Appalling Misjudged Harman Gaffe...

[Chil1234]

You know you've won the argument when your opponent is stooping to cheap personal insults. Calling Danny Alexander a 'ginger rodent' was jaw-droppingly childish and I'm glad she had the good grace to apologise. Silly woman.

Like this do you mean, SpringheeledJack?

Also here

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hmmm, Katisha

one family? three years ago?

I'm not convinced...

Her behaviour's indefensible IMO. Shame on her. She is just so despicable.

You don't have red haired children yourself I take it?
I do.
I resent this casual bullying of people because of their hair colour. Adults should know better, but unfortunately it's a good cheap laugh isn't it, and not something anyone should get upset about because it's "only joking"...

The fact that Brown orchestrated an entire culture of bullying has now been confirmed by innumerable autobiographies, diaries, etc. So it should come as no surprise that Harman is as she is.

Katisha you can't make assumptions about me just because I don't believe that calling red headed people names is a prejudice

I don't see- from my personal experience- that ginger kids get it worse than anyone else- much less that this sort of thing can be somehow considered as being on a par with racial abuse, homophobia etc.

It is umpleasant- but kids get called names for many, many 'reasons' apart from being ginger.

unpleasant

yeah, and what dittany said

how about "smug little tory turncoat?"

would have been more accurate. And probably more in keeping with what she actually thinks of DA

...ex Lib Dem voting friends of mine loathe DA more than George Osborne. Quote: "at least Gideon was born a horrible Tory. Danny Alexander has chosen to be one"

One of my cousins has red hair and he has had to change schools 3 times due to bullying regarding his hair colour. Its not a laughing matter.

stupid playground name-calling, and from Ms Harperson who like to see herself as a champion of equality....

I would call her a muppet, but that's offensive to muppets

He is ferrety.

SHJ, I base most of my assumption on the fact that earlier in the thread you thought "ginger twat" was oh so amusing.

YOu see no evidence of ginger-haired children being bullied. I do.

You evidently thought the "ginger" part was still necessary for the laugh..

Plus fofr the record, I am not putting it on a par with homophobia, racism etc. I hate it as it's an apparently still acceptable excuse for bullying.

I wondered how long it would be before the defence of the poor Harriet started. She's an adult in a position of responsibility. Whilst we may have been the brunt of playground taunts as children (specky four eyes here, in my days before contact lenses), that kind of cheap, bullying jibe from an adult is just pathetic. No excuse.

Several of my dc's friends have been teased and/or bullied for being 'ginger' - actually all the red-haired ones, come to think of it. Stuff shouted after them in the street, that kind of thing. Pleasant.

I think making this about 'gingerism' is missing the point actually. Harriet Harman has proved herself, on many occasions, to be a jumped-up and appalling hypocrite who should have been tossed out years ago. This is just the latest in a long line of idiotic Harmanisms.

I think that its not really about her being derogoratory about people with ginger hair, its more about the way she put herself on a pedestal as some equality warrior and she goes and says this. If someone had said something sexist then she'd be the first person on the tv.
It also points to the fact that her main headline attack against the coailtion was the colour of the Chief Secretarys hair.

just wondered, did david cammeron ever say sorry for calling people on benefits 'scroungers'?