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Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees

I believe that you're confusing white privilege with racism. As before white privilege != racism.

I'm going to come back and write a longer reply, your post deserves it.

But there's a few initial points

1) We (and i mean this collectively) need to look at what causes Black on Black violence as Pierre and i were discussion earlier in the thread this is due to socio/economic reasons that are highly complex and need to be untangled.

2) So what if black people use words that white people shouldnt use. If you call your husband/wife 'strumpet' would you be happy for me to do the same? Of course you wouldn't because the relationship is different.

3) With hindsight several programs shouldn't have been made It aint half hot mum & mind your language are just two that i can think of, Fawlty Towers is up there as well. In the past few days Keith Lemon & David Walliams have come out and said they wouldn't make those programs now.

4) Change is scary, of that there's no doubt. but it will happen. History shows us continuously

Finally, why would anyone in their right mind support violence and thuggery ?

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Who needs protection and help where possible most right now?

I'm going to single out just one of your enumerated points.
The others are also separate matters, the sum of which conflates to some perceptions of the "problem".

Your view in the highlighted paragraph is a direct challenge to freedom of expression. It is a terrible thing that we have to be afraid of using the terms "Micks", "Jocks", "Frogs", "Krauts" in an appropriate context. Also comedies such as you listed and in particular "Mind your language" unjustifiably provoke shock/horror among the wretched woke community. The woke community want our humour (part of British culture without doubt) to be stunted, a consequence of which could be the extinction of parody as both comedy and political observation.

The "black" case is actually very different. Mistreatment by the Police in particular is a complaint that needs to be resolved by a government actually delivering "levelling up" - if they know how to do it. I suppose that black people resent past exploitation by white people even though it is irrational in the present day context - but there nevertheless. When levelled up, all that will pass.

But some people in this thread are unwise to jump onto the multicultural bandwagon as the black case is one that stands out on its own.