I bet you laugh at disabled people too.

Doesn't really matter. The notion that only white folks can be racist is itself racist.

That's just lame.

Tom

Very tempted to make a joke about Eileen

If you ask me he shouldn't have mentioned it to anyone (or not then, maybe after 20 years of marriage or something), not even to her. People say a lot of silly things they soon forget about.

I read this to mean that they are part of a mixed race couple and were wondering about the skin tone of their child.

To say they they can have that thought, but a white relative couldn't have the same innocent thought, is in fact racist in itself.

Absolutely. I am guilty of entertaining (the thought of) this sort of racism as a white person myself and am willing to make mea culpa.

I would also like to know, how it is absolutely not acceptable to have a white actor play a black historical figure, whilst it is ok to have a black actor play a white historical figure.

These double standards that seem to be existing right now, are going to end up undoing all the progress we’ve made in anti-discrimination in recent decades - mark my words!

I strongly suspect MeGain overheard somebody saying "I wonder what the baby will look like" and according to her recollection, which could easily be different from anybody else's, she has translated this too "I wonder what colour skin the baby will have"


MeGain is a serial manipulator and cannot be trusted to tell the truth, she has been caught out far too many times now

I hope they go broke and get their 14 bathrooms repossessed live on Netflix.

Given that the royal family seem to have welcomed her in, which seems an odd thing to do if they were truly concerned about the colour of future royals, I too suspect what was said was on the minor end of the racism continuum, if on it all, left unspecified and to the imagination for maximum impact on the royal family.

When my wife first saw her daughter after the birth, she said "it can't be mine, it's Chinese", totally forgetting that her then partner was Vietnamese/Chinese!

Tom

Do an Andy Pandy à la Verbier you want to say

So Netflix has just rolled-out their latest crap. Prince Harry and her Royal Highness Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex, Countess of Dumbarton and Baroness Kilkeel, have now released their latest: „Live to Lead“.

I feel pretty sorry for any of those iconic leaders that were featured in such a trashy show.

That can also be understood as "Vivo a piombo".

Tom

A synopsis of Harry's memoir is now out.

There are a few personalities featured there like Ruth Bader Ginsburg for instance who had confronted themselves with abject antisemitism and misogyny when their career took off or Nelson Mandela - no need to add anything here......I really hope the viewers will see the difference between someone "born to lead" i.e. born in a monarchy and someone who fought their fight from the bottom up and made a difference in the process......
Anyway, let's wish them good luck. They have found their "niche"..apparently.

I may write a book whinging about H&M's constant whinging.

Not you personally, but I think you highlight a good point that the constant supply of furiously funny headlines across the clickbait press are basically the only thing keeping the story afloat. In the UK especially, the whole drama is a useful smoke-and-mirrors tactic to distract from the government.