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Originally Posted by Pierre
Does using a non-pc term or descriptor make you racist? In general terms.
Johnson has used some questionable language on occasion, the piccaninnie thing was 11 years ago.
The bum boy comment was 21 years ago.
Lots of people, even Prime Minister candidates, say the wrong things sometimes and there is always somebody just ready and waiting to be offended.
I’m not racism or anti LGBTQ+(Add whatever letter you want) but I have made questionable remarks in the past. I’m not proud of it but i’m Human, and I can guarantee that coloured people ( sorry can’t say that ) I meant people of colour, and people on the Gender spectrum ( as that seems to be what it is) are all not nice or PC either.
So can BoJo be PM although over the past 30 years he’s Made the odd PC gaffe? Of course he can don’t be such a muppet.
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The odd PC gaffe?
Bringing out the PC excuse is a pathetic argument and one trotted out to excuse the inexcusable. Johnson actually made his picanniny remark in 2002 when he was 38 years old. A man, not a stupid child or inconsiderate teenager.; not back in the 1950's when there was a complete lack of education about minorities.
He said :-Tony Blair would love touring the continent because he will be greeted by “cheering crowds of flag-waving piccaninnies....the tribal warriors will all break out in watermelon smiles to see the big white chief”.
In 2012 when he was a mere 49 years old (those 49 year olds and their odd PC gaffes) said :-
'Africans would be better off if ruled by white colonisers.
He said: "Consider Uganda, pearl of Africa, as an example of the British record. The British planted coffee and cotton and tobacco, and they were broadly right. If left to their own devices, the natives would rely on nothing but the instant carbohydrate gratification of the plantain. (basically saying monkeys eating bananas)
“The best fate for Africa would be if the old colonial powers, or their citizens, scrambled once again in her direction; on the understanding that this time they will not be asked to feel guilty.”
So yeah the 'odd PC gaffe'.
BTW If you care to, and i doubt you do, just Google the word picaninny and have a look at how this racial trope has been used over the years.
You should be ashamed of yourself.