Panorama Tomorrow (Mon)

[shaz]

Originally Posted by Col.Kurtz

I was mislead by the title Sweetpea posted, (actually White Flight), I thought the programme would be about the disaffected asian youth who cause trouble, deal drugs and groom underage white girls for sex, that you don't hear much about in the media.

As for the turkish-themed decor of those houses I really don't know what they were thinking?

for a start most people in turkey are muslims anyway, so the turkish theme would of been apt

now now col we dont want to be seen as being racist now do we?? :

[Sweetpea]

Originally Posted by Col.Kurtz

I was mislead by the title Sweetpea posted, (actually White Flight), I thought the programme would be about the disaffected asian youth who cause trouble, deal drugs and groom underage white girls for sex, that you don't hear much about in the media.

As for the turkish-themed decor of those houses I really don't know what they were thinking?

I hoped it would be something like that.

[Col.Kurtz]

Originally Posted by shaz

for a start most people in turkey are muslims anyway, so the turkish theme would of been apt

now now col we dont want to be seen as being racist now do we?? :

I know turkey is a muslim country , the developers used the turkish theme supposedly as a 'halfway house/east meets west' thing - in effect a pair of turkish slippers and a brass tea set decorating the show house.

I don't think anything I have said has been racist :suspicious: . I'm talking about real problems that law-abiding people are getting fed-up of (whatever colour/religion they are). I''m not saying it's only one section of the population that's involved in these activities, it's the suppression of the reporting of these activities I find hard to stomach.

[shaz]

Originally Posted by Col.Kurtz

I know turkey is a muslim country , the developers used the turkish theme supposedly as a 'halfway house/east meets west' thing - in effect a pair of turkish slippers and a brass tea set decorating the show house.

I don't think anything I have said has been racist :suspicious: . I'm talking about real problems that law-abiding people are getting fed-up of (whatever colour/religion they are). I''m not saying it's only one section of the population that's involved in these activities, it's the suppression of the reporting of these activities I find hard to stomach.

yeah i know what you mean, its ok i got rollocked on accyweb for admitting that i voted for the bnp....pity others couldnt own up to it

[Col.Kurtz]

I see where you are coming from now...sorry I thought you were having a go at me.

I've never voted bnp, bit suspicious of them to be honest. Not as suspicious of them as the anl though...jeez, once got hassled by one of them at a party for wearing a black shirt ffs!

[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by Col.Kurtz

I''m not saying it's only one section of the population that's involved in these activities, it's the suppression of the reporting of these activities I find hard to stomach.

That is what tends to cause racism, when people perceive that they are not being treated equally.

It becomes really stupid when people are wary of using someones skin colour or ethnic background when describing them for fear of being seen as racist. For example. I've got a new eye specialist and last time I went to the hospital I saw one of the team. He's Greek and I had a few goes at practising his name because it's rather long and complicated. When I had to phone them up about something a few weeks later I said to a friend that I wondered if I would get the name right or if I would have to resort to saying 'the Greek doctor'. My friend said "Oooh you can't say that. It might sound racist!" How the heck can it be racist to describe a Greek guy as being a Greek guy? That surely is PC gone stark raving bonkers.

[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by shaz

yeah i know what you mean, its ok i got rollocked on accyweb for admitting that i voted for the bnp....pity others couldnt own up to it

Maybe they didn't 'own up to it' because they didn't vote BNP. I couldn't have done even if I'd wanted to because we didn't have a BNP candidate.

[grannyclaret]

when i was a kid ,life was so much easier,, everyone was white,,,,

[shaz]

Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

Maybe they didn't 'own up to it' because they didn't vote BNP. I couldn't have done even if I'd wanted to because we didn't have a BNP candidate.

thats fair enough willow, but the amount of people who annonymously (sp)gave me karma for that thread was mad

[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by grannyclaret

when i was a kid ,life was so much easier,, everyone was white,,,,

When I was at Primary School we had a West Indian girl who came to the school and everyone wanted to know her because she'd come from somewhere we'd never been, and there was nothing un PC about noticing that she had brown skin and black curly hair or spoke with a different accent.

[shaz]

somebody told me last night that, that panorama programme last week was part of a two part special and that they are following it up soon....god knows:lightbulb: