Right, I think everyone who has been calling white middle aged men ‘gammon’ (in other words, pigs), should all be arrested for hate speech against white middle aged men. It is Discrimination against race and very offensive.
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Gammon has nothing to do with pigs or race, being a description of someone who uses faux patriotism as a way of masking political ignorance. It isn't new and dates back to Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers in 1838.pic.twitter.com/hzWJn90lKR
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The way it is used now has everything to do with race. Back in Dickens’ day, there wasn’t a mixed society.
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If it is used to describe an elderly white man, whose skin takes on a porcine appearance when he is angry and extolling the virtues of how the country used to be, that's exactly the same as Dickens' prose.
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So it is about a particular race. In Dickens’ time, as I said, it was only the white race (more or less) here, so that wasn’t the issue. Now there is a very different mix in society, so it is completely about offending a section of the white race.
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The one that is politically ignorant and prone to hyperbole about a nostalgic memory of this country? That's what Dickens described.
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You cannot use the Dickens example as a relevant one today because he was using it in a context that was possible for all males in that society. Now, it is being used against one particular race in a mixed society. It is a racist concept. Can an old black man be called a gammon?
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Julia, political correctness is a culture within most if not all police services in the UK, it is the basis on which the greasy pole of promotion is climbed. They have fanatically embraced it without I fear actually understanding the reality of the debate going on around it.
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Also the same political correctness that’s seen a rise in knife crime. They blame cuts etc but we all know the real reason why it’s happened.
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Dean, its a complex issue and I think they in some ways have taken a soft option in order to try to deal with it; and it has become ingrained in their culture. I am not sure what the answer is for them, that all said I am a staunch supporter of our police, just difficult times.
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I wasn’t aiming criticism at our police just pointing out how political correctness is restricting them in doing their job with regards to knife crime. Then the likes of Kahn blame everything and everyone but the bloody perpetrators.
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Good point but you have to step back and look across that service sector. The police are part of a puzzle which includes probation, justice system, politicians and support agencies. All are riddled with PC clowns along with common purpose senior officers. Rank and file are tied
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Check out this interview, it’s very enlightening and quite chilling. She seem very qualified in her view of the symbolism of this clothing.https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/shelagh-fogarty/muslim-sheila-fogarty-niqab-is-anti-democratic/ …
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Wow what a read
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Yes. Have you watched the video? She is very articulate and Shelagh looks a little gobsmacked.
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Yes thought the same
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When we had a police force instead of a police service, it was the job of the police to inforce the letter of the law, not interpret or assume to define the law.
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