Racist Poster?

[Deskdiary]

Hot off the back of the bedwetters at Manchester University last week, we now have Wolverhampton yanking a 'Racist and Colonialist' poster, with one student commenting "It's just an awful poster and screams racism to me...", and lecturer at Newman saying "There's strands of colonialism, patriotism, racism, gender issues" (bloody hell, could she crowbar anything else in?).

Perhaps it's me, but I don't see anything racist or colonialist in this. What I see is a white woman with black children.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5995225/University-apologises-racist-colonialist-posters.html

[jno]

a lightly clad white woman, too

[douglas9401]

The very idea, helping the less fortunate.

I hope all the starving black babies have the contact details of the supremely arsholic given to them on a laminated card so they can track them down in future years and not bother normal folk over their harsh upbringing.

[Theland]

Being offended is all in vogue. It's an industry.

[naomi24]

//The university prides itself on having a diverse student body, and of being inclusive.'//

From what I read of today’s student bodies, so narrow-minded, bigoted, and controlling are they that the last thing they embrace is diversity and inclusivity.

[sunny-dave]

Well if you will create de posters showing de fleshy white mama givin' de learnin' to de piccaninnies what does you expec' ...?

[hc4361]

Why on earth do you assume that the picture portrays a woman helping the less fortunate?
The kids look healthy and well dressed, they are certainly not starving babies.

[Mamyalynne]

My immediate response to the poster before reading very much was - Teacher should perhaps wear something more covering.

If they want to find fault otherwise, let them carry on.

[Theland]

"Woman waiting for Universal Credit begs food from black kids."

[The_Rim_Greaper]

"//The university prides itself on having a diverse student body, and of being inclusive.'// "

or in other words
" the university prides itself in doing whatever it can to destroy this countries white northern european identity"..

[Zacs-Master]

It's pretty clear that the poster depicts a white person portrayed as the do-gooder and the black people portrayed as the disadvantaged awaiting her interjection into their lives, to make them better people.

A bit patronising.

[Theland]

Snowflake heaven.

[douglas9401]

You're probably right, hc, Africa, top to bottom and side to side is pipulted with naught but well fed and clothed youth, content withtheir lot and happy to stay home and at peace.

Stories of outpourings to the Mediterranean coast, vicious beatings, slayings and starvation are merely a ploy, part of an as yet unknown plan.

[ummmm]

But not racist.

[Barmaid]

Stereotypical perhaps but not racist.

Theland had me laughing out loud.

[andy-hughes]

I have said before - but it bears repeating -

Further education is a wonderful thing. It allows the brightest minds of our next generation the freedom from tiresome responsibilities like work, providing a roof, paying bills, and so on and so on, and allows them to focus their planet-sized intellects on learning for their future.

The downside of that absence of responsibility is that it allows fertile young minds far too much time to focus on utter irrelevant pointless grindingly stupid politically correct garbage, and turning it into crusades, which gives them a sense of identity, by shouting alongside apparently like-minded and similarly under-utilised brains.

Real life does eventually intervene, which is why this sort of pantomime is almost exclusive the domain of immature academics who lack the experience of life to know what is actually important, and what is attention-seeking hot air, and the ability to understand the difference.

[dannyk13]

BA for Naomi at 14.21

[The_Rim_Greaper]

just another immature brainwashed snowflake that needs a good slap to come to their senses...shame they cant use their brains for something useful..pathetic little idiot

[The_Rim_Greaper]

"white person portrayed as the do-gooder and the black people portrayed as the disadvantaged awaiting her interjection into their lives, to make them better people"

errrm, well thats pretty much how its been for many a year..always us having to give and help them...why are they here otherwise ?..they want/need what we have and have made and they havent a hope in hells chance of geting it without us

[anotheoldgit]

BA to andy-hughes, 14.32

[Zacs-Master]

The downside of the absence of responsibility for those who are retired is that it allows predjudiced old minds far too much time to focus on utter irrelevant pointless grindingly stupid politically incorrect garbage, and turning it into crusades, which goes some way towards replacing their sense of worth, by shouting alongside apparently like-minded and similarly under-utilised brains.