SWP's back said:
Lucky Toma said:
Personally I couldn't care less where someone is from or their family heritege and only mention a nationality in the very rare instances where it is pertinent.
In this instance - a sovereign ruler of a country - it is. Very much so.
Whereas I'm guessing your mate probably isn't having a nation celebrate his Jubilee this weekend? In which case if I met him I wouldn't give a fuck where he was from, or indeed his father or father before him.
No it's fucking bullshit. Where was she born? That's all that matters.
You're no better than someone telling asians to "go back home" (even though they were born in Britain). Why should someone's parents nationality matter?
Just an easy stick to beat them with and well below your usual style of debate.
Two of the more decent posters on BM accusing me of casual racism?
I could respond with a lengthy defence but surely all I need say to illustrate how this instance differs completely from Blueboy's mate with a Turkish grandparent or your Asian analogy SWP is....she's the Queen of England!!
The constitutional monarch of the commonwealth.
I think reminding people that until 1917 the present-day royal family were Saxe-Coburgs is a justified thing for a anti-royalist such as myself to mention on a Jubilee weekend without it being stained with the accusation of bigotry.
Were people who wanted an English manager in charge of the national football side all racists? Actually, bad example, most of them probably were.
But crucially some were not!
