Black Bastard

From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Mon, 2007-03-19 08:31

A quote from Brendan O’Neill at spiked-online, 13 March 2007

Last week, Conservative MP and former army colonel Patrick Mercer was sacked from the Front Bench by party leader David Cameron for saying the words ‘black bastard’ in an interview with The Times. Mercer said: ‘If someone is slow on the assault course [in army training], you’d get people shouting: “Come on you fat bastard, come on you ginger bastard, come on you black bastard.”’ Cameron said Mercer’s words were ‘completely unacceptable’ and within three hours of their being published in The Times he had kicked Mercer out of the shadow cabinet.

[...] No one really thinks Patrick Mercer is a racist. Even those denouncing him for using ‘insensitive words’ point out that he isn’t racist [...] Mercer did not say ‘black bastard’ to one of his black constituents or to a black journalist; he merely described, in a quiet and polite interview with The Times, what sometimes gets said on army training courses. [...]

The fact that you can have an outcry, even a police investigation, over words that are not racist in intent, and which have not harmed anyone, takes censorship to a terrifying new level. These days, it doesn’t matter what your words mean, or who you say them to. It doesn’t even matter if they are true; for example, whether you think it is right or wrong that this kind of thing happens, [...] Patrick Mercer was not being racist when he pointed out that those responsible for training soldiers sometimes say ‘come on you black bastard’, but you cannot say those two words – ‘black bastard’ – anymore. [...]

It is time we took back responsibility for working out amongst ourselves what we should think and say, and responsibility for the consequences of our utterances. Our thoughts and words should not be the business of ‘anybody else’, that sly codeword for the new thought and speech police who believe they know what’s best.

Tired, tired, tired of this.

Submitted by Amsterdamsky on Tue, 2007-03-20 08:52.

The system tells minorities that they are all victims and encourages they to seek out things to be offended by.  You know very well if he had said "White Bastard' we would not be hearing about it.  So tired of this crap.

In Reply to Taurus

Submitted by Kapitein Andre on Tue, 2007-03-20 06:30.

For obvious reasons, one cannot hang a man for what he thinks in liberal democratic societies. Personally I care not what african-Americans believe about themselves, Europeans or other colored peoples, so long as their afrocentrist propaganda does not seep into the mainstream education system. Hopefully the good doctor will not become a hypocrit and seek out a White woman for a trophy.

 

Due to the rise of White nationalism (a hydra consisting of assorted separatist, supremacist and preservationist movements) in recent years in response to demographic changes in the United States, I hope that kambon has a contingency plan in case it causes nationwide upheaval. Certainly this plan cannot involve african-American supremacists combating White nationalists through conventional means, as the african peoples, like others (e.g. the Arabs, Aborigenes, Amerindians, etc.) have not mastered conventional warfare and except for the Arabs are incapable of the unconventional type. Thus, kambon is more bark than bite and he knows it.

 

Note: I have deliberately left some terms un-capitalized in response to kambon leaving certain terms in lower case in his ramblings. Interestingly enough, neither of us has denigrated the other by mispelling their group names; on the contrary such acts are childlike, hateful and of no real effect.

Be careful when using BIG words

Submitted by pet85022 on Tue, 2007-03-20 06:27.

Several years ago some finance employee for the Washington DC city government was walking down a hall way talking to another finance guy and he made a statement about how the DC government has to be niggardly in the up comming fiscal year. A black female employee overheard him and complained, (look up the word) he was canned for using grammer that most of the people in DC never knew existed. This was after the definition was leaked to the press.

Spiked made good arguments against speech police

Submitted by logicalman on Mon, 2007-03-19 17:28.

I can't believe speech police was made so powerful by some McPherson report.  The irony about speech police is the list of forbidden words hasn't been published, but it's just a matter of "anyone" being offensed, regardless of context.  This is getting to become worse than the Mohammed cartoon-related offence by the muslims, who didn't even see the cartoon yet demonstrated against their publication.  Just like the pope's quoting an Byzantine emperor "offensed" the muslims, the colonel's quoting of a common utterance in army training is considered by Cameron as unacceptable.   How stupid and irrational can some people be?

Where is the emphasis?

Submitted by Kapitein Andre on Mon, 2007-03-19 15:17.

Why is "fat" or "ginger" bastard not considered just as insulting? What if "ginger bastard" was uttered by a black or brown man? Given the abolition of slavery in 1833 and significant attempts by successive British governments to integrate non-Whites in Great Britain even against their constituents' wishes, I fail to see why racism should be given the consideration it is in the United States.