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Google have blacked out Sir Winston Churchill. ![[Linked Image]](https://d28lcup14p4e72.cloudfront.net/223075/5270510/winston.png) The image is now back. I suspect someone was being naughty to instigate a response rather than Googles explanation.
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We watched a repeat episode of Peter Kays car share last night, in this episode one of the characters is doing a shop promotion dressed as a blackcurrant, they stop for something to eat and she blacks up her face in the toilets as they are late for work, outside they are passed by a few black lads, it maybe best to watch the episode, anyway what do you think? racist, racist overtones, or does it highlight how an innocent mistake can be interpreted as racism.
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I totally fail to see why painting your face any colour has anything to do with racism, emulating is not automatically insulting. But it shows the thoughts of the people that do find it insulting!
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I totally fail to see why painting your face any colour has anything to do with racism, emulating is not automatically insulting. But it shows the thoughts of the people that do find it insulting! My thoughts exactly, people looking for any excuse to cry racism, one of my all time favourites, it ain't half hot mum, was removed because an Indian character was portrayed by a white actor, yet that portrayal was so true to life, you could see it day to day in the various ports, the clearing of the throat, the spitting and the annoying beetle nut globs everywhere, so it looks bad for prince charming in Cinderella, has he got to be a man?
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How long before they have to change that name? Is the word "black" going to totally eradicated from the English language? Blackboards are still blackboards as far as I'm concerned.
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There's a real danger that the left will drag Britain back to the 1970s, with secure well-paid jobs, ample housing, properly-funded NHS and social care, free tuition, student grants, final salary pensions, affordable rail fares and fabulous films and music. David Osland 2025 We don't do charity in Germany, we pay taxes. Charity is a failure of governments' responsibilities - Henning Wehn https://ddue.uk
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Agreed on the blackface issue though. Although it can be used offensively, most of the time it isn't, like a white person going in fancy dress, let's say, as Mr T.
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So is the word "plank" to be banned then because that is commonly used as an insult?
How can you censor a word when it can easily be replaced by another one.
I just don't get any of it. I understand abuse, I don't understand what makes racial abuse any different from any other abuse. Abuse is wrong never mind if there is a prejudice or not, why make it so complicated by sub-categorising it ad-infinitum.
I doubt anyone can be 100% racist, sexist etc, just like I doubt anyone can be 0% racist, sexist etc.
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There's a real danger that the left will drag Britain back to the 1970s, with secure well-paid jobs, ample housing, properly-funded NHS and social care, free tuition, student grants, final salary pensions, affordable rail fares and fabulous films and music. David Osland 2025 We don't do charity in Germany, we pay taxes. Charity is a failure of governments' responsibilities - Henning Wehn https://ddue.uk
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Seeing the queues outside Primark today (not here , other places) one has to wonder why people who pull down and deface statues and support BLM are hoping to shop from clothing companies that use modern day slavery. Primark use India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and China !
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Agreed on the blackface issue though. Although it can be used offensively, most of the time it isn't, like a white person going in fancy dress, let's say, as Mr T.
Why have so many black stars ( possibly others) tried to change their complexions to white. That's racist ! Michael Jackson and sisters seemed to introduce that. It wasn't his skin pigment... what a load of nonsense.
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Why have so many black stars ( possibly others) tried to change their complexions to white. That's racist ! How about someone purposefully tanning themselves either naturally or artificially? Same thing?
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Why have so many black stars ( possibly others) tried to change their complexions to white. That's racist ! How about someone purposefully tanning themselves either naturally or artificially? Same thing? No it's not, because our skin goes naturally brown in the sun. Yours might not, some people go lobster colour, but generally they will at some point have a tanned skin of one degree or another .
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No it's not, because our skin goes naturally brown in the sun. Yours might not, some people go lobster colour, but generally they will at some point have a tanned skin of one degree or another .
I am of the lobster variety, but having a white skin that goes brown could be said to be having the best of both worlds.
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Agreed on the blackface issue though. Although it can be used offensively, most of the time it isn't, like a white person going in fancy dress, let's say, as Mr T.
Why have so many black stars ( possibly others) tried to change their complexions to white. That's racist ! Michael Jackson and sisters seemed to introduce that. It wasn't his skin pigment... what a load of nonsense. What a crazy world indeed black kids want to be white , white kids want to be black init bruv.
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Are there any black people on Wikiwirral who could give us their opinions on this topic?
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Are there any black people on Wikiwirral who could give us their opinions on this topic? Well said Fidelio. It is obvious no black person has commented as of yet.
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