Undo Whiteness

[fender62]

very strange story, how true is it? i assume it's like council employee training, but in the usa.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8504187/City-Seattle-held-segregated-training-session-white-staff-aimed-undoing-whiteness.html

[emmie]

perhaps they want to erase us altogether

[ToraToraTora]

Sounds like more LibFac erotica to me. Undoing Whiteness? You mean like blacking up? Are the B&WMs about to make a comeback? What a load of old pony!

[fender62]

might happen here in labour run councils, or maybe it already is.

[naomi24]

Why all the pussyfooting? Why not just take the bull by the horns and set up a course to teach white people how to apologise for living?

[AZardoz]

Oh, yes. That's true.
It's called "The New Normal".
Get used to it.

[tamborine]

My USA rellies say BLM are armed with AKs & military IS dress code. They turn whites out of Texas KKK style as BLM claim it for blacks only.

[AZardoz]

As I've asked before, what was the point of WWII ?
To fight tyranny ? On today's quiz shows that would earn a BEEP. Wrong answer.
Silly me. Actually that question would never arise.

[douglas9401]

Time for staight white folk to get culturally appropriating, starting with this (sparkles and spangles optional).

[Peter Pedant]

// very strange story, how true is it? i assume it's like council employee training, but in the usa.//

oh it is like asking Gandhi about western civilisation
and the Mahatma replied he thought it would be a good idea if they were ! - - he had been called to the Bar t middle temple so it was all a bit "for the press"

and chou en lai - about the French Revolution
it is too early to tell ....

( zhou enlai was a politician you know with Dook of edinburg eyes in the sixties. Not exactly elected)

[Peter Pedant]

// As I've asked before, what was the point of WWII ?//
yeah I did yesterday and got zapped
on the subject of re writing history

I said me auld Dad was in a POW camp and was asked why he wasnt gassed as he was in a Death Camp.
and I morosely drew peoples attention to the re-thinking that it was all about genocide, and 12 m dead.
It lasted 5 mins and I was strictly enjoined by one of the talkers ( and my! doesnt she talk!) that I shouldnt insult.
oh and everyone here er supported free speech

[allenlondon]

What's 'elected' got to do with it? I don't think Mao was elected, nor as it happens Ho Chi Minh, but the *** certainly got things done (including in the latter case chucking out the US imperialists).

[Peter Pedant]

the post lasted 5 mins
my dad said his time in da slammer was longer

anyone doing the Battle of Britain currently - three days 15 Aug 15 Sep ( adler tag ) and a third. excellent example of war at trench level and they say - we shot at Germans - you dont get the big or real picture

[allenlondon]

World War Two is a tricky one, Peter, as you well know. WW1, now no tricks there, just imperialism on the prowl.

But not sure that we went to war against Mr Hilter BECAUSE he was a fascist git - that realisation came a bit later on. And I'm definitely NOT saying we shouldn't have fought the Nazis, just that our reasons for doing so are a bit blurry.

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[Peter Pedant]

// (including in the latter case chucking out the US imperialists).//

hat is a bit old if you dont mind me saying
and er needs re writing

including in the latter case chucking out the British imperialists right out of Hong Kong. 1997
and now look at them - looking back on the times of the colony as a halcyon time of freedom before they all go into concentration camps

[douglas9401]

Any other paragons of virtue you'd like to highlight this morning Allen?

What about those who got the trains to run on time or were first class record keepers and tattooists?

[Peter Pedant]

start of wwii
Didnt your parents tell you? after drawing breath after th betrayal of the czechs in 1938

Germany concluded a treaty with Russia in summer 1939 and everyone knew in London war was inevitable

and then poland was invaded ....

[mushroom25]

// and chou en lai - about the French Revolution
it is too early to tell .... //

the questioner (kissinger) and the respondent (chou) had what can be described as a "failure to come to a complete understanding". Kissinger was talking about the storming of the bastille, etc. Chou thought he was referring to the student riots in Paris of the late 1960s, and answered accordingly. Nixon's translator (who confirmed the story about 15 years ago) said the misunderstanding was too delicious to correct.

[Peter Pedant]

trains run on time
era lui
zat was heem - - the italians used to refer up to even the 60s to musso as loo-ey ( lui - - - heem )
I used er 50 y ago to know the italian for - "an ee got the trains to run on time" - the subject of the verb was of course Lui

[Peter Pedant]

oooowwww Mushie - ya spoil everything wivda TROOF !

thank you for that - I was dimly aware there was a confusion of revolutions

hey did you clock retro anthropomorphism about covid? I thought of you as I wrote it - - covid's loyalties

trouble is there are educated people lairking on AB !

[Ken4155]

Tambo @ 09:09; "My USA rellies say BLM are armed with AKs & military IS dress code. They turn whites out of Texas KKK style as BLM claim it for blacks only."
As it would appear that nearly every American has access to an AK, I can well believe that part. As for the rest? Surely something like that would have had at least a small mention in the World press. Even the odd 'hit' on Google. But nothing, nada, zilch, can I find.