THIS IS RACISM?  SO SICK OF THAT OVERDONE,OVER USED WORD.

 

Gee, no other posts and comments.  The wkend I guess but I couldn’t hold this one back.
How could sane rational ppl carry this subject this far? OK, sane rational ppl wouldn’t. But what a waste of court time.

1. Don’t pay attention to the low rumbling sound you hear.  It’s simply many past generations of Britons rolling over in their graves.

   And just for the tally-book, what is the plural of ‘dunderhead’?

   Posted by Archie       12/01/2007  at  05:57 PM  



2. Perfectly understandable honest mistake.  There is a great similarity with the “English Bitch” and the “Welsh Bitch”. Unlike the “Muslim Bitch” who is easily recognized by the wearing of a bedspread.

   Posted by Len - KC       12/01/2007  at  09:40 PM  



3. Not enough information to go on here.  He ran into her parked car, so likely he was at fault.  He compounded the problem by jumping out of his truck and verbally haranguing her.  I doubt “English bitch” was the only thing he said during the exchange.  And of course he might be a 6’5” Irish truck driver and she could be a 5’1” school librarian:  it might not be just Political Correctness run amuck.

   Posted by Orion       12/02/2007  at  12:55 AM  



4. p.c. is b.s. any way you look at it. This is still beyond a joke, indeed.

   Posted by cmblake6       12/02/2007  at  09:47 AM  



5. Orion, considering the charges and the reported word usage, he’s going to jail for “english bitch.” If he had a physical intimidation charge too then you’d have something.

   Posted by Elliott       12/02/2007  at  10:46 AM  



6. Welcome to Alice In Wonderland world, where a word means what I say it means when I hear it, and you get in trouble if I interpret the word in a negative way. Because its all about my feeeeeliings, and I have A RIGHT not to be offended. It does sound like this guy used “English” in a perjorative manner; call a Swede a Finn and get ready for a punch in the nose.

   Posted by Drew458       12/02/2007  at  11:11 AM  



7. Very interesting peiper. Last year some ‘black bitch’ parked her car so as to block my driveway. Did I call her a ‘black bitch’? No. I called the police, who called a tow truck, and when the ‘black bitch’ came back to her car it was missing. She pounded on my door and called me all kinds of racist names, but I just handed her the towing receipt so she could claim her car AND her parking ticket.

   Needless to say, me and my new neighbor don’t get along too well. She also had a tendency to let her pit bull run free. Until she had to pick it up from the pound twice. And pay the tickets for letting a dangerous animal run loose.

   Of course, according to her, I’m a ‘racist’ because I expect ‘black bitches’ to follow the law. Obviously she’s incapable of doing so. I believe Charles Murray co-authored a book called ‘The Bell Curve’ that proves it. Said book, of course, was widely panned as ‘racist’.

   I might also point out that nobody has refuted the facts in the book. They just label it ‘racist’.

   Posted by Christopher       12/02/2007  at  02:08 PM  



8. I, Weston Percy-Smythington Crowcroft Blahdington, IV, propose that all subjects and permanent residents within Her Majesty’s realm be identified by racial and/or ethnic group and be required to wear armbands or other identifying clothing, oh, say, patches sewn onto coats, for example, so identifying them. Why, if we take this sensible step as a reasonable precaution, we will not have these sorts of discomfiting kerfuffles. The brute could have propery called the woman a “Welch bitch,” and avoided all this racist problem. Might even work in Europe, the Commonwealth and maybe even America.

   bark bark

   Posted by Rickvid in Seattle       12/02/2007  at  02:16 PM  



9. Perfectly understandable honest mistake.  There is a great similarity with the “English Bitch” and the “Welsh Bitch”. Unlike the “Muslim Bitch” who is easily recognized by the wearing of a bedspread.

   You mean this bedspread?
   
   Wait till you see the article it’s associated with....

   Posted by Macker       12/02/2007  at  08:38 PM  



10. Bwhahaha! Who wants to marry a US citizen!

    Indeed. Who would want to marry a racist, bigoted, homophobe…

    Well, maybe some abused Muslim women…

    Thanks Macker.

    Posted by Christopher       12/02/2007  at  10:55 PM  



11. "Orion, considering the charges and the reported word usage, he’s going to jail for “english bitch.” If he had a physical intimidation charge too then you’d have something.”

    I’ve had too much experience with the press to jump when they print something incendiary like this and would just like to read another account or two of the case before making up my mind.

    Posted by Orion       12/03/2007  at  03:46 AM  



12. I can’t fault Orion’s viewpoint; the press hasn’t exactly shown themselves to print the whole story, just the part that sells papers. On the other hand ...

    I found at least a dozen links to this story at various news sites. You can find the woman’s name, you can get a picture of her and her husband, you can see the sign she put in her window “some people call me a bitch”, you can find out that Forsythe is a grandfather from Ireland, that this horrid event took place in his own hometown, Newtown in Powys, and that Forsythe runs a junk shop in the same building as her tattoo shop.

    I’m torn between laughing at this nonsense, and laughing even harder that the court actually considers nationality to be a race. Even funnier that it happened in the UK, land o’ whitey.

    Posted by Drew458       12/03/2007  at  11:15 PM  



13. Peiper, if they’re all fed up with it ... you do still have elections over there?

    Posted by Drew458       12/04/2007  at  11:54 AM  



14. And why do you think that GB was so hell-bent on disarming their populace?

    Posted by cmblake6       12/05/2007  at  01:26 PM  

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