Bluemanc100
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tidyman said:Bluemanc100 said:tidyman said:You can't fly a Union flag for the World Cup?
Kids can't sing baa baa black sheep anymore?
He's only missing some imaginary council banning Christmas and he's got the full house in one post.
The flag bit is true... The plod asked our niece to take the flag down as it was offending the polish neighbours
She did
I would have asked for something in writing
So is the nursery rhyme part
Ok, well as sceptical as I am whenever I hear these stories, I'll be diplomatic and say there may possibly have been isolated incidents where the police have ASKED someone to remove a flag. And there might have been the odd school that have changed the words to Ba Ba black sheep.
But the way you phrase it is implying far from isolated incidents, these practices are common place or even natonwide. Which they certainly are not by any stretch of the imagination.
Isolated they may be but still totally unacceptable in a tolerant society (unless this reverse racism is in play)
It's all about perceptions
Another legit instance, in my 22 years in the RAF I saw two black tradesmen promoted because of their colour.....
One made an appointment with the Air Officer Commanding the Group we were part of for a chat about promotion and why he has stagnated as a Cpl for so long........ he never got the interview but did get the promotion the same month
Another guy was working in the paint shop at RAF Valley on Anglesey, his Father immediately after a promotion board (when the lad was not selected) came to camp to see the Station Commander, he had a letter asking why his son had been overlooked....... In 6 weeks his son was promoted (by the way, the lad was not only junior but a shite tradesman)
I may be coming across as prejudiced, I am absolutely not! We are however a nation of bottlers when it comes to this subject
I wish (on this one occasion only) that we were more like the Aussies
If you start to overthink these situations you begin to avoid conflict , avoid dealing with simple issues and that makes the difficult challenges (such as the point by the OP) impossible to deal with...........
I'm out