Richard
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Aye. Must read so many threads and not post.Dasa in fine form as usual. Some might like to call him an impact player. Immediately off the bench and makes his presence felt early.
Aye. Must read so many threads and not post.Dasa in fine form as usual. Some might like to call him an impact player. Immediately off the bench and makes his presence felt early.
Err - no. You can count the number of times that's happened on one hand - maybe fewer.Bond is right on
Err no. There is a difference between a critical way of looking at teams from the sub-continent and down right bigotry towards them.Some people are so indoctrinated by anti-racism jargon their knees jerk wildly whenever a subcontinent individual, team, culture is mentioned in a bad light. India got an umpire sacked they thought cost them, and could do it again. Bond is right on deal with it.
He was being dramatic but he was making a very valid point. Umpires have had their careers destroyed recently by teams from the subcontinent seeking revenge for making rulings against them. Hair, Bucknor......remember them? This is a serious issue and some people will want to debate it vigourously. You shutting down debate with accusations of racism is typical PC rubbishErr no. There is a difference between a critical way of looking at teams from the sub-continent and down right bigotry towards them.
Didn't take someone else long to trump up some accusation of racism. If the use of the word PC is considered indicative of racism around this board, then it doens't take much and Bond should sleep easy.No its not, and that debate has occurred on this board many a time. Bond21 however has made it clear, no matter his denials, that he prefers to hate on anything remotely sub-continental, and hence his comments will be taken that way and laughed off as Bond Bull****.
Stop throwing the 'PC' term around as if you're anti-establishment or something. Calling something PC is becoming the biggest defence of racist, ***ist and homophobic behaviour nowadays anyway.
lol dont worry im not losing any sleep over this absolute nonsense.Didn't take someone else long to trump up some accusation of racism. If the use of the word PC is considered indicative of racism around this board, then it doens't take much and Bond should sleep easy.
The same reason that calling someone a black **** is racist and calling someone a ginger **** isn't.Lmao....
If you didnt notice why Hair got suspended indefinately for following the rules which happened to leave Pakistan the losers, and why Bucknor got kicked out of the Australia v India tour for the Symonds decision you are fooling yourselves.
I really dont care what anyone on this forum thinks I am, Im not racist but then again I dont consider calling Michael Jordan a black man makes one a radical white supremist.
Why to some people is calling someone black offensive, but calling someone white isnt?
Double Standards FTW....
Gingers ruleThe same reason that calling someone a black **** is racist and calling someone a ginger **** isn't.
You can't umpire in a match involving your own country.so if Hair umpired a ODI, Australia vs India and gave a questionable decision against India, that makes him a total white supremist because its a white team vs a black team?
Or if he was umpiring Aus v India, he surely would have some level of bias because hes Australian, so because he might be bias towards his country, that makes him a black hating whip cracker?
Absolutely, thought it several hundred times.Calling something PC is becoming the biggest defence of racist, ***ist and homophobic behaviour nowadays anyway.
What what the relevance of that? None.Instead of singing “Baa baa, black sheep” as generations of children have learnt to do, toddlers in Oxfordshire are being taught to sing “Baa baa, rainbow sheep”.
The move, which critics will seize on as an example of political correctness, was made after the nurseries decided to re-evaluate their approach to equal opportunities.
Stuart Chamberlain, manager of the Family Centre in Abingdon and the Sure Start centre in Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, told the local Courier Journal newspaper: “We have taken the equal opportunities approach to everything we do.
“This is fairly standard across nurseries. We are following stringent equal opportunities rules. No one should feel pointed out because of their race, gender or anything else.”
In keeping with the new approach, teachers at the nurseries have reportedly also changed the ending of Humpty Dumpty so as not to upset the children and dropped the seven dwarfs from the title of Snow White.
A spokesman for Ofsted, the watchdog which inspects Sure Start centres, confirmed that centres are expected to “have regard to anti-discrimination good practice” and that staff should “actively promote equality of opportunity”.
Gervase Duffield, a Conservative district councillor representing Sutton Courtenay and Appleford, denounced the ban as ridiculous.
“It’s the sort of thing that people continually do nowadays — it’s become something of a curse,” he said. “Why do people waste time and money doing this sort of thing when there are far more important things to think about when it comes to educating our children?”
A mother whose daughter attends the Sure Start nursery at the Family Centre in Abingdon, who did not want to be named, said parents had been astonished by the change.
“Baa Baa, Black Sheep has been one of the most well-known nursery rhymes for generations. For people to come along and fiddle with it is ridiculous. What on earth is a rainbow sheep anyway?
“I’ve spoken to other parents about it and none of us has ever heard of anyone getting offended by the words ‘black sheep’.”
This is not the first time, however, that the nursery rhyme — written in 1744 satirising the taxes imposed on wool exports — has fallen foul of political correctness. In 2000 Birmingham City Council tried to ban the rhyme, after claiming that it was racist and portrayed negative stereotypes. The council rescinded the ban after black parents said it was ludicrous.
Last year, a nursery school in Aberdeen caused uproar, when teachers changed the lyrics to “Baa baa, happy sheep”.
Margaret Morrissey, of the National Confederation of Parent Teachers Association, said: “It’s really sad. Children for generations have loved and enjoyed nursery rhymes and it’s very sad if adult political correctness doesn’t allow them to grow up in an unbiased world.”
A DfES spokesperson said: “We don’t support this approach to the teaching of traditional nursery rhymes, but any such decision would be taken locally.”
Thats an article from timesonline.co.uk
I highlighted where the absolute insanity is present....baa baa rainbow sheep ffs....the stupidity is unbelievable.
So to sum up, white people wanted the rhyme banned, black people said it was ludicrous....hmm somethings not right there...
Also Snow White gets a name change in this politically correct age, maybe theyll change "Dwarf" to "Little People" Snow White and the 7 Little People sounds a lot better than the classic title....
Where has anybody said that? And why is that relevant to Darrel Hair?I really dont care what anyone on this forum thinks I am, Im not racist but then again I dont consider calling Michael Jordan a black man makes one a radical white supremist.
Why to some people is calling someone black offensive, but calling someone white isnt?
Double Standards FTW....
Like a pack of hyenas, aren't you.I'm not a racist, but.....(proceed to say something racist).
Hey, back in the old days, we weren't PC, and as a result we had an inclusive society in America, Australia, etc where everyone was treated equally. Hell, even in the West Indies, it was just coincidence to have a white captain all the time.