Our Untrustworthy Media

Discussion in 'Lounge' started by Zhed46, Mar 7, 2021.

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  1. A lot

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  2. Somewhat

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  3. Not at all

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  4. Secondary question:

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  5. Has your opinion changed since the advent of the internet?

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  6. Yes

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  7. No

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  1. An excuse for what? I call it an observation.
     
  2. Christopher Jefferies .
     
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  3. Sorry mate, but I’m afraid that is utterly risible. You can’t even distinguish inter-country prejudice or rivalry amongst white people from genuine racism. You also don’t seem to understand that racism is about power relations, so while your example about Indians in S. Africa is a relevant albeit very complex example of racism, white Europeans (so you claim) not liking Germans very much, is not.

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  4. Please explain my name is very apt indeed?
     
  5. I have listened to hours of radio on the subject where James O’B has tried to establish what the possible reason might be. He and the listening public went through

    race
    Sex
    Nationality
    Her successful career

    everyone apart from race falls over.
     
  6. a white person can’t be racist to a white person. That’s xenophobia
     
  7. dont forget Scottish people hate English people - apparently big lolz
     
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  8. buzz feed listed 20 articles in newspapers alone. That’s not “just trash articles” that’s an onslaught. There are so many of them based on such bizarre items such as avocados and a flower that it actually looks deliberate. It’s as if the run a nice story about Kate and then put it on file and look to run the negative one against Meg. It’s not like The Mail says a nice thing about Kate and avocados and the express says something bad about Meg and Avocadoes. It’s the mail both times.

    Either way, racism or not, it’s the still the actions of people who are pure and utter filth. If someone was treating my wife like that I would be raging and doing something about it
     
  9. So I would love to be in an HR office when a complaint comes in that a white English man has just called someone in the office an effing Irish idiot. Do you think it will be dealt with as xenophobic language . Ofcourse not.
     
  10. Who didn’t do stupid stuff when they were young?
     
  11. I am only giving you the correct definitions of words
     
  12. But the charge would be racist language.
     
  13. Sorry I didn't hear his show (no surprise, I never hear his show) but though I could be missing something and certainly concede the possibility of racism, I honestly don't see it as more likely than other factors.

    For my own part I wish them well. I think they have a wholly unrealistic idea of how the world really is, more than a little sense of entitlement and due to it being thwarted, a chip on their shoulders too. I don't know how their families really are, but I do know many others with very difficult home lives who appear to have done a better job of handling their lives.

    Still first world problems eh? Here we are in a lockdown, discussing the lives of multi millionaire "Royal Highnesses", who lounge around in mansions, living their lives on TV.
     
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  14. Me :blush:
     
  15. I’m sorry. It was uncalled for.
     
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  16. I am sure that’s all true and I used to think that if he walked away he would be walking away from everything, including his protection. Then I heard this call from an ex serviceman and I changed my mind.

     
  17. Yeah right. I wish I was in Your gang as a teenager
     
  18. You’d have been fit. We had to run quite a lot....
     
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  19. chase me chase me *spoon* :p
    is the media corrupt? fugging right it is. i live in one of, if not thee wealthiest country on the planet where a large % of the population believe they are one of the poorest. if that doesent convince you our media has gone way beyond bias you will never ever understand british politics.
     
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