Wow that's racist!!!

Do you ever hear anything so racist that it goes beyond xenophobia, old fashioned values and general lack of knowledge to such a level that you can't really reply due to being so dumbstruck?

Now I work in the construction industry in the South West so I'm fairly used to right wing views which I don't agree with. However today I was alone in the office so was playing a bit of reggae on the laptop, not blaring out but just as a bit of background. Anyway one of my colleagues comes back in and I joke about turning up the music and getting the bass cranked. As expected he makes a commet about reggae being crap to which I said 'why do you say that' Expecting the usual 'well it just is' or 'too muc bass' sort of answer I could only stare dumfounded when he said "well for a start they're black".

Now I know that my views are really relaxed when it comes to race and nationality but I really can't get my head around the idea of writing off a whole genre of music based on the colour of someones skin. In my mind it's beyond the usual sort of moaning that you get from right wing types and just an excessively hatful thing to have said. The stupid thing is that he's a nice bloke, just having lived in small Devonshire towns for 40 or so years has had a fairly extreme effect.

Sadly there are idiots like this everywhere.

I work with a Polish girl who has slightly broken English. A customer once asked her if we had Ayrshire Bacon. The Polish girl didn't know what Ayrshire was and the customer asked ' Where are you from?'. 'Poland'. The customer said, shrugging her shoulders 'tsk! Another one!'

We were all left gobsmacked!

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Originally Posted by Mr Jan Yeo

Do you ever hear anything so racist that it goes beyond xenophobia, old fashioned values and general lack of knowledge to such a level that you can't really reply due to being so dumbstruck?

Now I work in the construction industry in the South West so I'm fairly used to right wing views which I don't agree with. However today I was alone in the office so was playing a bit of reggae on the laptop, not blaring out but just as a bit of background. Anyway one of my colleagues comes back in and I joke about turning up the music and getting the bass cranked. As expected he makes a commet about reggae being crap to which I said 'why do you say that' Expecting the usual 'well it just is' or 'too muc bass' sort of answer I could only stare dumfounded when he said "well for a start they're black".

Now I know that my views are really relaxed when it comes to race and nationality but I really can't get my head around the idea of writing off a whole genre of music based on the colour of someones skin. In my mind it's beyond the usual sort of moaning that you get from right wing types and just an excessively hatful thing to have said. The stupid thing is that he's a nice bloke, just having lived in small Devonshire towns for 40 or so years has had a fairly extreme effect.

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The only quibble I have with your story is this attitude that being a racist is somehow a Right of center or Conservative leaning. It ISNT. I find that annoying and offensive. Yes, the Archie Bunker types tend to be right of center but there are a lot of racists who are left of center socialists too, just they couch their language differently.

Trust me....I hate racism and I don't even like the odd joke that has a slightly racist tinge. My golfing buddy, who happens to be black can tell jokes with the "n" word in there and laugh, and he finds it funny I cannot laugh at it, but it irritates me to no end. By the way, both of us are conservatives by nature..so there you go.

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Originally Posted by Mr Jan Yeo

Do you ever hear anything so racist that it goes beyond xenophobia, old fashioned values and general lack of knowledge to such a level that you can't really reply due to being so dumbstruck?

Now I work in the construction industry in the South West so I'm fairly used to right wing views which I don't agree with. However today I was alone in the office so was playing a bit of reggae on the laptop, not blaring out but just as a bit of background. Anyway one of my colleagues comes back in and I joke about turning up the music and getting the bass cranked. As expected he makes a commet about reggae being crap to which I said 'why do you say that' Expecting the usual 'well it just is' or 'too muc bass' sort of answer I could only stare dumfounded when he said "well for a start they're black".

Now I know that my views are really relaxed when it comes to race and nationality but I really can't get my head around the idea of writing off a whole genre of music based on the colour of someones skin. In my mind it's beyond the usual sort of moaning that you get from right wing types and just an excessively hatful thing to have said. The stupid thing is that he's a nice bloke, just having lived in small Devonshire towns for 40 or so years has had a fairly extreme effect.

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What an @ss. Please don't let people like that make you think all Conservatives are like that. There are a-holes like that on both sides of the isle.

Plus reggae is good music. Although after a while it gets a bit tedious, like anything I suppose.

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Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow

I work with a Polish girl who has slightly broken English. A customer once asked her if we had Ayrshire Bacon. The Polish girl didn't know what Ayrshire was and the customer asked ' Where are you from?'. 'Poland'. The customer said, shrugging her shoulders 'tsk! Another one!'

We were all left gobsmacked!

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Whats the problem?

Wait a F minute !!

Lets break it down.
he sail black - correct
If he does not like black music does that make him a racist?
Are you going to tell me that I am racist if I don't like chinese music??

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Originally Posted by fousto

Wait a F minute !!

Lets break it down.
he sail black - correct
If he does not like black music does that make him a racist?
Are you going to tell me that I am racist if I don't like chinese music??

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I didn't know music had color.

This guy is white and he sings reggae:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfpbS81Wx98

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Originally Posted by Fred Basset

Whats the problem?

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The problem is that myself as an immigrant get treated differently. If I don't know something it's OK because I'm Australian so that's more acceptable to people in the UK rather than being Polish for instance.

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Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa

Yes, the Archie Bunker types

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I don't think Archie was a racist deep down. It became obvious for example in the episode where he joined the Ku Klux Klan apparently without knowing what they were really about. I think he was just a bit simple and ignorant.