the same thing happened to the Scottish at one point?

These people don’t see themselves as unfairly disadvantaged because they’re Scottish. They’re perfectly happy to make light of how slavery affects people of colour today to prove a daft point about white men being victims too. And that is ignorant. I’m being as nice as I can but plenty of people in this thread have crossed their limits with things they obviously don’t know anything about. Whether they know they’ve stepped over the limit or are deliberately taking the piss is their business but there’s no other word for it than ignorance is there. Especially when some people on here don’t even want to know that they might not know the impact of what they’ve been saying on this thread.

I love how people are quick to jump on me for calling people ignorant when it’s pretty true in response to this thread. These are probably the same people who wouldn’t see anything wrong with touching a black girl’s hair and honestly wouldn’t see what was wrong in it. These are the same people that laugh at issues like racism and it’s nothing less than what I’ve called it.

That LGBT comment was in response to another person trying to minimalise racism by pointing out the obvious that LGBT people get discriminated against too.