Tesco Christmas card making fun of children with red hair

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I can't believe they think they should sell something like this. So glad this woman got them taken out of our local tesco - now what about the rest of the chain?

I know two children horribly bullied because of their (beautiful) red hair. It's just the same as any other discrimination - breeds hate and misery

Stretch !!!

I'm actually emigrating to Ireland in three weeks and I can tell you it'll be nice to be in a country where we are not a vilified minority

My brother has the most goiegeous copper coloured red hair (much nicer than mine) and he also has Downs Syndrome and I find the term "retard" deeply offensive as well

DH has 'strawberry blond' hair (which when younger was very red). Many in his family have red hair. Not sure if he suffered in school.

I was annoyed when I saw the news article about this. I am Black and one of my children has red tints in his hair (once the sunlight catches it) but I was annoyed because as someone says, it is 'acceptable' discrimination.

What people with red hair need is some kind of advocate, a red-haired Martin Luther King' if you like . If it was not for his and his collegues' first steps, minority ethnic people would still be subject to this type of 'acceptable joke'.

Is there any type of campaigning aganist this type of thing?

Oops I meant "gorgeous"

Wow dusy good luck with that. I have family in Ireland and they keep telling me I should move there.

I looked at the daily mail site. It had the usual crap, unflattering pics, unemployed father...etc...but the comments have been disabled? it says on home page 169 comments, but I can't access them?

I suppose I should be grateful, hey?

dusty I think it might go back even longer than that. I remember reading that traditionally Judas Iscariot was "supposed" to have had red hair - he is often depicted as red-haired in art.

When I was learning German at secondary school the teacher said that Germans think all English people have red hair (a bit like us thinking all Swedish people have blond hair I guess). Don't know why I mentioned that except that maybe red hair is a bit more frequently occuring in Britain than in other countries.

Posh all we have is Catherine Tate, who I do like but not sure it fruthers the cause really.

Poshpaws, there is always Price Harry, although not sure he is an ideal candidate . Can't think of anyone else in "power" who has ginger hair.

Damien Lewis...mmmmmmm....

I love him.

Catherine Tate makes it worse TBH. She makes it seem like, oh there's someone with red hair that can poke fun at herself, why can't you do the same??

My sister loves Damien Lewis.

MLK was not a 'powerful' man. He was a minister who 'caught the mood'of the time of Black people in America and he motivated them to press for change.

Hence wondering if there was any kind of campaign running by anyone to stop this type of discrimination.

Maybe MN should start one? Sow the seeds and all that?

I think red/ ginger hair is lovely. But there is a lot of prejudice about it which I find hard to understand. I would be upset for my children if they were bullied for the way they looked whatever the reason.

I think the card is offensive. I hate the comments from people on that telegraph link and the article where the writer states she likes to be thought of as strawberry blond!!

One of my friends went on and on through her pregnancy about how she hoped her baby wasn't ginger. Well when she was born she was. She still goes on and on about it infront of my other friend who incidentally has red hair (very nice hair too I might add!). She keeps saying she hopes her hair goes blond, then sighing and saying it looks like it will stay ginger. I find her attitude really strange as she is a lovely baby and she should be glad she has her.

Winston Churchill had red hair (before it went grey!)

Elizabeth I

How about Nicole Kidman or that lucious British model - what's her name

Damien Lewis has exactly the same colouring as DS1...only DS1 is destined to be even more handsome and talented when he grows up of course

I had comments about what colour my pubic hair was all through secondary school and even from a bitch colleague when I was working in my twenties

But Nicole Kidman dyes her hair blonde. Traitor!

Lily cole

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i agree its very very mean

nicola from GA. She has brought out a range of makep for reds too!

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My DS1 has gorgeous dark red hair. When we were in America last year they loved it, they said again it is not very common and they could not believe it when we said that people were made a joke of over here.

Old ladies are forever touching DS and telling him he has gorgeous red hair - to which he replies 'its not red its ginger' Bless him.

That card is just wrong!

I don't know if it helps but its not universal - dd was describing to me how fairyland would look, and she told me that all the fairies 'are really beautiful and have hair the colour of friend x' (who has lovely red curly hair). So you have the fairies on your side