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xetog

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Re: Enid Blyton - officially a Racist
« Reply #45 on: Jun 20, 2021, 08:59:20 AM »
Some really good comments on this thread, but all ultimately pointless because we all know we are racist, as are all white people of whatever nationality or creed as are our ancestors back to creation or the cave man, whatever we might think.  It is a constant source of amusement to me that so many white youngsters support organisations like BLM when the black members hold them in such contempt because being white they are automatically racist psychopaths.


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richmond62

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Re: Enid Blyton - officially a Racist
« Reply #46 on: Jun 20, 2021, 04:15:22 PM »
At the present rate of the progression of BLM in about 25-50 years there will be a backlash by
White people when the penny drops.

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Re: Enid Blyton - officially a Racist
« Reply #47 on: Jun 20, 2021, 05:49:29 PM »
yeah - both of them
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Re: Enid Blyton - officially a Racist
« Reply #48 on: Jun 20, 2021, 06:38:41 PM »
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Re: Enid Blyton - officially a Racist
« Reply #49 on: Jun 20, 2021, 06:59:05 PM »
If all white people are racist, I wonder how come the numbers of mixed race/multiple heritage households are increasing?

There's a racism scale IMO, from those who dislike anyone who isn't white based simply on skin colour all the way to those who aren't comfortable with some of the culture, and dislike the scale of immigration.  I would include many non white people towards that end of the scale.
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Re: Enid Blyton - officially a Racist
« Reply #50 on: Jun 20, 2021, 07:07:31 PM »
Of course racism, like almost anything else, is a matter of degree.

What is wrong with what is going on currently sounds as though it came out
of the Confederate States of America:

one drop of negro blood and the person is not white

So if I say to you, "Oh, you look extremely funny because you have hair like Canaan Banana (at last I have found
the place to use that man's wonderful name)."

I am a racist.

But if I say, "Oh, you look extremely funny because you have hair like Margaret Thatcher (who poor woman, was not gifted
with such a super name as Canaan Banana)."

That's OK.

Peter Ustinov had an Ethiopian lady in his family tree: an awful pity he is dead; it would be
wonderful to hear what he had to say on this matter.

Michael Rolls

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Re: Enid Blyton - officially a Racist
« Reply #51 on: Jun 20, 2021, 10:04:09 PM »
Who on earth is/was Canaan Banana? Sounds like one of Brian’s fantasies
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Re: Enid Blyton - officially a Racist
« Reply #52 on: Jun 20, 2021, 10:07:27 PM »
Gooble knows....
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Re: Enid Blyton - officially a Racist
« Reply #53 on: Jun 20, 2021, 10:31:48 PM »
So he was real!
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Re: Enid Blyton - officially a Racist
« Reply #54 on: Jun 20, 2021, 10:37:47 PM »
I remembered the name but not who he actually was. Once heard I guess it's a hard one to forget.
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Re: Enid Blyton - officially a Racist
« Reply #55 on: Jun 20, 2021, 10:38:51 PM »
Who on earth is/was Canaan Banana? Sounds like one of Brian’s fantasies
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I recognize the name.. President of Zimbabwe(?) at one time. He has a son but didn't call him 'Top.'
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Re: Enid Blyton - officially a Racist
« Reply #56 on: Jun 20, 2021, 10:44:35 PM »
Nice one zoony..🍌🍌
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Re: Enid Blyton - officially a Racist
« Reply #57 on: Jun 20, 2021, 10:47:02 PM »
Could have called him ‘Straight’ and endeared himself with the EU
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Re: Enid Blyton - officially a Racist
« Reply #58 on: Jun 21, 2021, 01:17:19 PM »
I am going tell the kids I teach English to that they are racist stating that bananas ARE yellow.


Canaan wasn't.  ;D

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Re: Enid Blyton - officially a Racist
« Reply #59 on: Jun 21, 2021, 01:21:01 PM »