First the royal family, now Carol Thatcher it seems like they all think in technicolor black, and speak that way too, but hey that’s them...
What’s really cheesing me off is the way we keep brushing it off these constantly recurring incidents, as racist words without the racist intent or maliciousness...I mean, how does that one work???? We cant keep brushing it off as ignorance, come on now, they’re too well educated for that and we cant really brush it off as a slip of the tongue, because generally speaking, people don’t let their tongue’s slip off in racist directions, or is it just my naivete?
The truth is people speak in the way they think. We speak about people in the way we think about them, its just the way it is. If you think of someone in terms of race you’ll address them in terms of their race. Now I know that we can get so comfortable with the way we think about people and so used to thinking that way, that we speak privately uttered, but never publicly said words, as in the case of Carol Thatcher. I think the principle is, ‘what a person thinks in the privacy of their mind, they will act and speak in publicly’ sorry Carol...
Royal Clowns..
So is Prince Harry a racist, na, he’s a irresponsible clown, who doesn’t yet get, that his birth has responsibility attached to it and if doesn't want that responsibility, then he should renounce his title, stop ponceing off the state and he’ll be free to be an irresponsible idiot at his own expense and not mine. Is his father Prince Charles a racist? No, he’s allowed empire illusions to breed in him an over familiarity with his “darker friends”, thinking that they don’t mind him calling them whatever best describes their race and not their person...What of the Duke of Windsor, is he a racist.........???? Ummmmmmmmmmmm!
Then there’s our recently and sacked and publicly embarrassed Carol Thatcher, is she a racist?? Well, if a person speaks in private homophobic terms but not public terms are they still homophobic? Or if a person speaks in private misogynistic terms but never public terms are they still misogynists? Or maybe the get out clause is, it only counts when you get caught or make privately public gaffs thinking everyone will understand cos you do it with your friends all they time?
I think the worst thing we can do is brush off what happens in these situations as an innocent slip of the tongue. It adds further insult to the injury already inflicted not because the person should know better but because we know thats how the person really thinks. So what do we do? Do we just keep a lid on our public and private P’s & Q’s in order not to get caught out? Do we hold PR classes on how to hide our true self from the watching world and only let them see what we want them to see? I really don’t think the issue is one of simply watching the way we speak about people, its about assessing the way we think about people. Its about asking ourselves why we choose to think of them in a particular way and why we would ever feel justified in publicly addressing them in that way, as in the case of these very public individuals.
The one unforgiving and regrettable thing they hold in common is that they see people of color and ethnicity, primarily in terms of their color and ethnicity and determine their worth and value primarily from that basis. Call it racism, call it classism, call it elitism, hey you can even call it, them-ism but please don’t insult the people you insult any further, by dismissing it as simply something regrettable but nothing to get in a stink about...
What’s really cheesing me off is the way we keep brushing it off these constantly recurring incidents, as racist words without the racist intent or maliciousness...I mean, how does that one work???? We cant keep brushing it off as ignorance, come on now, they’re too well educated for that and we cant really brush it off as a slip of the tongue, because generally speaking, people don’t let their tongue’s slip off in racist directions, or is it just my naivete?
The truth is people speak in the way they think. We speak about people in the way we think about them, its just the way it is. If you think of someone in terms of race you’ll address them in terms of their race. Now I know that we can get so comfortable with the way we think about people and so used to thinking that way, that we speak privately uttered, but never publicly said words, as in the case of Carol Thatcher. I think the principle is, ‘what a person thinks in the privacy of their mind, they will act and speak in publicly’ sorry Carol...
Royal Clowns..
So is Prince Harry a racist, na, he’s a irresponsible clown, who doesn’t yet get, that his birth has responsibility attached to it and if doesn't want that responsibility, then he should renounce his title, stop ponceing off the state and he’ll be free to be an irresponsible idiot at his own expense and not mine. Is his father Prince Charles a racist? No, he’s allowed empire illusions to breed in him an over familiarity with his “darker friends”, thinking that they don’t mind him calling them whatever best describes their race and not their person...What of the Duke of Windsor, is he a racist.........???? Ummmmmmmmmmmm!
Then there’s our recently and sacked and publicly embarrassed Carol Thatcher, is she a racist?? Well, if a person speaks in private homophobic terms but not public terms are they still homophobic? Or if a person speaks in private misogynistic terms but never public terms are they still misogynists? Or maybe the get out clause is, it only counts when you get caught or make privately public gaffs thinking everyone will understand cos you do it with your friends all they time?
I think the worst thing we can do is brush off what happens in these situations as an innocent slip of the tongue. It adds further insult to the injury already inflicted not because the person should know better but because we know thats how the person really thinks. So what do we do? Do we just keep a lid on our public and private P’s & Q’s in order not to get caught out? Do we hold PR classes on how to hide our true self from the watching world and only let them see what we want them to see? I really don’t think the issue is one of simply watching the way we speak about people, its about assessing the way we think about people. Its about asking ourselves why we choose to think of them in a particular way and why we would ever feel justified in publicly addressing them in that way, as in the case of these very public individuals.
The one unforgiving and regrettable thing they hold in common is that they see people of color and ethnicity, primarily in terms of their color and ethnicity and determine their worth and value primarily from that basis. Call it racism, call it classism, call it elitism, hey you can even call it, them-ism but please don’t insult the people you insult any further, by dismissing it as simply something regrettable but nothing to get in a stink about...
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