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quadrophenia · 16/01/2007 14:23

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Caligula · 16/01/2007 15:54

Well actually xenophobic abuse is in the wrong, yes.

AitchTwoOh · 16/01/2007 15:55

i'm not sure about the medical side of things, Expat, i confess... just reporting the facts maam.

StrawberrySnowflakes · 16/01/2007 16:02

oh and i forgot my absolute favourite from last night...

picking up something from the carpet, saying it's genital thrush scabs, jade says 'pick it and flick it' and danielle says 'throw it in shilpa's curry'.

it's so natural to them that they've forgotten it's being broadcast. but why would this bother them, of course, as none of them are racist...
By kimi on Tue 16-Jan-07 15:48:16 >this was the convo they were having when she said IT

flutterbee · 16/01/2007 16:04

Aitch calm down your last post was starting to look like a Sun article.

Let me see if I can address each.

mispronouncing her name --- anyone can do this, I actually mispronounce my DH's middle name. OMG I must be a racist

calling her 'the indian' --- We spoke about this before and as I was before I am still unsure that this was intentional racism and it was from Jackie not from the 3 witches left in that we are talking about now.

saying that you don't know where her hands have been' because she comes from a culture that doesn't always use cutlery --- They were discussing whether she ate with her hands or not, I think one of them pointed out that no she didn't and then Danielle made a stupid comment about don't all Indians eat with there hands or something like that. Stupid ignorant but racist, I'm not sure.

calling her 'a paki' --- No one has called her that. Ok someone said they thought it sounded like they maybe could have possibly said it but can't bee sure it possibly ended in ee. If it is proved to have been said then yes that person is racist but until that point I think we will ignore it.

asking her if she lives in a shack --- I asked my DH years ago if he ever lived in a hut because of the part of Africa he was from. Again am I racist no just a damn fool at times.

doubting that she'll eat fish and chips --- Not racist just yet another discussion they were having over Shilpa doing the shopping list if I remember rightly and the deciding on what is the most important to buy.

complaining about spices on a chicken --- If you don't like something you complain or moan about it, you must be grasping at straws now surely.

saying that she's skinny cos all indians have food poisoning --- This was a comment made about the chicken not being cooked properly, some people mentioned thast they had had the shits (not just the 3 witches) and Shilpa said that was how long she always cooked a chicken for, someone then commented on that must be the reason why Indians are so skinny because they have food poisoning, or something like that. Another borderline comment but it was laughed off by Shilpa so again I am unsure.

Sorry to have dragged on but I wanted to answer each point and try and put it in contaxt because it was just very sensationalist seeing it in a list like that.

Feel free to sorrect anything I have got wrong.

AitchTwoOh · 16/01/2007 16:05

hang on, i'm all confused... i just wrote those exact words on the other thread. wasn't kimi. i don't understand, strawberry.

StrawberrySnowflakes · 16/01/2007 16:08

sorry, copy and pasted???dont know what happend?..meant that this was the same time Danielle said the other thing

flutterbee · 16/01/2007 16:09

Off to feed DS now but I shall be back later.

AitchTwoOh · 16/01/2007 16:10

flutterbee, no need to tell me to calm down, that's a bit rude i think. and as for sounding like a sun article?

i think that Jackiey and those three girls have acted in a racist manner towards Shilpa. i'm not alone in that. you continue to insist that they are, what, daft? ignorant? whatever... there's none so blind.

LadyOfTheFlowers · 16/01/2007 16:12

i would have thought imitating her accent and calling her 'the indian' would be classed as racist?

expatinscotland · 16/01/2007 16:13

I think they acted in a racist manner, too.

Disgusting.

As for her being mixed race, so?

Plenty of racism between racial groups.

JoolsToo · 16/01/2007 16:13

click on next to see some of the comments made

nogoes · 16/01/2007 16:14

Well I have complained to Channel 4 and I don't even watch the bloody show! In my previous job I have disciplined individuals who have made similiar comments and I feel that channel 4 have a responsibility to take action against those concerned.

dotcotton · 16/01/2007 16:15

Why can't i stay away... !

So, at worst they are racist, at best they are bullies. What's to defend about either of these?

tamum · 16/01/2007 16:16

A Sun article? Aitch? God this thread gets more weird by the second.

LittleSarah · 16/01/2007 16:20

It's not just about what is said though is it? It is the tone, the attitude, the innuendo.

I could say when passing someone on the street,

'Wow, look at her lovely hair,' in a tone that suggested I truly loved it, or I could say in a tone was ripe with sarcasm, suggesting I do not love it and in fact am sneering at it.

nogoes · 16/01/2007 16:21

Flutterbee, one or two of those comments in isolation could be construed as ignorance but to have made that many? Well it just stinks of racial bullying! If a group of individuals made those comments at work they would be sacked. I have in fact sacked people for much less.

kimi · 16/01/2007 16:21

if its in the sun it must be true, i will look for conformation in the sport tomorrow

expatinscotland · 16/01/2007 16:21

I'm actually incapable of being able to watch Jade on TV or look at her mug in a magazine.

She just makes me cringe.

I'd rather see someone being sick.

Caligula · 16/01/2007 16:26

I agree with nogoes, any one of those comments wouldn't necessarily indicate racism/ xenophobia/ prejudice, but all together plus tone and body language, and it builds up a big picture of racism/ xenophobia/ prejudice/ whatever you want to call it.

StrawberrySnowflakes · 16/01/2007 16:26

well, i DO like Jemaine and think hes been cool, but as far as racism go's what about when he said Jade/her family were white trash???
if a similar comment was made toward jemaine or Shilpa by one of the other house mates it would have been unforgivablbe!

dotcotton · 16/01/2007 16:27

I think there is a new endemol show coming up called "people being sick"

Caligula · 16/01/2007 16:29

White trash isn't a racist insult. It's a class-based one. White people use it themselves to insult each other (like Chav)

VeniVidiVickiQV · 16/01/2007 16:32

Defining a person by way of multiple stereotypes based on race or culture, however 'innocent', is racist flutterbee.

StrawberrySnowflakes · 16/01/2007 16:37

. i know what your saying, but by the emphasise on white, if someone had said black or similar it would have been taken as racism.
when watching dp said that if that had been a white person saying similar about a black person there would have been uproar!..and there would have

VeniVidiVickiQV · 16/01/2007 16:41

Yes, I think there is a difference between saying "white trash" and "trailer trash", if only marginally.....

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