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Old 10-11-2020, 11:40 AM #51
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That Old Peer
did not know her name
so said "The Indian"


He does not have time to find her name?
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.....hmmmmmm, turning away from or ignoring racism, as it were...is a form of enabling it, I feel...
Exactly this. Excusing this man based on age is enabling him, he's not some random man in the pub after a few beers spouting off he's in a position of power
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That Old Peer
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so said "The Indian"


He does not have time to find her name?
That is bull**** and honesty you should be ashamed of yourself for brushing it off. If he doesn't know her name then say vice president.
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If he doesn't know her name then say vice president.
Well exactly... referring to someone by their race if you don't know their name is a terrible excuse for racism, in that... it is itself quite a racist thing to do.

He didn't even say "The Indian lady" or whatever, using it as an adjective, he used it as a noun - "The Indian". The tone and intent is quite clear.
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Well exactly... referring to someone by their race if you don't know their name is a terrible excuse for racism, in that... it is itself quite a racist thing to do.

He didn't even say "The Indian lady" or whatever, using it as an adjective, he used it as a noun - "The Indian". The tone and intent is quite clear.
Yeah and he clearly knows a bit about her for him to be able to refer to her as Indian, I don't think anybody would assume she was Indian/of Indian heritage by looking at her so I don't believe for one minute that he didn't know what her name was
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...I feel as though it was also intentionally dismissive of her gender...he didn’t refer to Biden as ‘the American’...and that’s based on his own explanation of why his reference was as it was...Joe had a name, Kamala didn’t...and then he added a layer of racism...
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there are plenty people in foreign governments that i have no idea what their names are, and protocol always dictates that you refer to them by their title. Like the secretary of state, foreign secretary, PM, President or whatever

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Exactly this. Excusing this man based on age is enabling him, he's not some random man in the pub after a few beers spouting off he's in a position of power

May be this man is racist...I dont know anything about him. However people of his era grew up in a different dynamic to what we have now. I posted about my dad yesterday but its been taken down, it explained what you call an 'excuse'...but in fact its understanding and seeing the flip side of the coin.
I dont condone what this man said and maybe he needs to step down from his position...
Im sure if your grandparents used a word that today is Politically incorrect you would tell them so...or would you label them Racist...or by excusing them does that make you racist too (your own words).
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He claims not to know her name but knows she's part indian, despite the fact that anyone who didn't know much about her might be mistaken in thinking that she is black instead of mixed race....

He's a racist making excuses and people are trying to enable him by buying into his bull****.
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He claims not to know her name but knows she's part indian, despite the fact that anyone who didn't know much about her might be mistaken in thinking that she is black instead of mixed race....
True, I even knew plenty about her in terms of politics and that she was mixed race but couldn't have told you that she was part Indian before this thread. It's clearly something that has stood out to him about her, and that probably speaks volumes in itself.
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May be this man is racist...I dont know anything about him. However people of his era grew up in a different dynamic to what we have now. I posted about my dad yesterday but its been taken down, it explained what you call an 'excuse'...but in fact its understanding and seeing the flip side of the coin.
I dont condone what this man said and maybe he needs to step down from his position...
Im sure if your grandparents used a word that today is Politically incorrect you would tell them so...or would you label them Racist...or by excusing them does that make you racist too (your own words).
I can forgive some era speak such as when some of the patients I go to see call me a dollybird, it's clearly not meant derogatory towards me and I completely understand its old school lingo.

However, what this man wrote was clearly racist, he has done it before and will carry on being offensive and racist while people lazily allow it and give him a pass.
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That is bull**** and honesty you should be ashamed of yourself for brushing it off. If he doesn't know her name then say vice president.

Thats what the Old Peer
has stated.

He does not know her name


So "Indian"
is enough for him.


He is living in the past.
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To be fair every newsreader seems to pronounce her name in a different way so maybe he got confused
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To be fair every newsreader seems to pronounce her name in a different way so maybe he got confused
"Harris" isn't that complicated, he refereed to Biden by just his surname
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To be fair every newsreader seems to pronounce her name in a different way so maybe he got confused

No he Claims to not know Harris
her Surname
the easy way to name her



He is so old he lives in the past
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...that isn’t really fair or accurate to the many who ‘live in the past’ who don’t make such racist references...someone shows racism because of their mindset, not because of their age...
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...that isn’t really fair or accurate to the many who ‘live in the past’ who don’t make such racist references...someone shows racism because of their mindset, not because of their age...


The Problem is
that Old Peer
does not know he is being Racist.............
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The Problem is
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does not know he is being Racist.............

Lord Kilclooney accused of racism after calling Taoiseach ‘typical Indian’...


https://www.irishtimes.com/news/poli...dian-1.3480151

...in 2018, Arista...I think that he fully knows that his references are racist...but doesn’t seem to feel that he needs to address that mindset...he seems fine with it and that isn’t because of his age, it’s because of his personal thoughts...
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...that isn’t really fair or accurate to the many who ‘live in the past’ who don’t make such racist references...someone shows racism because of their mindset, not because of their age...

...but many dont realise that they are being 'racist' because its a language they have lived with for most of their lives.

Im not excusing this guy because it seems he has done it before...its unacceptable but we should try and understand that these terms are used by the older generation but it doesnt make them racist.
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I think the Old Peer
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I don't think its to do with his age at all, more entitled ignorance.

He is woke enough to Tweet, he will know that anything racial is never welcomed.
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You can not get rid of those Old Peers
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I don't think its to do with his age at all, more entitled ignorance.

He is woke enough to Tweet, he will know that anything racial is never welcomed.


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I don't think its to do with his age at all, more entitled ignorance.

He is woke enough to Tweet, he will know that anything racial is never welcomed.
...yeah, I agree, Annie...because he’s lived all of those years/decades etc in between ‘back in the day’ and now...it isn’t something that had just jumped from a specific mindset to another in a fleeting way ...?..it’s a very lengthy progression of time from any ‘perceived acceptability’ back in the day to that of now...and that person has experienced...(hopefully..)...all of that life experience and wisdom in between...
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he said sorry so best to let it be and move on
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