Well read the post with an open mind then.
Calm down dear, you were asked to clarify some statements.
I’ll spell it out and hope you get the gist.
That was the request, good to see not all of my 5/6 sentence post befuddled you.
John Barnes who will jump on any comment about black players said he didn’t think it was racist because the cartoon did indeed look like Mendy. I compared that comment to one Boris made about Muslim women as they do look like letter boxes. Both comments are obviously offensive but according to John Barnes observation, not racist.
You are using John Barnes as a barometer for sense, first mistake. I for one don't think it does 'look like' Mendy. John Barnes in no way represents black society as a whole, nor do I. He was a very good footballer who has failed at punditry and management since retiring and now wants to play intellectual on something he can have seniority with over his white peers.
Going to focus on the bold part of your wall of text now though. Muslim women look like letterboxes? You've used Johns Barnes' theory that the cartoon looks like Mendy to tediously align it to yours & Boris' [questionable] views on Muslim society.
This isn't about reading your views with an open mind, your points are senseless; you're not actually making one. You're jumping from Boris to Barnes and drawing lines that don't exist.
If someone said I looked like Gollum from Lord of the rings is that racist or because I’m white is it not considered a racist comment. The point is what is deemed racist. Is calling a scouser racist? If you call him a black scouser is that then racist?
So here it comes. Extreme examples that have absolutely nothing to do with the matter in hand in this thread. We've gone from a footballer publicly posting a distasteful picture online to Gollum, to black Scousers. . . It's thread after thread with this bulls***.
This isn't a thread about, 'what is or is not racist'. If people actually read the posts of those who have an issue with what Silva posted people are not playing, 'is Silva racist' either. The poor taste and questionable undertones are my issues. This isn't the race Olympics, why random examples are pulled up really makes no sense.
You ask what is deemed racist? I'd say calling Muslim women letterboxes comes close.
I’ve been called honky and white trash whilst I’ve been abroad, that’s a racist comment.
Yes they would have been. Still not quite sure where this connects with the tweet though. Another contentious comment.
The accepted definition of ‘racist’ does not mention colour but race. So the media jump onto this issue with Mendy because of colour.
Well done, you googled the definition of racist - you missed the final step.
The definition of Race,
A grouping of humans based on shared physical or social qualities.
Thus, you can be grouped into race by 'colour' [a shared physical quality]. Your attempt to look knowledgeable on that one fell terrible flat. I'm far from a race scholar but 'race vs colour', really?
A black person using the N word is,apparently, ok from the number of films I’ve watched when it has been used.
Another irrelevant point.
I also finished by saying the that ‘The world is full of good people and bad people and that’s how they should be judged regardless of race’.
True, shame people aren't judged that way.
I hope you understand now.
I understand that your views on Muslim women that wear headdresses could be seen as. . . dare i say it racist, not sure what else an open mind is meant to think of that drivel. I'm still lost as to what you're getting at.
Maybe it would be easier if you just were honest about exactly why you're annoyed at this situation because this hasn't worked.
