Is This Not Only Racist But Also Sexist?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3051977/Anger-anti-racism-rally-banned-white-people-attending.html

/// If you’ve been invited and you’re a man and/or white PLEASE DON’T COME. ///

/// The event’s online page said it was open to ‘self-defining BLACK and ETHNIC MINORITY women and non-binary people with gender identities that include “woman”.’ ///

[SeaJayPea]

Yes of course it is. And quite stupid, especially from somebody who's just acquired an MA.

Slightly off point, why do the Daily Mail feel they have to publish the value of everybody's house? Especially as it isn't hers, it's her parents' home.

[Svejk]

Let's be honest, aog, you and I, and most people, wouldn't go for a £1,000.
They do seem to have some worrying ideas about democracy and free speech nowadays. Still, unless Labour ever get back in, their 'women's studies degrees' etc. should get them a job flipping burgers where they can't do any harm.
And knowing how they are going to squirm one day, when they look back, brings a bit of pleasure, doesn't it?

[ichkeria]

"Slightly off point, why do the Daily Mail feel they have to publish the value of everybody's house? Especially as it isn't hers, it's her parents' home. "

"She is understood to live with her mother Nursen, 55, father Ismail, 57, and sister Ipek, 23, in Enfield in a £450,000 three-bedroom terrace."

Probably to get the readers going even more: "how dare they be able to afford to live in London while I pay my taxes blah blah blah"
I'm in a way glad that we still have this dottiness. I think of students nowadays as tuition fee-owing, iPad toting clones :-)

[Zacs-Master]

A classic case of disappearing up ones own backside. I hope she's shamed on twitter!

[sp1814]

Yes...very much so...also extremely stupid.

...and the last sentence 'non-binary'???

[Svejk]

It's the same 'temple of learning' that banned whitey from the pictures last year. What was the name of that film? it sounded like a cracker, lol.

[mushroom25]

SP, which one of the 10 different types of people are you that you didn't get that? (binary maths joke...)

http://gender.wikia.com/wiki/Non-binary

[mccfluff]

nice bit of selective editing by you and the mail. she went onto say (in the same sentence)
just cos i invited a bunch of people and hope you will be responsible enough to respect this is a BME Women and non-binary event only. ‘Don’t worry lads we will give you and allies things to do

she didn't ban anyone from coming but asked people to respect it was/is an event for women and non binary only

not excusing what she said it was racist/sexist and stupid.

[bazwillrun]

"Diversity Officer at Goldsmiths University in London"

haha....the only minority that place needs is more whites..any of you know the place ?.......

now lets see what happens if anybody organises an event and only wants male whites and heterosexuals ! yeah we all know the answer to that one...

[Booldawg]

most beer festivals I've been to have been like that Baz!

[youngmafbog]

When being right-on bites you in the bum by the looks of things.

[maggiebee]

According to the article Non-binary is a term used to describe people who do not consider themselves exclusively male or female.

[RandyMarsh]

ahh like Vince Noir or Gary Newman

[naomi24]

Diversity Officers don't appear to be employed to encourage diversity, but simply to ensure that so-called minority groups take precedence. Utter nonsense!

[youngmafbog]

It's the Student Union isn't it not the Uni, so no real surprises that this should happen.

Students live in cloud cuckoo land - usually until they start having to pay for their lefty ideals

[Svejk]

They're a great craic though, aren't they, when you hear them being asked for an opinion. They look so earnest and then they open their gobs and pure gibberish pours forth. Bless ;o)

[Deskdiary]

I really do learn something new every day - I've never heard the term non-binary people before.

Although, that said, I have now stored the term in that part of my brain which stores other terms that also come under the heading of complete ar5ewater.

[anotheoldgit]

Deskdiary

/// I really do learn something new every day - I've never heard the term non-binary people before. ///

Yes must admit I had to look it up, but the addition of "with gender identities that include “woman”. completely had me baffled.

I was further confused when I read this:

*** Being non-binary does not mean that we’re confused about our genders. It simply means that our gender is not solely male or female, or that we have no gender. ***

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