To say it's mainly a 'white voice' on this forum?

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I have been on the site for a few weeks now. I have noticed that it is possibly dominated by white women. If I am wrong please let me know, however I personally do not hear any black or asian voices. Or anything relating to those communities whether it be food, culture, clothing, traditions or issues specifically found in those communities.

garlicbaubles, I think it is reasonable to point out that there isn't one huge "white" privilege that applies equally to all white people nor one huge "non-white" disadvantage that applies equally to all non-whites.

A Somali will almost certainly experience racial oppression in a different way from a South American of Quecha descent.

I think my Chinese relatives would have a job explaining to a white traveller exactly how he is socially privileged compared to them.

Until very recently there was huge racial prejudice against the Irish; indeed, there probably is in some places. People who are old enough to have grown up with "no Irish" signs displayed in public are likely to be marked by that. The Scots otoh have generally not suffered from the same degree of racial prejudice.

OP hoped to lob a grenade in and let others ignite it.

Epic fail there OP, it appears to be a reasoned and well discussed chat.,

I'm reminded of a newsgroup I used to be a member of.
There was a huge arguement over something trivial and the OP ended up accusing one of the members of racism. Causing many faces as ethnicity had never been discussed, and there were many different nationalities on there.

Turned out race of the OP and the person she accused were exactly the same. Op flounced.

For the purposes of MN, I have no colour. I'm just Vince and I like to be perpendicular.

Where are you, OP?

How can you tell and what the fuck does it matter? (Personally I'm purple not white).

"KatherinaMinola - Islamaphobia has nothing to do with this thread.

I really despise the ideology/philosophy of the the koran and hadiths.

I am non white and come from a country that is 98% muslim.

There are a lot ofn'white British' people who hate the ideology of the christian bible.

Please do not equate dislike of certain religious beliefs with racism. I find oponions like yours illogical, silly and quite frankly RACIST."

redshifter: taking issue with the ideology/philosophy of Islam is not (in isolation) Islamophobia. Islamophobia is a xenophobic mentality towards Muslims (parallels with 1920s/30s/40s Germany).

A few people seem to have got hung up on my brief reference to Islamophobia, which is a pity - I only mentioned it because I'd seen a few Islamophobic posts recently. Islamophobia is a subset of racism. I was raising the issue that there is racism on the boards here and it does often go unchecked.

Why are people continuing to reply to this absent op?

I'm not replying to the OP anymore - but I am replying to the people who said I was talking bollocks...

HoFuckingHo - hummmm, gimp mask and orthopaedic shoes. Interesting. Whatever tickles your fancy...

What's a white voice? Is it if you say 'spiffing marmalade old chaps' a lot or something?

I have name changed for this because I AM BLACK and I self censor on MN because I can't be arsed with all the goady crap.

In RL I am 'conscious' and political.

And as in RL, in MN life I am aware of racism and the deliberate or subconscious bias that is associated.

So in MN life I choose to be ethnically blank and not have that bother. It's
fascinating. Some people say the silliest things when they think that everyone is white like them , but I stick around because there are some witty and wise folk on here and because MN thread reading helps with my insomnia.

Now everybody sing... ' Ebony and Ivory ... Go together in perfect harmony' Merry Christmas

i didnt realise typed words on a screen had a racial colour on them...and op, to your 'few weeks' I give you my nine years on here.

And the name change of the week award goes tooooo......

sidebysideonmypianokeyboard

Oh Lord, why dooon't weeeeeeee?

Love it

I had one particularly nasty poster assume that I wasn't white because I was calling her out on her racist views .

Because if I was white (like her), shouldn't I be offended by these immigrants being given council houses and benefits like they're going out of fashion? And if I wasn't offended, then obviously I'm one of them too.

Surely something like that just proves that there are no 'white, black, Asian' voices, just voices of reason and voices of stupidity.

the only thing of McCartney's I can stand.

Although would like to point that it's actually live together in perfect harmony

Many years ago when I was a young stripling of a thing in the days when you could see green fields from Mumsnet towers, I went to a mumsnet meet up and was startled to discover that a poster I had discussed many things with is black. It was particularly ridiculous of me to assume that any poster who hadn't declared a skin colour was white because my own son isn't white

My word, I did feel silly.

Just saying OP, that you may want to reflect on my silly assumptions.

Did it have a giant keyboard in the video or am I getting confused with Big?

Wilson - I rather think you're thinking of Big.

I just remember that they were sitting playing together.

But I was very young and could be wrong.

I'm just about MrsTerry only liking one McCartney song

Agree with KatherinaMinola.

Wilson that's one more than me. What a strange thread this is.

Obviously I was but a babe in arms meself heartbroken I had it on a single. It would have better if they had a giant keyboard though.

MrsTerry is dead right btw. There are NO good McCartney songs. Except Pipes of Peace and that is only because it was no 1 during my one and only school residential trip.

'heartbroken' is my favourite Lloyd Cole song incidentally. So in my head you are an art school boy with a quiff. Int the Interweb marvellous?

I've got a good plaintain recipe, and brown children. Do I count?