Modern Life

[Chris38]

Baffled yet again. A TV actor has lost his job and is subject to criminal investigation for allegedly publishing racialist comments. Probably fair enough, although he did withdraw his remarks and apologise abjectly even though those he abused were of the same race as himself.
So be it - but what a contrast with the case of the politician who called for the lynching of a fellow member of Parliament and recently on television refused to withdraw or even apologise for his remarks. Is racialist abuse worse than calls for the murder of a fellow human being?

[dannyk13]

Chris, they were not same race it was a Pakistani abusing an Indian.

[dannyk13]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37466235

[Chris38]

I,m probably displaying profound ignorance, but are not Indians and Pakistanis of the same race? They inhabited the same country until 1947 or so after all. However my point is altogether more serious - is racialist abuse worse than calling for the murder of a fellow human being and which should most concern those responsible for law enforcement?

[ummmm]

It's not a race, it's a nationality.

[dannyk13]

As you say Chris the originated from the division of India, but I think that consider themselves as separate races.

[dannyk13]

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/race?s=t
RACE 2
Para 5

[ToraToraTora]

it seems to be the modern way to dis inform. There are only 4 main races of human, so most cries of "racism" should be Nationalityism if it was a word.

[hereIam]

I think he should have just been suspended without pay for a while.

[Old_Geezer]

Race is a definition based on physical traits so clearly they are the same race. But that doesn't seem to matter these days when words are use, much like Humpty Dumpty, to means whatever the speaker chooses them to mean.

But in any case it's still one foreigner slagging off other foreigners. So; same as themselves anyway then.

[mushroom25]

some people in the public eye just seem to be fireproof. last week saw the return to the BBC of a former reporter/producer who is a convicted thug, with a string of previous offences (theft, handling stolen goods and perverting the course of justice) that he hid from his employer.