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So the Royal Family isn’t racist?

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Harrysfrostbittentodger · 08/01/2023 23:09

That’s what I took from Harry’s recent interview. That they didn’t accuse the royal family of being racist in the Oprah interview?!

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BethDuttonsTwin · 11/01/2023 07:31

Rushingfool · 11/01/2023 07:27

The trouble with this is that it's really, really damaging to call someone racist and then say it's not for them to decide if they are or not because it"s what the accuser thinks and that's that. Like saying someone is a bully because it's what you think and not for them to decide. Or they're bitchy and not for them to decide because they probably are, after all most women are. In the end no-one is allowed to defend themselves. Like some awful added chapter of Animal Farm.

Well said.

Bagsundermyeyestoday · 11/01/2023 07:43

Rushingfool · 11/01/2023 07:27

The trouble with this is that it's really, really damaging to call someone racist and then say it's not for them to decide if they are or not because it"s what the accuser thinks and that's that. Like saying someone is a bully because it's what you think and not for them to decide. Or they're bitchy and not for them to decide because they probably are, after all most women are. In the end no-one is allowed to defend themselves. Like some awful added chapter of Animal Farm.

But the thing is the comment still happened, that hasn't changed. Whoever that person is, they are racist (which also doesn't mean the whole family is). Good on them for calling it out, and pathetic that now they're trying to back track. What was wrong was how they didn't say who the comment actually was from, therefore leaving everyone wondering. I find it bizarre that people keep on trying to defend such an obvious racist comment. There's no point trying to point this out either as people don't want to see it. Fair enough, the truth hurts.

Maireas · 11/01/2023 07:43

@Rushingfool - excellent point.

ZellyFitzgerald · 11/01/2023 07:50

@Bagsundermyeyestoday

But the thing is the comment still happened, that hasn't changed. Whoever that person is, they are racist (which also doesn't mean the whole family is). Good on them for calling it out, and pathetic that now they're trying to back track.

See this is what I think the problem is.....no actual 'comment' was shared. It was a vague statement of 'There were questions and concerns about Archie's skin colour'. The word concern is loaded and also could have been misinterpreted.

Someone could have made an offhand comment musing what he would look like (like many people do about a new baby) and that has been processed by M or H as a 'concern'.

Without the exact wording of the comment we just don't know. And they won't share it, or the person who said it, so the fact they are now backtracking makes it look like an overreaction that they now regret.

Plumbear2 · 11/01/2023 08:11

He has now backtracked on the Taliban comment saying it was taken out of context by the media. He really does take us all for fools.

StormzyinaTCup · 11/01/2023 08:17

I am actually having a problem getting past the fact that actual only proven racist in the RF would make a serious allegation in such an unambiguous and very public way towards a member of his own family and to leave a question mark over all of them for two years.
Then when it suits him and to try and get himself off the racism hook he back tracks, reframes it as unconscious bias' and he can now downgrade his own racism to the 'lesser charge' of unconscious bias due to his family upbringing, ie it's their fault that I made those racist remarks.

He is back tracking, reframing and gaslighting left, right and centre on pretty much everything, he clearly can't see past the end of his nose, doesn't know his arse from his elbow and is looking like the frost bitten dick that he is.

Inkanta · 11/01/2023 08:23

He called no one racist but he shone a light on dubious behaviour that may be unconsious bias. He basically didn't call the RF racist - he didn't name call as the press reported.

StormzyinaTCup · 11/01/2023 08:33

Inkanta · 11/01/2023 08:23

He called no one racist but he shone a light on dubious behaviour that may be unconsious bias. He basically didn't call the RF racist - he didn't name call as the press reported.

He is a racist himself, was caught out and suffered the media headlines because of it. Don't try and tell me he didn't know how his comment (calling racist without out actually saying the word) would be played out in the media. and he used probably the biggest platform he could to do it. He has no qualms about using the media when it suits him. He is the Duke of Hypocrisy.

Ridemeginger · 11/01/2023 08:40

One wonders why Harry didn't defend Lady Hussey at the time it happened and before she was sacked and vilified in the press as a racist. Instead, they complained that the apologising Lady Hussey had to give to Ngozi Fulani should have been the type of apology they should have received. He stood by and watched this person he loves have her reputation trashed when he could have jumped in to defend her if, as we are now to believe, he does not agree that her line of questioning was racist.

bakalava · 11/01/2023 10:05

He ley the Squad get into a frenzy over it when he never accepted a word of it. A practice run for some form of war allowed to gain traction and polarize the masses.

Pastryapronsucks · 11/01/2023 15:56

StormzyinaTCup · 11/01/2023 08:33

He is a racist himself, was caught out and suffered the media headlines because of it. Don't try and tell me he didn't know how his comment (calling racist without out actually saying the word) would be played out in the media. and he used probably the biggest platform he could to do it. He has no qualms about using the media when it suits him. He is the Duke of Hypocrisy.

Yes. Exactly

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