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spinkster:
back to the original thread (well the second or third comment about the racial side of things) muslim women wear burkas FACT if we refer to them as burka wearing women we are branded as racist and (if the statement were on the news) the muslim community would be up in arms and the do gooders would be calling for the stateee (sp) to retract his comment and issue an apology...all this while the religous zealots would be issuing a death order on him/her

now then the other side of the coin.......Some Irish people are ginger...fact...yet if they are referred to as a red haired irishman no one bats an eyelid (this analogy can be used for sheep humping welshmen, (i'm welsh) skirt wearing jocks, or any other stereotypical WHITE british person) but when its directed at us its acceptable........we, as a nation, have become to tolerant of the abuse laid at OUR door on a daily basis and yet our leaders rush to the defence of the immigrant minorities

proud to be british??? am i ****.............i'd like to be but I can't see it happening until WE run OUR country

Eeyore:
No problem with the phrase 'burkha wearing woman' as it appears at the time the woman was wearing said clothing.

The significance here is in the sentiment that the 'joke' is deliberately designed to raise. It justifies an artificial standpoint (war for demoncracy, and Western supremacy) and by making a specific party (the Muslim woman in this case) look bad. It also assumes that the Burkha wearing woman was not a national of America (taking the origianl version of the post into account), which of course she should have been.

Lets look at it this way. Would the joke have any impact if the questioner had been a white, middle-Amercian, catholic, family man? No.

It's not necessarily about the words - it's about the contexts and connections. All to often people try to hide those contexts in order to discuss a point, or win an arguement (and I'm not saying that is happening here at all). Yet, it's only those contexts that give the words any meaning.

Cheers
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Eeyore

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