09.03.07
Violent thugs? Surely not.
A Conservative spokesman for something or other has just been sacked for saying that there are instances of using race in abuse in the army. Perhaps I’ll be sacked for saying that people get better when they are seen in the NHS.
Seems like this is pretty normal behaviour to me. Seeing as the army is only there to give a veneer of respectability to the sort of people who want to play with guns and kill people whenever possible. Are we to expect them to behave with decorum when they’re not getting their jollies shooting people from somewhere hot? I doubt it. Put a load of unthinking violent morons together and they behave like unthinking violent morons ooh there’s a surprise.
But what was more interesting about this guy’s words was the thing that some lazy buggers who happened to be black would use their colour and accusations of racism to try and get off a charge of something or whatever. I don’t see why this should be a surprise either. I remember vividly a black woman telling a white library assistant that she was racist and there would be a complaint against her purely because the assistant had asked the woman to not talk on her mobile phone in the library.
Yes that was pure, hatred of blacks at work there. Well that or the dozens of signs around that stated that use of mobile phones was banned in the library and the woman was, let’s say for the sake of argument, doing her job.
People will use whatever they can for getting off a bum rap for whatever. I used many excuses in my time for laziness but haven’t had the option for using my ethnicity in any of those instances. I do wonder if some people in the minority communities are so used to hearing that white people are so bloody nasty that complaints against any of their breaking of rules is considered unawareness of issues at best or pure hatred at worst.
A similar occurance has happened at work in the not too distant past. A black woman accused a white female colleague of racism after she was refused an assessment since she turned up far too late thus missing her appointment. She accused this poor girl of racism openly and to our boss. She picked possibly the worst person to pick on for discrimination though as this girl is not only gay but has a non-white partner. Umm–err!
Have fun.
[edit] There’s a debate on the beeb boards about this news story and there’s a wonderful post involving this marvellous comment.
“It has clearly emerged from this incident that Patrick Mercer has a far greater clasp of what happens in the real world”