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Old 05-06-2020, 15:42   #3758
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Re: Coronavirus
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Originally Posted by Carth View Post
I thought we weren't allowed to call people 'black' anymore?
If a person is black, you can refer to them as black. There is nothing to be ashamed of because a person is black.

It's the use of the term 'coloured' that is frowned upon because this term was applied during the apartheid days in South Africa.

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Originally Posted by Paul View Post
That would be the same US that elected a black president ?

Racial discrimination is bad, absolutely, but by going around saying "black lives matter" you are committing that very act, you are implying other lives do not.

As someone mentioned earlier, its not really a subject for this thread, however, the idiots in those protests are. They have put themselves at risk, those around them at risk, and all their families at risk - and for what ? Nothing, some pointless protest in the UK will make zero difference.

Let's just hope none of them had the virus, or passed it on.
You are confusing the population with the government. It is the government who allow the police to ride roughshod over the lives of black people and discriminate against them in so many ways, including on pay.

I do not accept your view that the slogan implies that other lives do not matter. That's your interpretation, but not what was meant, as I am sure you know, really.

It seems a cruel blow that even the coronavirus seems to discriminate against black people. Unfortunately, there's not a lot we can do about that other than improve their living conditions immediately, and there's fat chance of that.
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