The British Monarchy

blueparrot said:
How could you be convinced ? What she said was racist and she may not be a raving racist but we wouldn't know.
Click to expand...

How is it racist?

Persistent perhaps, but how can it be conceived as racist?

She was asking where her family originated, a question that many people encounter throughout life when it's obvious that they are 'different'.

So in future when I'm asked where I am from, should I now view it as a racist comment............or does that only apply if I was black?
 
Slipper One said:
How is it racist?

Persistent perhaps, but how can it be conceived as racist?

She was asking where her family originated, a question that many people encounter throughout life when it's obvious that they are 'different'.

So in future when I'm asked where I am from, should I now view it as a racist comment............or does that only apply if I was black?
Click to expand...
No , but once you’ve answered should they keep asking where you are really from ? She didn’t ask where did her family originate.
Thing is if you are white they won’t keep asking they will just accept your answer even though your family may have moved to this country many generations after a person of colour’s family settled in this country. That person get questioned differently and in this case more persistently purely because of their skin colour.
 
Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese said:
It was racist and also frankly rude and plain offensive. Front page material for three days though? Really?.
Click to expand...

Editors at Newspapers, and their online sites, know that it can be a very divisive issue, racism as one topic and royals and scandals as another.

So racism at the royals is a goldmine to them. They can eek out another couple of days or so until something else which is divisive comes along.
 
domalino said:
She's a professional lady in waiting, who's job as you said is to do this kind of thing full time. It's completely implausible that she was somehow just being socially clumsy and impolite when she's had a lifetime literally practicing these skills.

She obvious felt she had the right to demand this woman's personal history and interrogated her until she got the answer she wanted (yes, interrogate, because repeating a question until you get the answer you want is not conversation).

Maybe that was just old fashioned snobbery, maybe it was racism, but either way she seems ill suited from the job - which she resigned from.
Click to expand...
Why wouldn't the woman answer a perfectly normal and common question when asked?

If she had responded like many normal people do, then the conversation would probably have continued in a polite fashion and not sounded like an 'interrogation'.
Why didn't she do that?

If somebody asks me a similar question, as with many posting on here, it's perfectly normal, and polite, to respond. I have nothing to hide.
 
Slipper One said:
How is it racist?

Persistent perhaps, but how can it be conceived as racist?

She was asking where her family originated, a question that many people encounter throughout life when it's obvious that they are 'different'.

So in future when I'm asked where I am from, should I now view it as a racist comment............or does that only apply if I was black?
Click to expand...

If you can't see that what the lady did was racist then I don't think you'll ever see racism.
 
Slipper One said:
Why wouldn't the woman answer a perfectly normal and common question when asked?

If she had responded like many normal people do, then the conversation would probably have continued in a polite fashion and not sounded like an 'interrogation'.
Why didn't she do that?

If somebody asks me a similar question, as with many posting on here, it's perfectly normal, and polite, to respond. I have nothing to hide.
Click to expand...

She did respond but her answer wasn't accepted.
 
domalino said:
Instead of joining a thread 10 pages back (or wherever you’ve landed) and replying to every comment as you get to it, if you just keep reading you’ll see this whole discussion you’re trying to start has already happened and the answers you want have already been given.
Click to expand...
Nobody has bitten,…. ahem! I mean replied to my question yet.

Can someone explain for a friend what being British is?
 
Last edited:
blueparrot said:
No , but once you’ve answered should they keep asking where you are really from ? She didn’t ask where did her family originate.
Thing is if you are white they won’t keep asking they will just accept your answer even though your family may have moved to this country many generations after a person of colour’s family settled in this country. That person get questioned differently and in this case more persistently purely because of their skin colour.
Click to expand...
I'll disagree if you don't mind blueparrot.

Over here I get asked where I'm from on a fairly regular basis. The questioner is not content with simply the country, they want to know the area and if they have any connection, request even more detail as in how close to a certain town etc.

I don't find this offensive, racist or exceeding any boundary........just normal conversation with a stranger.
 
domalino said:
Why don’t you tell us what’s up instead of continually making oblique references to some grand conspiracy and talking about a bigger picture or joining dots together.

You’ve been posting about it all day so just say what it is you’re tiptoeing around saying.
Click to expand...

I'm not tiptoeing around anything, I don't know enough to say with any certainty what's going on, but something clearly is.

Don't get me wrong, I'm happy enough for the monarchy to get a kicking, but the blanket coverage and particularly that polemic in the Guardian, with its references to empire and slavery, the idea that racism is not merely the product of individual bias or prejudice, but something embedded in the structures of society, in this case the monarchy, is off the shelf critical race theory.

You might agree with that, fair enough.

But this brief encounter has had all this stuff grafted on it super fast and wall to wall, and that's what leads me to believe there's more to it than meets the eye.

But I don't know what it is.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Unread Posts

Don't have an account? Register now and see fewer ads!

SIGN UP
Back
Top