The British Monarchy

We all need to accept that you can’t say anything to anyone in 2022 without it being interpreted negatively.

As the say in Ireland. When you are in the ditch, there is only 1 thing to do…lay low -:)
 
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Was she racist? Not intentionally no.
Is she an 80 odd year old thankfully outdated woman working in an outdated institution asking questions that reflect that? Yes.
Things will change, I think King Charles is more attuned to this than his mam and her gang would have been and his children will be more so, we are generationally more aware of diversity, apart from the worst kind of people
 
BigJoe#1 said:
I agree with this especially they bullying and racist references, at best as you say it is an out of touch lady... but racism? Really?
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We know which side you lean,defenden a racist like her bet you also voted for Brexit and stood up for Boris.Also what's this Lefty Show flake thing you mentioned,fuck off back to watching GB News
 
wolviedinho said:
We all need to accept that you can’t say anything to anyone in 2022 without it being interpreted negatively.
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There certainly are folk who seem to enjoy living their lives like an open sore, bouncing from one media outrage to the next. If you read the transcript of the palace conversation then it's hard to not see it as racist or at least Ill judged and just plain rude. I imagine this lady in waiting has lived in a pretty small and privileged world. As minor aristocracy herself she's probably gone from nanny/prep school to public school then service in the royal household in very much a background role which involved being pretty anonymous and mute outside of that small royal circle. As the late queen's lady in waiting that role suddenly vanished in September and she will have been thrust into 'meet and greet' roles at receptions that she is I'll equipped to handle - for seven decades the queen handled the handshaking and small talk. The old dear should probably have retired in September.
 
There's something not quite right about this story.

This is in the Guardian opinion section under the heading....

Monarchy

We didn’t ask for Lady Hussey to resign. But, really, the monarchy must do better on race​

Mandu Reid
Mandu Reid


I witnessed the racist remarks, but blaming one person alone distracts from the depth and breadth of racism in that institution...

https://www.theguardian.com/comment...ssey-resign-monarchy-race-remarks-institution

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a starting point for an institution where staff think it’s OK to touch a Black woman’s hair or question her belonging would be signing up to cultural competence training. I know just the organisation to provide that. Sistah Space, the charity Ngozi runs to support African and Caribbean heritage women affected by domestic and sexual abuse, offers such courses to institutions that don’t know where to begin.

Wouldn’t it be something if Buckingham Palace asked for their help? It would certainly chime with the Queen Consort’s speech at the reception, in which she said that the starting point for responding to survivors of abuse was listening to them and believing them. Perhaps, one day, that principle could extend to Meghan too.
 
The perfect fumble said:
There's something not quite right about this story.

This is in the Guardian opinion section under the heading....

Monarchy

We didn’t ask for Lady Hussey to resign. But, really, the monarchy must do better on race​

Mandu Reid
Mandu Reid


I witnessed the racist remarks, but blaming one person alone distracts from the depth and breadth of racism in that institution...

https://www.theguardian.com/comment...ssey-resign-monarchy-race-remarks-institution

The opinion piece ends...

a starting point for an institution where staff think it’s OK to touch a Black woman’s hair or question her belonging would be signing up to cultural competence training. I know just the organisation to provide that. Sistah Space, the charity Ngozi runs to support African and Caribbean heritage women affected by domestic and sexual abuse, offers such courses to institutions that don’t know where to begin.

Wouldn’t it be something if Buckingham Palace asked for their help? It would certainly chime with the Queen Consort’s speech at the reception, in which she said that the starting point for responding to survivors of abuse was listening to them and believing them. Perhaps, one day, that principle could extend to Meghan too.
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Professional protester.
 
Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese said:
Professional protester.
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That's too simplistic.

This doesn't look like protest opportunism, it's a non story on the surface of it, 83 year old woman that no one has ever heard of, that holds no position of power, says some racist stuff. Yet it's wall to wall coverage, all the networks, front page of the BBC and all the papers, chat shows, covered extensively in the USA.

There's something not right about this.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
People can be racist without realising it. Of course they can.
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Completely agree with this, I think it applies to more people than those who do realise it.

It’s a difficult one to describe but it feels like the idea of being called racist is so abhorrent to people that the focus is on that more than them actually thinking about whether what they’ve said is actually racist or not, particularly when it comes from ignorance rather than real malice.

Anyone who starts a sentence with “I’m not a racist, but…” being a prime example (it’s almost worse,they at least know they’re about to say something that’s probably racist, but still feel the need to say they’re not)
 
Touching hair in that context isn't racist it's just rude. But why a lady in waiting needs to be checking badges isn't quite clear.

Surely a job for security, by that stage the woman would have already gone through all that.

If she hasn't already introduced herself, why not just ask her name and job?

Archaic, clumsy institution that needs to fuck off.

Charlie has been firmly put in his box and has chosen the bureaucratic family over the environment. A bunch of nonces and nonce enablers.
 
The perfect fumble said:
That's too simplistic.

This doesn't look like protest opportunism, it's a non story on the surface of it, 83 year old woman that no one has ever heard of, that holds no position of power, says some racist stuff. Yet it's wall to wall coverage, all the networks, front page of the BBC and all the papers, chat shows, covered extensively in the USA.

There's something not right about this.
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There is certainly some agenda(s) at work I agree, even if it's as basic as the media whipping up a shit-storm to generate clicks/views and sell papers.
 
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