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Originally Posted by Busman747
agree Sparkologist, I have been deducted 4 karma points while Kipax was arguing with "yerself"
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Doesn't this imply that someone other than pikax and yerself was doing the karma pilfering whilst those two were having a heated debate?
Getting back to the real point of this thread though isn't it downright silly to conclude that Baa Baa Black Sheep is racist? It's simply a fact of sheep. Some are white, some are black, some are mottled shades of brown. Some around here are a very mucky grey. But they are
SHEEP and nothing at all to do with races of people. Sheep don't seem to bother one way or the other what colour other sheep are.
It's the same with blackboards/whiteboards. They are not racial. They are flippin boards on walls for writing on. Some are black and we write on them with chalk. Some are white and we write on them with marker pens. How on earth did racism ever ccome into that? Did anyone ever imply that a blackboard was any better or worse than a white board? And even if they did and even if they were would that mean there was any connection with the colour of a person's skin? It's insane.
I have friends who are brown skinned (no, they are not black any more than I am white. They are brown and I am pink) and don't seem to mind chalking on a blackboard. One of the children had a gollywog as a young child too. I never thought of gollies as human. To me they were alongside teddy bears as just something loveable and cuddly.
As a Christian should I be careful not to celebrate Christian festivals which may upset my non-Christian neighbours? It's funny isn't it that I actually receive Christmas cards from some of them and they would think I was being strange if I didn't send them one.
Did anyone really object to shops having Christmas displays in their windows? Does it really hurt anyone else if one group of the population chooses to display part of their heritage?