Racist peer

[Somewhereovertheroad]

This peer in the House of Lords tweets a racist comment and then defends it.
https://twitter.com/kilclooneyjohn/status/990954166741856256?s=21

I despair when someone of this standing is so blatantly racist and can't see anything wrong with it.

It looks racist and then you check at the context you find that it is racist, I really do despair

No doubt about this and it's the 2nd time he's made disparaging remarks about the Irish Taoiseach, specifically citing his Indian ethnicity.

He now claims that when he used the term “typical Indian”, that he meant it was “typical of this particular half Indian”.
Absurd

Disgraceful in a member of the House of Lords

I can't believe he is still trying to defend it and hasn't deleted it.

The UUP peers are quite something aren't they? They are an embarrassment to NI.

I wondered if it was the same one who tried to help a sex offender buy the Belfast Giants but it was a different one then.
m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/im-baffled-by-belfast-giants-furore-says-uup-peer-lord-laird-29147126.html

His explanation doesn't make any sense and he doesn't realize the problem with the original tweet is more about the word TYPICAL than about whether the person in question is Indian/half Indian or from the bloody moon!

Quite clearly a bigot and too stupid to hide it.

As a slightly off topic question, I take it the Taoiseach is the Prime Minister of Ireland? I noticed in a lot of the tweets people have put AN Taoiseach is that how it's said?

The second time i n six months
www.todayfm.com/News/Outcry-After-Member-Of-House-of-Lords-Refers-To-Taoiseach-As-The-Indian

One of the rare occasions where the parody Twitter account is less offensive than the real account.

Nancy 'an' is the definite article in Irish so simply means 'the'.

An Taoiseach (the leader, or PM) is pronounced “On Tee-shock”. There’s a particular “aoi” sound which is hard to render in written English. And the “ock” is a soft sound, like “loch” in Scottish Gallic.

Thank you OwlDoll, learn something new every day!

I need to search the google voice thing as I can't imagine how Taoiseach sounds when spoken (I can guarantee my London pronunciation is a 100% wrong!)

cross posted with you DrMantisToboggan, thank you, that's not at all what I thought it would sound like