PC Bullshit

Original Title: White don’t walk!

Un-f-u-c-k-ing-real.

[quote]Last week The Telegraph revealed that a decision has been taken to scrap the national park’s programme of 900 events, including all 400 free guided walks. The walks attract about 5,000 people a year, but they are the wrong sort of people.

Mr Langley and his 300 fellow voluntary rangers have received letters informing them of the decision of the corporate and financial services committee of the Lake District National Park Authority. “The strategy will take immediate effect,” wrote Paul Tiplady, the National Park Officer. “We will focus on new audiences (urban young people from minority ethnic communities and disabled people).”

Mick Casey, the senior media relations adviser, explained why the free walks must be purged. “Our research shows that the majority who do the walks are white, middle-class, middle-aged people.”

He didn’t stop there. "In July 2002, the Government issued a report, in which it outlined what it saw as a problem: not enough ethnic minorities and young people coming to national parks.[/quote]

portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/ … xhome.html

Well, rest easy Comrade, I’m quite sure the government will also be scrapping funding for inner city community centres all over the country, just as soon as they become aware that hardly any of the people using them are white middle class people.
Poor urban blacks aren’t going hiking in the Lakes? Scrap the free tours! Middle class white people aren’t using the inner city community centers? Scrap them!
Or maybe they’ll put poor urban deprived people on buses and TAKE them to the Lakes. They could stop their benefits if they refuse to go.

I dunno. There is something about the thought of a loaf of white bread tourists stepping out of their SUVs for a their “Free Nature Tour” that kinda gives me a headache. Anyway, it is hard for me to get too excited about the isssue.

This is all too true of the politically correct bollocks that we have to put up with in the UK every day.

You can’t be white, male and middle class any more because this is perceived as being a racist.

Companies are made to advertise positions in newspapers with the suffix applicants from ethnic minorities are particularly encouraged to apply and applicants from ethnic minorities will be given priority interviews.

I was pulled up infront of a panel once for stopping two suspicious cars one day whilst on patrol. Both cars were occupied by Iraqi asylum seekers. I was ordered to explain my actions and prove that my intentions were not racist. I later had to write a humiliating apology to the drivers of both cars for inconveniencing them and I nearly lost my job.
For every one car I stopped which contained a person of ethnic origin I must have stopped 30 cars containing whites but not once was I questioned about stopping whites.

A couple of my collegues have been sacked for apparently bieng racist, or not being able to prove their intentions were not racist.

Another time I had arrested a black man who was carrying a large knife. I was put infront of a reviewing panel because he said that I was racist and used too much force. I had to apologise. He was let off by the court on the charge of carrying a weapon on the grounds that the arrest was racist and I nearly lost my job.

(He was wanted on suspition of mugging three old ladies, robbing a shop and stealing 4 cars).

On application forms and most recently the national census I could tick a box stating my nationality. My options were like this:

African
Arabian
Bangladeshi
Chinese
Ethiopian (African)
Indian
Iranian
Japanese
Iraqi
Pakistani
Scottish
Turkish
Welsh
White European
White Other
Other

There is no box for English.

I get fined if I fly this flag by my local council if I don’t take it down when ordered to do so:

I can’t breath without being called a racist.

I have to take off my shoes when I enter a mosque, but supporters of Bin Laden can put posters of the twin towers atrocities all over my local church and then tell me they have the right to free speech wherever and whenever they want.

They have the right to burn the Union Jack and Stars and Stripes in the street while the police can only stand and watch (even though there is a law against this behaviour). I have no right to interfere.
But speak out against this and I am a racist.

Abu Hookhand Hanza can preach in the middle of the street for two hours every week while obstructing traffic, yet if I want to have my own demonstration I am the wrong kind of colour and I will be arrested and put before the court on obstruction charges.

Abu Hanza also has the right to use over 2 million pounds of taxpayers money to fight extradition charges to the United States on charges relating to terrorism. If I was in that position, I would have access to limited legal aid.

I have the right to walk around a predominantly asian area in Birmingham before 7 o’clock. However, after 7 o’clock my right is withdrawn as signs display everywhere “No Whites after 7 pm.” The council/local government and the powers that be in the police force see this as free speech and not racism and therefore the signs remain up.

When I make an appiontment by phone to attend the doctors the first question I get asked is “What ethnic group do you belong to?”
If your answer is anything other than White then you can jump the queue.

And now we see another stab as privelages like free hiking tours are not being used by the right kind of people. The white middle classes can look after themselves. The white urban under- privelaged can look after themselves. The white single mothers, the white drug users, the poverty striken whites…

There are many many more examples I can think of but I can’t be bothered.

I’m all for equal rights but positive discrimination is just rediculous.

My government sucks and Tony Blair needs a good kicking.

Powerful post Dangermouse. I know where you are coming from. PC bullshit is one of the reasons why I have not returned to New Zealand.

Nice post Dangermouse.

The US fought this particular battle for the past 15-20 years in earnest. In the US, it was made out to be a zero-sum game. White man lost twice - on his color and on his gender. Has US society become better for it? It’s certainly open to debate :neutral:

waits for the onslaught of “poor diddums white boy got it so hard” comments that inevitably follow a comment like DMs

(FWIW DM, I fully agree with you.)

poor diddums white boys got it so hard.

definitely.

