General / Off-Topic man cements microwave oven to his head
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His tin-foil hat, was just not cutting it.
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I have already explained: That subject, can not be avoided.No politics on the forums
It's amazing to think that after a certain referendum and after a certain president was elected, racism is now considered political
Nowadays, almost everything is considered as political. it's unfortunate
Actually no, that's not true.Technically no it isn't; it is an archipelago. But it is possible to define British people as a group of nations that form a state and thus make a racist comment. To be fair I don't think that was actually the intent and he was just making a light hearted comment.
You can make an irritating, annoying, uninformed generalisation, but state does not equate to race. That's spectacularly ignorant.
Perhaps that's because politics is far more connected to what people do and who people are than we have, in the rich, "enlightened" West, been led to believe?
Going to work is a political act, because the current social, economic and political structures have developed to intrinsically link that with your current standards of survival. Eating your bloody breakfast is a political act because the grain that makes the bread/cereal is grown and processed by corporations and people, each working to fulfill their own agendae.
Politics isn't something we put a cross on a bit of paper on once every couple of years (although it suits our current elites for one to believe that); politics is people and their lives. The very word derives from the words for citizen and city in Greek.
What I said was far from ignorant. Racism includes discrimination based on ethnicity and there is such a thing as British people but they are a collection of peoples an cultures. What I was trying to say is that can make a racist comment about British people and you don't just have to single out one nation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_group
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter...ination_of_All_Forms_of_Racial_Discrimination
Ultimately I don't think the guy meant any harm anyway [smile]