The Racist Policies of the NUJ - The 4 Freedoms Library2024-03-29T12:11:23Zhttp://4freedoms.com/forum/topics/the-racist-policies-of-the-nuj?groupUrl=freespeech&commentId=3766518%3AComment%3A168836&groupId=3766518%3AGroup%3A108934&feed=yes&xn_auth=noI was just thinking Joe how m…tag:4freedoms.com,2015-07-13:3766518:Comment:1688362015-07-13T11:05:56.951ZPhilip Smeetonhttp://4freedoms.com/profile/PhilipSmeeton
<p>I was just thinking Joe how many pathetic people there are in the world. I am constantly disgusted by what people believe or can be persuaded to believe. Like you I find it hard to comprehend how warped the "reasoning" faculty is in many.</p>
<p>Which brings me back to education, can people be taught to think reasonably and logically, to recognise fact and to discern between reality and fantasy. I know and have met people that reject reality and believe in things unquestioningly and without…</p>
<p>I was just thinking Joe how many pathetic people there are in the world. I am constantly disgusted by what people believe or can be persuaded to believe. Like you I find it hard to comprehend how warped the "reasoning" faculty is in many.</p>
<p>Which brings me back to education, can people be taught to think reasonably and logically, to recognise fact and to discern between reality and fantasy. I know and have met people that reject reality and believe in things unquestioningly and without factual evidence. Flying saucers, demons, prayer, telepathy and so on. We all wish certain things were true but I reckon most of us can recognise wishful thinking.</p>
<p>I mix enough paint to know that pink or white, brown or black are different colours.</p> I suggested that we waste no…tag:4freedoms.com,2015-07-13:3766518:Comment:1686712015-07-13T02:55:14.908ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
<blockquote><p> I suggested that we waste no further time, and simply institute the rest of the system of apartheid, for the sake of ideological purity. <span style="font-size: 13px;">That seemed to stun them back into sense for a few minutes.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 13px;">Pure theatre. I wish I'd been there :-)</span></p>
<blockquote><p> I suggested that we waste no further time, and simply institute the rest of the system of apartheid, for the sake of ideological purity. <span style="font-size: 13px;">That seemed to stun them back into sense for a few minutes.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 13px;">Pure theatre. I wish I'd been there :-)</span></p> Back in 1988, when I was a me…tag:4freedoms.com,2015-07-12:3766518:Comment:1688312015-07-12T23:54:58.361ZJoehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/38DD
<p>Back in 1988, when I was a member of a gay "community group", they introduced an Equal Ops policy. Long story short, we spent 4 hours going round in circles on defining who was "black". They (mostly lesbians) divided the world into black and white: chinese were black, japanese were white. No matter how much I tried, they could not see the stupidity of this. Finally I pointed out to them that what they were doing was re-instituting the racial categorisation of apartheid South Africa,…</p>
<p>Back in 1988, when I was a member of a gay "community group", they introduced an Equal Ops policy. Long story short, we spent 4 hours going round in circles on defining who was "black". They (mostly lesbians) divided the world into black and white: chinese were black, japanese were white. No matter how much I tried, they could not see the stupidity of this. Finally I pointed out to them that what they were doing was re-instituting the racial categorisation of apartheid South Africa, where precisely this opposition between chinese and japanese was instituted in law and practice. I suggested that we waste no further time, and simply institute the rest of the system of apartheid, for the sake of ideological purity. </p>
<p>That seemed to stun them back into sense for a few minutes.</p>
<p>Then they decided that race would be decided on self-definition. One white woman piped up she was black, because she had a Greek grandmother. The room accepted this: the organisation had its first "black" member. When celtic-coloured me said "OK, then I'm black too", I was told: "no, she can self-define as black, but you can't".</p>
<p>This was the point when I left that organisation, and realised that being involved with left-wing politics was some form of insanity or masochism.</p>
<p>A few years later, I heard the group had collapsed. The members had all been siphoning off money on the quiet, bankrupting the group, and rendering scores of gay people homeless. <br/> <br/> <cite>Philip Smeeton said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://4freedoms.com/forum/topics/the-racist-policies-of-the-nuj?groupUrl=freespeech&commentId=3766518%3AComment%3A168670&xg_source=activity&groupId=3766518%3AGroup%3A108934#3766518Comment168670"><div><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>So the Chinese are black? I'm sure it's news to them!</p>
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</blockquote> So the Chinese are black? I'm…tag:4freedoms.com,2015-07-12:3766518:Comment:1686702015-07-12T10:17:53.664ZPhilip Smeetonhttp://4freedoms.com/profile/PhilipSmeeton
<p>So the Chinese are black? I'm sure it's news to them!</p>
<p>So the Chinese are black? I'm sure it's news to them!</p> I have noticed that given a g…tag:4freedoms.com,2015-07-12:3766518:Comment:1687582015-07-12T10:09:38.103ZPhilip Smeetonhttp://4freedoms.com/profile/PhilipSmeeton
<p>I have noticed that given a group of people (classroom or crowd) the journalist will always interview the coloured person(s) first, this happens so often that it is clearly a policy. If the policy had been something about reflecting the ethnic composition of the country as a whole I could sort of understand it. But like positive-discrimination in general there is an over representation of minorities. This is just about everywhere, Blair and his sillies were all in favour of…</p>
<p>I have noticed that given a group of people (classroom or crowd) the journalist will always interview the coloured person(s) first, this happens so often that it is clearly a policy. If the policy had been something about reflecting the ethnic composition of the country as a whole I could sort of understand it. But like positive-discrimination in general there is an over representation of minorities. This is just about everywhere, Blair and his sillies were all in favour of negatively-discriminating whites. As you are aware I am pissed off that almost every show that I see on TV is biased against whites.</p>
<p>The fate of producer Brian True-May is an example of British culture rewritten.</p>