A loving parent can, and should check these things.
With that said, let’s imagine a world where some people do bad things, or do things you don’t expect.
No amount of caution and preparedness can eradicate that.
Significantly reduce? Of course.
Now imagine if this story was the other way round. White person says a convergence of people is terribly black.
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i know right?
the world is full of injustice…
Whatever one thinks about the Royal Family, it’s a strange criticism to complain that they aren’t black enough.
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Did you fall down stairs and hit your head or something?
Jesus wept.
I find it interesting that here in France, for both my kid’s team sports, handball for my daughter, and rink hockey for my son, they both take a team bus for travelling to away matches. This weekend that team bus will be for the national finals over in Pays de la Loire. Parents travel separately.
In UK, it was my experience that all travel was handled by the parents, where other parents and coaches were car pooling and taking children separately which IMO I find a bit riskier. In the UK, I only let my kids car pool with one family because they were close friends and that was for national training.
At least one of my wife or I goes to competitions for the kids. My daughter is 14 and we have been gradually giving her more independence, but I agree on watching your kid like a hawk and weighing up the ‘perv risk’ in every element of your kids lives.
What? That a white person said there were too many black people in the Royal Family?
I think that literally is what the Telegraph have been going with since Harry got married.
No, imagine a white person saying there were too many black people anywhere. We either have equality or we don’t. In this case we absolutely don’t.
That’s because one group is an oppressed minority, and the other is a privileged majority. This stuff really isn’t hard. There is a world of difference between a black person pointing out under representation, and a white person doing it.
In your quest for equality, a good place to start might not be insisting white people are protected from black people pointing out facts. Just a thought.
So we don’t have equality? Odd, I always thought that was the point? Out of interest, how long should this inequality last for?
It’s only a “fact” that that balcony is terribly white if you’re a racist. Negative comment about people’s skin colour = racism.
Your fixation on pointing put your perceived instances of racism towards white people is entirely typically of the fragility displayed in certain white people about race.
Do you want an equal society? Genuine question?
Not quite true in relation to the royal family. This is an institution that in recent years acquired its first person of colour through marriage. That person was subject to enough racism from within the family and in society in general that she and her husband fled.
Pointing out the whiteness of the balcony, is not just an observation about skin colour. It’s a comment on the racism at the heart of that institution.
White lives matter too? Is that what you’re saying.
Don’t we all? But my idea of equality and yours I suspect differs.
You missed the usage of the word terribly. Making a racist comment about a racist is still, you know, racist.
I don’t know. I come across a lot of people who talk a good game on equality, but don’t seem to want to compromise their vision of what society looks like.
Rebalancing society to correct that black people are disadvantaged means us white people are going to have to give up a bit of our advantage. We can’t raise one side of the see-saw without the other one coming down.
Some white people see any attempt to do this (like positive discrimination, for example) as an example of racism against them. And this is why equality is always going to be elusive.
In the context of a our structurally racist society, picking out this minor comment as an example of racism, feels a bit racist too.
Black people currently disadvantaged in the UK? Pretty sure any kind of discrimination is illegal? Or are we back on CRT?
We also then need to work out how many groups have been disadvantaged over the years. Women? Asians? Short people? Fat people? Gingers? How do you rebalance for the girl who took far too much abuse at school for being flat chested or the girl who started puberty at 8? I’m not equating slavery with being bullied, I’m pointing out that in a quest to rebalance, you open up a serious pandora’s box. More men than women commit suicide, rebalance? More men than women are subject to violent attacks, rebalance? More men than women are homeless etc etc etc. Equality of opportunity is the key and I think we’re doing very well on that here right now.
This is, in a nutshell, why equality remains elusive.
As soon as we try and talk about it, it’s a fucking tsunami of whataboutery.