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Monty92
05-01-2019, 09:44 AM
What is the insinuation? That white male Tory voters should, by default, not be included in conversations about diversity? I'm confused.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/may/01/white-tory-voting-comedian-gets-place-on-bbc-diversity-watchdog
Sir C
05-01-2019, 09:48 AM
What is the insinuation? That white male Tory voters should, by default, not be included in conversations about diversity? I'm confused.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/may/01/white-tory-voting-comedian-gets-place-on-bbc-diversity-watchdog

Well yes, it's rather more than an insinuation, isn't it? The rage is clear to see. The odd thing is that, if it is true that "the BBC’s diversity and inclusion group, ....has the task of ensuring the broadcaster is representative of modern Britain" then clearly it needs to contain a "Conservative-voting white male" since modern Britain has loads of the buggers. :shrug:
IUFG
05-01-2019, 10:03 AM
Well yes, it's rather more than an insinuation, isn't it? The rage is clear to see. The odd thing is that, if it is true that "the BBC’s diversity and inclusion group, ....has the task of ensuring the broadcaster is representative of modern Britain" then clearly it needs to contain a "Conservative-voting white male" since modern Britain has loads of the buggers. :shrug:

we should take the lead from https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jan/28/uae-mocked-for-gender-equality-awards-won-entirely-by-men
Sir C
05-01-2019, 10:05 AM
we should take the lead from https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jan/28/uae-mocked-for-gender-equality-awards-won-entirely-by-men

I'm not going around wearing a sheet, i. I'll look silly.
Burney
05-01-2019, 10:13 AM
What is the insinuation? That white male Tory voters should, by default, not be included in conversations about diversity? I'm confused.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/may/01/white-tory-voting-comedian-gets-place-on-bbc-diversity-watchdog

The fact that a member of the country's overwhelming predominant race who votes for the most popular single political party is treated by the BBC as some sort of fringe voice pretty much sums up the problem, I'd have thought.
IUFG
05-01-2019, 10:14 AM
I'm not going around wearing a sheet, i. I'll look silly.

they are very white, though sc
redgunamo
05-01-2019, 10:38 AM
Yes, basically. They've had their turn and it's time to let somebody, anybody else have a go.



What is the insinuation? That white male Tory voters should, by default, not be included in conversations about diversity? I'm confused.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/may/01/white-tory-voting-comedian-gets-place-on-bbc-diversity-watchdog
Monty92
05-01-2019, 10:42 AM
Yes, basically. They've had their turn and it's time to let somebody, anybody else have a go.

On the plus side, some sanity has broken out

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/may/01/caster-semenya-loses-landmark-legal-case-iaaf-athletics
Sir C
05-01-2019, 10:44 AM
On the plus side, some sanity has broken out

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/may/01/caster-semenya-loses-landmark-legal-case-iaaf-athletics

Is there an intimation in there that she sports a pair of clockweights, or did I imagine that?
Burney
05-01-2019, 10:54 AM
Is there an intimation in there that she sports a pair of clockweights, or did I imagine that?

Surely part of this whole thing should have involved everyone having a good shufti at her downstairs mix-up?

Is that not your first port of call in these matters?
Burney
05-01-2019, 11:01 AM
On the plus side, some sanity has broken out

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/may/01/caster-semenya-loses-landmark-legal-case-iaaf-athletics

This is one of the worst sentences I have ever had the misfortune to read. :-(


“While the evidence available so far has not established that those concerns negate the conclusion of prima facie proportionality, this may change in the future unless constant attention is paid to the fairness of how the Regulations are implemented”
Burney
05-01-2019, 11:03 AM
Is there an intimation in there that she sports a pair of clockweights, or did I imagine that?

Always reminds me of the joke about Fatima Whitbread where she goes to the doctor complaining that she's started to grow hair on her torso and he asks her where it finishes. To which she answers *Gruff voice* "Just above me bóllocks". :hehe:

Nobody seems to tell jokes anymore, do they? It's very sad.