From a ‘minority’ who has been 'corrected on the board for discussing racial issues, i would like to chime in…

As an african american from the united states (not being arrogant just stating) I can’t speak to the enviroment in the UK, but if it’s anything like the thinking of the states, here’s what’s the deal…

Race makes money, gets you Press and reelected. It’s insane yet lucrative business. And also, since it hasn’t been fully resolved, and is still in play it’s no wonder that it still ruffles the feathers.

Dangermouse, your experiences are a fine example of current white male thinking and frustrations in the United States. Especially in the law enforcement community, ever since the O.J. trial. Yet, their are legitements(sp)arguements to be made for excessive police force, and other abuses made by the law enforcement as well as the legal system in the states. This by all means doen’t mean that we should negate personal responsiblity because of race, it’s just that it’s become acceptable because of past behaviors. And the fact that people have to cover their ass because any ‘wrong’ move can be construed as ‘racist’. It doesn’t leave much leeway for the healing to begin.

Anyone who would enter a mosque will have to take their shoes off. It’s like entering a chinese/japanese home. YOu just do. As a woman, regulated to having to cover myself as well as sit in a balcony or behind men. So there are 'disadvantages ’ to all.

Dangermouse wrote:

[quote]I have the right to walk around a predominantly Asian area in Birmingham before 7 o’clock. However, after 7 o’clock my right is withdrawn as signs display everywhere “No Whites after 7 pm.” The council/local government and the powers that be in the police force see this as free speech and not racism and therefore the signs remain up. [/quote] The same goes for me in certain parts of the South. I don’t know about you,and the full scope of the situation, but America is big, so I don’t care if they have their space after sundown.

I don’t care for politically correctness. Its appualing(sp) and another negative form of suppressing one’s voice. But since, there were/still times, and enviroments that people grow/grew up that foster deterimental behaviors then it’s what we have to do until that day the blindsiders come off.

Bottom line is, one-that article may have been a ‘filler’, or a political ploy.
two-bob summed it up in a funny but real way.
Three-as much as you don’t like it but the frustrations brought on by affirmative action,etc. could be viewed as karma. That dangermouse or anyone of his generation has commited any of the past racist acts that bring us to this point. Is it fair? No. But what goes around comes around and we don’t get to say when. Don’t agree, Im sure you will when America gets it’s final due for the things we have done in the world.

Finally, it all boils down to getting to that day, when we say enough is enough. But until we can juice that lemon, then we will have lemonade.

What goes around may well come around, but that just means we’re all screwed from here on out. A screws B, so B screws A, so A screws B, so B screws A… No matter the intention, it’s that action itself that counts.

But namahottie my post was in response to the OP. If what dangermouse describes is real then I am appalled. No matter how you slice most of that stuff it is wrong, and if it is white people who are being discriminated against then white people had better stand up and do something about it.

Unfortunately any who do are either smacked back down for being “racist” or for the annoying (and probably permanent) linkage of being proud of being white and being a member of the KKK.

Avoiding personal responsiblity for one’s actions isnt a black/white thing. Yet your post is exactly what some whites in America think. It’s not 'right ’ that we are discrimated from cause we are white. Now, if someone else brings up the issue, well it’s not that, blah blah blah. And when ‘minorities’ in the past have stood up like you say, their physical, social, economical beings were theaten. Therefore, there is a need to protect one’s livelyhood from certain abuses. But bottom line is

Personal respsonbility can’t be negated because your race. But until we live in that world where people actually have the guile to own it, this is what we have to live with.

Pop a Tylenol and try not to think too much…that’ll help with the headache.

When I first arrived in Taiwan, I worked at a English summer camp while I looked for more meaningful work in a field outside of teaching. One of the girls there was from a prominent eastern family in Canada (with NHL ties). One day she

Too many white people make me nervous.
Almost every negative experience with humanity I have had has been the result of inter-action with white people.
Get a lot of white people together, they get loud.
White people all dress alike.
White people smell funny when its hot.
White people talk loud and yell strange things out loud at sports events.
Whats with that…Yeee Haaaaa!! thing?
White people are “too religious” for me.
White people dance funny.
White people come in too many different skin tones.
White people don’t respect their elders.
White babies are OK, but pretty soon they get really big ears.
White people get fat.
White people act like they own the world.
White people need to get a clue/life, etc.
White people have funny hair. In many different colours.
White people wear funny shoes.
White people look funny when they get old.

White people are strange, I don’t trust 'em. :noway:

[quote=“TainanCowboy”]
White babies are OK, but pretty soon they get really big ears.[/quote]

And if they’re boy babies they get really big #@*&! :astonished:

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Especially around our daughters! :laughing:

heh heh heh…don’t make me play my card !..heh heh heh…

If he wants to target urban people from a different ethnic community, I would suggest the Japanese, they love the Lake District. But I don’t think that’s what he meant somehow.

Here’s some more nonsense from Birmingham this time:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/4112105.stm

Try to understand namahootie it is not white people who are wrong or black people who are wrong or brown people who are wrong. It is racism that is wrong. I am a white guy and I can guarantee you that I have been the victim of way more racism than I have been responsible for. If I saw a sign anywhere in my country that said, “No white/black/purple/green people after dark” I would rip it down. In fact I once did rip down a whole collection of posters that was promoting the hatred of white people. Some spineless little turd approached me and said “Hey, you can’t do that. They are just exercising their right to free speech.” “Yeah well,” I replied, “I am just exercising my right to free movement.”