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No, as I clearly stated, I am claiming that the statement you made which I have highlighted in bold is wrong.
Fuck me this is hard.
Careful, if you keep nesting these quotes someone might start complaining that the colour of the quotes is racist!
Oops, I'm doing Twataboutery again!
Sorry if this appears blunt, are you implying that racism based on skin colour is worse than other sorts of racism?
Incidentally, I am white, and have been subject to abuse based on my skin colour.
A friend of mine (who was actually white Eastern European) was abused by the same group - there was some minor physical violence involved as well - it was referred to the police and concluded with some arrests and so forth. It was reported as a racially motivated incident, but predated much of the current legislation so ended up being a minor affray.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
I think people's experiences are all different.
No.
And I’m also white and have been physically attacked by a black person before. So what?
"You haven't experienced racism, you're white!"
"Actually, yes I have - here's the example..."
"Ah, but you haven't experienced enough racism!"
You're properly turned a corner there. Even I didn't expect that much of a brain-dead argument in this thread, but there it is...
And about the "admins" comment...the fact that we volunteer to provide this service for everyone doesn't mean that we aren't allowed to have opinions. We just try to avoid moderation actions in the threads where we express them.
What were you trying to imply by that?
Were you attacked specifically because of your skin colour?
Well, you are making an assumption that Liam Neesom has not experienced racism based on his skin colour; he may not have, but don't know that.
I was simply making the point, from personal experience, that being white does not make you immune to abuse based on skin colour.
Regardless if you don't consider racism based on skin colour to be worse that other sorts of racism, then this irrelevant, and I suspect that as a Catholic in Northern Ireland 40 years ago you were likely to be subject to prejudice on a consistent basis, ie it would be constantly apparent. You will also note that have qualified my experiences of racism as in no way being equivalent to other peoples for that very reason.
I've been assaulted twice (by white people) for being "posh", but I suppose class war is acceptable prejudice, so I don't expect a long thread about this where other people who haven't experienced this can be outrage on my behalf.
"Play the ball, not the man", as the saying goes.