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Diversity Training For Boris?
I’m not sure if laughing is aloud – but I did – heartily.
On a more serious note, Lord Tebbit, a former Tory chairman, accused party chiefs of inflaming the row and allowing Jeremy Corbyn to escape scrutiny over allegations of anti-Semitism.
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Furthermore, Rowan Atkinson has written the following to The Times:
‘As a lifelong beneficiary of the freedom to make jokes about religion, I do think that Boris Johnson’s joke about wearers of the burka resembling letterboxes is a pretty good one. All jokes about religion cause offence, so it’s pointless apologising for them. ‘You should really only apologise for a bad joke. On that basis, no apology is required.’
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He’s right … isn’t he?
On a more serious note, Lord Tebbit, a former Tory chairman, accused party chiefs of inflaming the row and allowing Jeremy Corbyn to escape scrutiny over allegations of anti-Semitism.
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Furthermore, Rowan Atkinson has written the following to The Times:
‘As a lifelong beneficiary of the freedom to make jokes about religion, I do think that Boris Johnson’s joke about wearers of the burka resembling letterboxes is a pretty good one. All jokes about religion cause offence, so it’s pointless apologising for them. ‘You should really only apologise for a bad joke. On that basis, no apology is required.’
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He’s right … isn’t he?
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Well done Rowan Atkinson. It seems to me that the tide is turning at last, hope so.
16:05 Sun 12th Aug 2018
I also laughed out loud at the diversity training suggestion. How pathetic. Like many of us this has been mandatory annually for me in the public sector. It's a tick box that doesn't change thinking. Almost pathetic as the call for an apology, what would that achieve when we know quite rightly he wouldn't mean it.
Diversity Training. I am starting to get really annoyed with all this lefty liberal PC nonsence and not just the Boris rubbish.
We need to take ur country back, decent normal people from left and right do not buy into this is stems from the so called metropolitan 'elite' who think they know best when they dont.
We need a "Donald" to drain the swamp, problem is Labour are now Communists and the Tories are Liberals s I cant see it happening soon.
I am a man without a party.
We need to take ur country back, decent normal people from left and right do not buy into this is stems from the so called metropolitan 'elite' who think they know best when they dont.
We need a "Donald" to drain the swamp, problem is Labour are now Communists and the Tories are Liberals s I cant see it happening soon.
I am a man without a party.
Interesting (if slightly TIC) article in Independent yesterday:
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Garaman, it seems Rowan Atkinson is not alone. Perhaps people are, understandably in my opinion, becoming sick and tired of being told what they should think and what they may say.
//Voters back Boris Johnson in burka row //
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//Voters back Boris Johnson in burka row //
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"I am reminded of Dave Allen. He took pot shots at all religions, and they all deserve it.
All religions? "
Yes.
They all, to a greater or lesser degree, brainwash their followers with what, in any other context, would be fairy stories. They peddle nonsense and encourage adherance to behaviours and lifestyles that would not normally be followed. This is usually accompanied by scaremongering involving unfounded threats of what will happen if the rules are not followed. Some of them do this very much more than others.
I've no objection to anybody following any religion they like provided their creed does not involve them breaking the law and that it does not affect or offend me or mine. Most of them don't but some of them do. Followers have every right to feel offended when their particular religion is criticised in the same way as I have every right to feel offended by some of their habits. But they don't have the right to insist that no criticism is allowed.
All religions? "
Yes.
They all, to a greater or lesser degree, brainwash their followers with what, in any other context, would be fairy stories. They peddle nonsense and encourage adherance to behaviours and lifestyles that would not normally be followed. This is usually accompanied by scaremongering involving unfounded threats of what will happen if the rules are not followed. Some of them do this very much more than others.
I've no objection to anybody following any religion they like provided their creed does not involve them breaking the law and that it does not affect or offend me or mine. Most of them don't but some of them do. Followers have every right to feel offended when their particular religion is criticised in the same way as I have every right to feel offended by some of their habits. But they don't have the right to insist that no criticism is allowed.
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