'blokeish Banter' Or Just An Islamophobic?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2274897/Tory-councillor-suspended-posting-Facebook-picture-compared-Muslim-children-burkas-bin-bags-defends-blokeish-banter.html#axzz2K1sKsXYW

ISLAMOPHOBIC????????????????

Seems they have now invented a word that can be used instead of racist, if one dares to criticise the Muslim religion.

MUSLIMOPHOBIC I've just invented another.

CATHOLICOPHOBIC and another

PROTESTANTOPHOBIC yet another

ATHEISTOPHOBIC That just about covers it.

[naomi24]

Got to laugh at the picture. :o)

[doctordb]

Perhaps the council are 'humourphobic'

[Old_Geezer]

Everything is phobic these days. Not sure yof our point.
Yes embarrassingly I did smile. Not all humour is PC.

[naomi24]

OG, why embarrassingly? The picture is funny!

[Old_Geezer]

Because it's a gentle dig at the behaviour of another culture, which is something that isn't always taken well.

[bazwillrun]

they should learn that in our country we like to have a bit of fun..best they go somewhere else if they dont like it

[ChillDoubt]

He does have a point with that picture!

If that's bad, you wanna see some of the reading material of one particular consultant anaesthetist where I work. Translated pages with passages about the suffering of Jews highlighted!

[chaptazbru]

Made me laugh.

[Zeuhl]

An extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to Islam (i.e. phobic)

is hardly the same as being 'Racist':

a prejudiced belief that one race is superior to others

[rojash]

"MUSLIMOPHOBIC I've just invented another.

CATHOLICOPHOBIC and another

PROTESTANTOPHOBIC yet another "

Actually, you could lump these all under Theophobic, which would describe me pretty well.

"ATHEISTOPHOBIC"

..and better word for that one would be Alitheiophobic.

[rojash]

...second thoughts, for the first one Theophilophobic would be more accurate.

[andy-hughes]

He might think of it as 'blokeish banter' - what it is in fact is a lack of judgement.

As a 'man in the street', blokeish banter is all well and good - for a counsellor, trusted to have a sense of judgement, and propriety and generally be above childish behaviour, at least where it can be seen - this was a stupid and thoughtless thing to do.

If trhis buffoon thinks people are unhappy because they have no sense of humour, he is a bigger idot than he first appears. It is because counsellors do not have the luxury of promoting their infantile humour in public because people make judgements accorfdingly.

If he doesn't want to be judged, then don't take the office, and the responsibilities - as well as the profile and the money - that goes with it.

[sandyRoe]

Joannides is no oil painting but that's hardly reason to be laughing at him.

[dave50]

It was blokish banter and it was funny. If some people find it offensive then tough, get over it. Why has everyone got to watch what they say because they might offend some over sensitive minority? Certain groups are getting to be a pain in the backside.

[anotheoldgit]

triggerhippy

/// Do we want representatives that are out of touch with modern life? ///

What do you mean, the removal of all humour cells and then replaced with a very large amount of the usual 'modern life' none humoristic PC ones?

[Canary42]

I'm a DAILYMAILOPHOBIC.

[FredPuli43]

What makes it funny?

[emmie]

funny in a way, obviously some won't see it that way

[ichkeria]

The guy sounds like a right kn*bhead (in his own language no doubt) regardless of the burka bit. There's a French deputy in trouble for playing Scrabble during a long and tedious debate on gay marriage in the French chamber. This is a typically downmarket British version of the same sort of thing. Who wants to be bothered with constituents when there's football in the telly! All a joke - of course