Friday - May 04, 2012

pc and race

Here we go again. Where in the heck did folks get the idea that they could speak their thoughts or inform their audience on their own web site, using un pc language.  Naughty girl. But what bothers me most are the groveling apologies afterwards. The reaction to what she said is typical of the pc world we live under today. As usual, blown out of all proportion by the bed wetting hand wringers. 

Model axed from South African FHM after sparking outrage with racist comments on Twitter

Jessica Leandra used word ‘kaffir’ - a derogatory term for a black person
Also dumped by weightloss firm that is one of her main sponsors

By EMMA REYNOLDS

A popular model was today axed from the South African edition of lads’ mag FHM after she was accused of making racist comments on Twitter.

The publication confirmed Jessica Leandra Dos Santos, 20, would no longer appear in its photoshoots after she caused outrage by using a taboo term for black people in a tweet.

The attractive model, known as Jessica Leandra, was widely condemned after she yesterday tweeted details of a confrontation with a black man in her local supermarket.

She wrote: ‘Just, well took on an arrogant and disrespectful kaffir [an offensive term for a black person in Afrikaans] inside Spar. Should have punched him, should have.’

The tweet immediately sparked outrage across South Africa, where race relations remain a key issue just 18 years after the end of apartheid.

FHM editor Brendan Cooper today condemned Leandra’s use of the ‘k-word’, which is still considered one of the country’s most racially-charged terms.

He added that she had been stripped with immediate effect of her title as winner of one of the magazine’s model competitions.

In a statement he said: ‘FHM was appalled by Jessica Leandra Dos Santos’ racist tweets and would like to formally announce that she has been stripped of her title as winner of the FHM Modelbook 2011 competition with immediate effect.

‘It’s important to us that it is noted that she in no way represents the magazine; she was merely the winner of an online poll we ran, and that we totally distance ourselves from her blatantly racist comments.

‘We have removed all pictures of her from our website and will have nothing to do with her in future. FHM is a proudly South African magazine and say “No” to racism.’

Leandra’s axing from FHM came months after the aspiring glamour model found stardom as the winner of one of the magazine’s talent-spotting competitions.

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Now then ..... while we ponder the fairness of that.
What if someone said something like ... hm ... lets see. Something really bad like, the only good kraut is a dead one.
How about that?
Well as it happens, someone did say it.
This guy did, last week.  Haven’t heard a word of outrage from anyone. But then I suppose the Germans like Americans and whites in general and Christians in particular are like, open game?
Take a look.

He saw the appalling slaughter inflicted by Germany on Europe, so is it any wonder Patrick Moore’s still sour at the Krauts?
By NIGEL JONES

If the commissars of political correctness at the BBC wore monocles like Britain’s doyen of astronomy, Patrick Moore, what they read in their house journal the ‘Radio Times’ this week would have made those monocles pop out of their eye sockets in utter horror.

For, like Basil Fawlty, the veteran 89-year-old stargazer does not just mention the war, he trumpets it from the rooftops. Moore - who has presented the BBC’s flagship astronomy programme ‘The Sky at Night’ for 55 years since it started in 1957 - warned that we must keep up our guard against the Hun, as Germany was quite capable of starting another world war after their signal failure to succeed in their aim of global domination in rounds one and two.

‘The Germans will try again, given another chance’ said Sir Patrick, adding for good measure: ‘A Kraut is a Kraut is a Kraut. And the only good Kraut is a dead Kraut’. He grudgingly concedes that there may be some good Germans, but witheringly adds ‘I haven’t met any’.

more to read here

Posted by peiper     on 05/04/2012 at 01:41 PM   
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