Caravans on Stroud Green!, run for the hills!!!!! Options

[Andy Capp]

Caravans have appeared in the middle of Stroud Green.

[JeffG]

Or trying to pretend it's a racist issue, which is what you implied from your comment.

(Edit: added to post #45 in reply to #17)

[dannyboy]

Or trying to pretend it's a racist issue, which is what you implied from your comment.

(Edit: added to post #45 in reply to #17)

Does racism only involve the colour of someone's skin then?

[JeffG]

Does racism only involve the colour of someone's skin then?

No of course not. But travellers are not a race, they have a lifestyle. And a very anti-social environmentally damaging one at that.

[dannyboy]

No of course not. But travellers are not a race, they have a lifestyle

Ah, I see, prejudice is a race thing.

And a very anti-social environmentally damaging one at that.

How very Daily Mail of you.

[JeffG]

How very Daily Mail of you.

I can take a lot of insults, but to be accused of being a Daily Mail reader is something I will not take!

Also you talk in non-sequiturs:
"Does racism only involve the colour of someone's skin then?"
"No of course not. But travellers are not a race, they have a lifestyle"
"Ah, I see, prejudice is a race thing."

Can't you see what total nonsense your replies are? You are trying to say I am prejudiced, but you are in fact saying the opposite. Hence non sequitur.

So they are models of society, and environmentally caring, are they?
Just one example. plucked at random from 't internet.

[dannyboy]

I can take a lot of insults, but to be accused of being a Daily Mail reader is something I will not take!

Also you talk in non-sequiturs:
"Does racism only involve the colour of someone's skin then?"
"No of course not. But travellers are not a race, they have a lifestyle"
"Ah, I see, prejudice is a race thing."

Can't you see what total nonsense your replies are? You are trying to say I am prejudiced, but you are in fact saying the opposite. Hence non sequitur.

So they are models of society, and environmentally caring, are they?
Just one example. plucked at random from 't internet.

I think that making generalisations about a group of people is plain wrong. It wouldn't be acceptable to do so about a group of Italians, or Poles, or Liverpudlians, so I fail to see why it is acceptable to do so about a group of travellers about whom none of us knows a thing.

I saw some rather poor behaviour in Exeter a few weeks ago - should I assume all West country folk are like this?

[Jayjay]

I think that making generalisations about a group of people is plain wrong. It wouldn't be acceptable to do so about a group of Italians, or Poles, or Liverpudlians, so I fail to see why it is acceptable to do so about a group of travellers about whom none of us knows a thing.

I saw some rather poor behaviour in Exeter a few weeks ago - should I assume all West country folk are like this?

Stereotyping happens. The germans nick all the sunbeds, the English queue. Frence eat fogs legs and snails, English eat roast beef, Italians only eat pasta. All the Welsh can sing, Liverpudlians are comedians. The statment may be true for some and totally incorrect for others, but no sensible persons calls this prejudice or racial.

[Penelope]

Stereotyping happens. The germans nick all the sunbeds, the English queue. Frence eat fogs legs and snails, English eat roast beef, Italians only eat pasta. All the Welsh can sing, Liverpudlians are comedians. The statment may be true for some and totally incorrect for others, but no sensible persons calls this prejudice or racial.

You forgot the Dutch who always surrender and people who claim to come from uninhabited south Atlantic islands who have peculier relations with penguins.