White Middle Class pose biggest terrorist threat

[Gromit]

Just hours BEFORE the Norweigan attack, the Daily Mail published this report...

// The promotional video is part of Homeland Security's $10million 'See Something, Say Something' programme as they believe it will help curb random acts of terrorism by individuals.

But the controversial video has angered some Americans due to the fact all the actors who play the would-be terrorists in the video are white //

Read more: http://www.dailymail....ts.html#ixzz1TE15JlMv //

http://www.dailymail....tml?ito=feeds-newsxml

A Curious coincidence.

[ludwig]

NJ, I like you but that really is hilarious. I'm surprised all this interweb business isn't a bit new-fangled for you - do you dictate while the butler operates the computer or something?

[Booldawg]

no different to all the benefit fraud ads screened on uk tv a few years back. they had 4 or 5 different ones - all the benefit cheats were portrayed by white actors.

[jake-the-peg]

NJ

Reminds me of Mr Justice Harman

who in 1990 famously asked

"Who is Gazza?"

The reply:

'M'lud he is a footballer of some renown"

"Really? Asssociation or Rugby?"

[anotheoldgit]

Kromovaracun

/// when people are doing it to your "side"? ///

This savage nutter is not on my side and neither am I on his side, and I take exception to your inference.

I wonder if the perpetrator had been black or Asian we would be having this debate now?

[NOX]

No if he had been black or asian we would have been having an all out ' told ya so', 'send em all home' rant as is usual in this neck of the woods.As it is we have to come to terms with the fact that white people do bad things too- plus I don't recall many Muslim IRA men either for that matter- and I think the Bader Meinhof gang were all white as well- well fancy.

[anotheoldgit]

The Judge isn't on his own I have only heard of Denzil Washington, Will Smith, and Morgan Freeman.

But could not tell you what films they have been in except to say, I believe Washington generally plays the 'boss', Smith is some kind of comedy actor and isn't Freeman renowned for his voice?

[jno]

regrettably, the posts from NJ and aog, which I am sure are accurate, suggest how easy it is to be right-wing if you don't actually know much about the subject you're discussing. I'm not a great filmgoer myself, since my hearing started to go, but I still manage to be aware of the growing number of successful black actors.

[Ankou]

i wonder if the two german men - christian and robert - arrested at dover and charged with terrorism acts are white.

[emmie]

there appears at least from what i have read and heard in the news, in the past, a direct link between Libya Col Ghaddafi and the IRA, supplying arms and training. As to black actors, what has that got to do with the OP

[pa___ul3]

Em10 makes an interesting point, would someone be able to clarify where the line is between one man being a murdering lunatic and being a terrorist. Is it solely down to the intended cause?

AOG - just a point on films, I watched horrible bosses last night and the 3 protagonists went into a really rough bar to look for a murderer, everyone in there was black or latino.. it was partly to add to the gag fodder but I doubt it would have been portrayed like that if it were to cause such uproar!

[pa___ul3]

ok, ignore my first querstion, seems sp's already asked and 27 have answered!!

[emmie]

Booldwag as was a more recent documentary about getting folks either into work, or back into it, say after being made redundant, most were portrayed as workshy layabouts, not a black or asian face amongst them, not sure if it was BBC, but wouldn't surprise me.

[Ankou]

but if you look at white collar crime in the uk, tax evasion and mp expense fraud etc., isn't most of it committed by white people in power ? if it was a programme about getting british people into work and it featured mostly black people, ab news section would be rife with threads of acrimony.

[Kromovaracun]

"This savage nutter is not on my side and neither am I on his side, and I take exception to your inference. "

This is not the inference I was making. The point I'm trying to make is that you've expressed anger about the right wing being tarred with the same brush of condemnation as Brehvik. What I was hoping is that you'd see how you can sometimes do this with Islam* and come to similarly erroneous conclusions to the ones which you find so distasteful in this thread. I'm trying to point out the fallacy I think you make quite regularly, by showing you how you've spotted it in this case when it's being used in a way that you dislike. Is that all clear?

[*admittedly with Islam you're talking about violent sections/splinter groups rather than individuals, but the principle is much the same.]

[New Judge]

I was not going to contribute further to this because, as jno rightly suggests, I am not best placed to comment on the suitability of particular actors to individual roles, mainly because I haven’t the first clue who most of them are. However, I do find it astounding to learn “...how easy it is to be right-wing if you don't actually know much about the subject you're discussing.”

I made no pretention of any knowledge of the topic, only to highlight that I hadn’t a clue who the people under discussion are. And suddenly that identifies me as one of Dr Cable’s “Right Wing Nutters”! Amazing! I think it’s probably no secret that, if I have to be labelled, I do tend to lean slightly to the right of centre. But I fail to see how not knowing who Denzil Washington is confirms that as a fact.

I think I'll join the Tea Party forthwith!

[Zeuhl]

<<This savage nutter is not on my side and neither am I on his side, and I take exception to your inference.>>

For Heavens' sake!

Why can't Old Git learn the difference between implication and inferrence.

He claims to be proud of his English heritage, you'd think he'd have the decency to learn a basic element of our language.

[Zeuhl]

inference even LOL

[emmie]

Zeuhl, pehaps like AOG you get a bit carried away, and can't see that
perhaps it might not be the right word, but no one is perfect, as you have just ably demonstrated. We can't all get it right, some of us get a lot wrong, but you get the gist i am sure.

[Zeuhl]

Indeed, we all do make mistakes but with respect, there is a big difference between a typing error and a repeated failure to understand a basic element of our language.

[anotheoldgit]

Zeuhl

Yes I admit, in this instance I have made a commonly made mistake between the two words, but that doesn't give you the licence to so rudely correct me.

I think I would rather make a few commonly made mistakes in the English language, than not to hold a basic knowledge of 'GOOD MANNERS'.