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Paul	31-10-2010 01:13

Re: Harperson: Equality apparently doesn't extend as far as gingers

Well thats your view. :) We dont find it anything like that on the offensive scale.

(and in case your wondering, my wife, and two of my daughters are ginger. They thought it funny.).

nomadking

31-10-2010 01:29

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It's more a matter of being hypocritical than of being offensive. Imagine her reaction, if someone was referred to as a 'blonde bimbo'.

Osem	31-10-2010 08:07

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Originally Posted by nomadking (Post 35115808)

It's more a matter of being hypocritical than of being offensive. Imagine her reaction, if someone was referred to as a 'blonde bimbo'.

Yes, exactly the point I was making above. She claims to hate such behavaiour but seems to rather enjoy emulating it. Still, she's far from the only example of her ilk saying one thing and doing another is she...

Chris

31-10-2010 08:19

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Originally Posted by Paul M (Post 35115804)

Well thats your view. :) We dont find it anything like that on the offensive scale.

(and in case your wondering, my wife, and two of my daughters are ginger. They thought it funny.).

I think it's the person making the comments, rather than the hair colour of the person receiving them, that made this outrageous. Hattie Harperson is, as the Grauniad so eloquently put it, "the doyenne of po-faced political correctness". For her to launch an ad hominem attack on a fellow Parliamentarian based on his appearance is hypocritical in the extreme. It calls into question exactly what is behind the principles she was so keen to ram down all our throats while she was in the Government as the Equalities minister.

Osem	31-10-2010 08:26

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Originally Posted by Chris (Post 35115854)

For her the notion of equality seems to be a bit of a one way street.

Ignitionnet

31-10-2010 09:45

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Originally Posted by Paul M (Post 35115790)

Seems rather like a whole bunch of people, totally unrelated to the comment are (as usual) getting offended on behalf of the actual target - who seems to have taken it on the chin and replied rather well.

I think it's a hobby of some people to get offended on behalf of others.

Angua

31-10-2010 10:58

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His reaction has made HH look even more silly than if he had made a formal complaint.

A much smarter way of reacting by Mr Alexander in rising above such puerile comments.

Gary L

31-10-2010 11:04

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I had a ginger once. I was a bit disappointed when I noticed she was really a blonde though.

Woolly One

31-10-2010 11:20

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I still think he's more akin to Beaker from The Muppets.:)

Chris

31-10-2010 12:57

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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet (Post 35115891)

I think it's a hobby of some people to get offended on behalf of others.

Precisely ... that has been her hobby. Or so she led us to believe.

Ignitionnet

31-10-2010 13:12

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Originally Posted by Chris (Post 35115973)

Precisely ... that has been her hobby. Or so she led us to believe.

It got the authoritarian, bureaucratic and pointless piece of excrement pet project of hers, the Equality Act, through though.

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TheDaddy

01-11-2010 05:32

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Originally Posted by Maggy J (Post 35115798)

Well coming from a stand up comic maybe Paul..but not from an MP and to be honest having seen how youngsters who are ginger get bullied relentlessly about their hair colour I can't help but be offended on their behalf.Substitute black for ginger or even the N word and it might make some sense of how it is offensive.

Then again it might not make sense, people have been killed and persecuted for their skin colour, to compare that to a bit of name calling no matter how hurtful is offensive imo.

Maggy

01-11-2010 05:51

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Originally Posted by TheDaddy (Post 35116267)

Then again it might not make sense, people have been killed and persecuted for their skin colour, to compare that to a bit of name calling no matter how hurtful is offensive imo.

And where do you think persecution starts..it starts with name calling before it gets to the worst aspects.When people find they can get away with name calling THEN they proceed to the next level.:rolleyes:

TheDaddy

01-11-2010 06:11

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Originally Posted by Maggy J (Post 35116269)

Yeah course they do, that's why we have been stringing gingers up for years like the Klu Klux Klan used to :rolleyes:

Maggy

01-11-2010 06:14

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Originally Posted by TheDaddy (Post 35116273)

Yeah course they do, that's why we have been stringing gingers up for years like the Klu Klux Klan used to :rolleyes:

Maybe not but only if people speak out against the abuse of people's characteristics..;) So if people here don't mind I'll carry on being offended on behalf of minorities who do get more than their fair share of abuse about things they cannot do much about..such as physical characteristics..

You haven't had to deal with the hatred young boys and girls have against their own hair colour due to bullying.

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