Spotted in my Sun (a newspaper). Now I could understand if the copper were upset at the quite natural connotation of superiority in the White Rose symbol of Yorkshire, him being from Notts and all. But this is silly. Perhaps we should bring back a less sensitive word to describe people originally native to Africa south of the Sahara, and avoid having to rename a colour to something more PC. Rogobo? ( )
This is getting beyond a joke these days, black is a colour often associated with the dark side of life due to black being dark in colour (nothing more nothing less), it just so happens that a large proportion of the human population are dark in colour. The term white elephant refers to a financial burden, should I as a white person take offence at that, NO, why would I as it has no reference to me or my race. Just like the ridiculous term brownout as used in America for a blackout, should Asian people now take offence at that? Blackout referred to the fact that there were no lights on and everything appeared black, not brown.
Actually, a brownout is different than a blackout. AFAIK, brownout are the summer-type ones because people just used more power than there was (everyone running their AC units, etc), blackout is by borked lines taken out by a tree or something.
A brownout is a drop in line voltage, caused by overloaded power grids. Household incandescent lights, which usually give off an orange-ish light darken dramatically, making everything look rather brown. Thus, brownout. A blackout, on the other hand, is no voltage whatsoever. This is usually caused by storms breaking power lines, although there have been substation explosions, and other such fun things.
I myself feel offended by the term "White Board" when I was at college I raised thisto point to the union on the grounds it was racist and they agreed and from then on they were called pen boards within the college. I know it is stupid but it was at the same time they had to start calling "black boards" chalk boards". I was making a case! Soon we will not be able to have Black Paint as it will deemed racist, it will instead be dark paint! quote: "I'm not racist; I just hate all foreigners; equally!" Regards GiGo
Well considering the current record the met have in terms of racism, it was rather stupid of them to name it the "Black Museum". All the same, why is it called the "Black Museum".
The name "Black Museum" was created back in the 1880's when there were very little black people around and PC wasn't rife. It is called the Black Museum as the name suggests darkness and evil, associated with crime, just like they call illegal markets "black market". I can understand people might get the wrong idea if they have not heard of the Black Museum before, but I don't think black people should be offended as it has nothing to do with black people!
Hear, hear... it's just stupidity at its utmost... i wouldn't be surprised it they banned the word 'black' outright claiming it was offensive... Then we would also have to ban, white (caucasian), yellow (chinese etc.), red (native americans), etc (you get the picture)... It's just plain stupidity!!!$^@&*$%267rt1765^&%@^&£R%@&^* * i just can't portray in writing the absolute frustration I feel at the lack of respect this government has and the general stupidity of the PC brigade and that we are heading for a dark and bleak future if this continues. We are supposed to be at the peak of our civilisation, and yet we are still very much in the dark ages in our progress...
I'm black, and at first I did find it rather offensive, as I did not know the meaning of it or how it came into place. Considering the mets bad relationship with minorities, I think its perfectly just for someone to assume that it may be offensive if they do not know everything about its history.
I actually find it offensive that people can associate a non racial reference to a race of people. Should every use of the word black, white, brown, yellow and so on be removed from society incase it offends someone. I am not offended by the term white elephant. Should we recolour the black ball in pool as it may offend white people as it has the highest score on the table, or maybe we should recolour the white ball as that’s the one that pots the others. [sarcasm] In fact I think that Apple should drop the black iPod nano, as a white person I’m offended that the black iPod looks cooler. [/sarcasm] If a colour is intentionally used in a derogatory way against a race then fair enough, but in this case it has absolutely no relation to race.
just stupid... (and before people make assumptions... i'm not white, nor am I black... i'm what people would call yellow... and for that matter, I want the yellow submarine banned because it's offensive to my race...) IMO, that's how wars can start... and rather ignorant TBH. Haha.. In fact, I should add, I think I should sue Apple as they only have 'white' and 'black' iPods and non in 'yellow'... I find that awfully offensive. See how stupid PC can be... absolutely ridiculous
Some days i really think a crime of gross stupidity should be introduced. The punishment would be to stand in a shopping center in your underwear with notice informing people of your stupidity and a prerecorded soundtrack of people laughing playing. You would have to stand like this for three days. The general public decide who is guilty of this crime. This i feel would stop most of this nonsense
I am not saying that but considering the vast amount of racism within the met and the way the black people have been prtrayed as criminals by the met, it is rather foolishly named. Ironic considering that that comment shows gross stupidity in itself.
It has been claimed that there is institutionalised racism within the Met and that it should obviously be doing more to eradicate those elements, that’s may well be true (not being from London, I can only comment on what I see on the news and in newspapers etc). But lets not loose sight of the fact that the black museum has no racial undertones, the term black in this context does not relate to a race or persons colour.
Fecking left wing loonies, call it the new scotland yard museum and then no-one will be offended, oh shoot I've just offended the scottish .
Well it won't be a "black" future if the PC brigade win You are also very young and I'm ageist A while back someone asked for a "black" coffee in a Library in Glasgow and they were refused service until they asked for a coffee with no milk! It's all just gone banannas, it's people with nothing to worry about worrying about things to worry about as its teh kewlest to be a concerned person. Cannot wait till I'm really old then I can say and do what I want and I'll just blame it on my dementia
