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Gig down the Cowley Road?kind of linked ... Prince Harry is visiting Oxford on tuesday
New dad Prince Harry to visit Oxford next week
PRINCE Harry will visit Oxford on Tuesday.www.oxfordmail.co.uk
Gig down the Cowley Road?kind of linked ... Prince Harry is visiting Oxford on tuesday
New dad Prince Harry to visit Oxford next week
PRINCE Harry will visit Oxford on Tuesday.www.oxfordmail.co.uk
Perhaps, though most of Harry's visit is in Barton/ Headington, who knows he might pop to Cowley road? .....there's a top band making their first Oxford appearance tonight at The Bullingdon ( im away working!) .... Stone FoundationGig down the Cowley Road?
Well you know. Terrific. Cowley Road, East Oxford. Breath of fresh air. Top, top, top people. Absolutely, terrific.kind of linked ... Prince Harry is visiting Oxford on tuesday
New dad Prince Harry to visit Oxford next week
PRINCE Harry will visit Oxford on Tuesday.www.oxfordmail.co.uk
How is it 'hand-wringing' to say that certain people *might* seek to see this as a justification for their own bigotry? It might not be logical, it isn't what Baker intended, but it certainly might happen. In the same way that the same sort of person has taken the Brexit vote to abuse people in the street because they aren't 'from around here' - that's not logical or sensible either, but it happens. Does that mean Baker had to be sacked - possibly not, but he stupidly put his employer in a difficult position and only has himself to blame.This is the sort of hand-wringing which is damaging our society.
How is it 'hand-wringing' to say that certain people *might* seek to see this as a justification for their own bigotry? It might not be logical, it isn't what Baker intended, but it certainly might happen. In the same way that the same sort of person has taken the Brexit vote to abuse people in the street because they aren't 'from around here' - that's not logical or sensible either, but it happens. Does that mean Baker had to be sacked - possibly not, but he stupidly put his employer in a difficult position and only has himself to blame.
If you don't want to be treated like a bigoted fool don't act like a bigoted fool.
Perhaps, though most of Harry's visit is in Barton/ Headington, who knows he might pop to Cowley road? .....there's a top band making their first Oxford appearance tonight at The Bullingdon ( im away working!) .... Stone Foundation
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On the counter side, if the 'hand-wringers' had not leapt onto his post, would the 'banana-throwers' have even have noticed that a post that was not intended to be racist but has been interpreted by some as being so, had even been sent?And in the end, that is what the problem is I suppose. While an ill-considered 'funny' social media post by a well-known but pretty minor public figure (or 'influencer' in the current jargon!) is not of any consequence on it's own, it is whether it gives idiots the 'Danny said it, so it's OK' excuse. Even if he didn't mean it that way.
I didn't cast him as a bigoted fool I said he acted like one. Whether this was stupidity or not, the BBC had to act in my opinion because the fool did not see the connotations of what he was posting.Or don’t cast someone as a bigoted fool when they’re not, condemning their livelihood for eternity, so that you can pitch yourself as a moral arbiter?
Because then you become the real enemy of the fight against bigotry by debasing legitimate efforts to prevent it.
I didn't cast him as a bigoted fool I said he acted like one. Whether this was stupidity or not, the BBC had to act in my opinion because the fool did not see the connotations of what he was posting.
I also don't feel dealing with low level bigotry debases any efforts to deal with legitimate bigotry.