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No, mate... You called a lady of colour a "coconut". That's completely f**king racist, whatever her immigration policies are.
There are thousands of other things you could call her which would do a good job of describing what a terrible person she is... But bringing her colour into it makes it racist.
Take a good look at yourself in the mirror. You're a hyprocrite.
How? She's blocking white people from entering the country too because of her immigration policies.
Also, by saying that she's a coconut and therefore 'white on the inside' - that's implying that there's something wrong with being white too.
Nice one, Adz. I don't want to see you playing the race card again as I will have no sympathy for you whatsoever. You can't use a racial epithet and then justify it because you don't like the person's politics. You should know better than that by now.
The term coconut goes back to the days of slavery in the deep south of the USA when certain slaves would suck up to their white masters to try and win favour , hence acting like a white slave owner and being white , that is superior , on the inside
With regards to patel shes horrible , power hungry right wing
Coconut is definitely a slur. I’m remember Ferdinand getting in loads of trouble for saying similar.
I have seen racism first hand - it is not nice. However, there is an undercurrent of people playing the race card. That those people then use racist terms is completely hypocritical and, worse, counter productive. This undercurrent of people definitely see white people as evil racists as soon as they do so much as disagree with a person of colour. The implication that any such disagreement is racially motivated is insulting to the people being accused, and almost negates any argument they have. In this case, the implication from the tweet that Adz linked was that Abbott was getting this treatment purely because of her skin colour. Abbott is getting this treatment because she is one of the most left wing politicians around. It has sod all to do with skin colour.
But, the very idea that people in the BAME community can call people coconuts or choc ices just because they have spoken out against the community suggests that this undercurrent of race card playing people also possess a bullying streak.
How any of this behaviour helps in the fight against racism, I have no idea, but it does seem like there is an element of extremism here. I fail to see how such people can be both upset at people for being racist AND carry out racist attacks themselves.
The ease with which Adz came out with the term coconut suggests to me that this is a word in widespread usage amongst his peers. That they can't see it's offensive nature is a tad concerning.
That is just not true.
There are many reasons (and few excuses) for the abuse Diane Abbott has received especially in recent years and especially on social media - dislike of her politics, her gender, attacks on her competence, the 'soft touch' of her medical condition, her former personal relationship with Corbyn, allegations of hypocrisy around her son's education, and her comments on societal racism - but one clear reason is racism against her because of her skin colour.
Just look at any string of tweets about her, or any comment thread under an online media story, and the insidious racism that feeds much of the hatred is clear.
She may not help herself at times, and she may have been elevated into the firing line for keyboard cowards because of her political association with Corbyn, but the racism is there!
I don't agree with that - not at the journalistic levels that we are talking about anyway. Of course, there are dickheads on Twitter who are attacking Abbott and others purely on skin colour. But, that isn't who we are talking about here - going back to the Tweet that Adz linked to which pointed the finger at a media who harrassed Abbott for drinking on a train, but who have kept Cummings off the front page the last two days. If the tweet was pointing the finger at the Facebook Fogies then I would have agreed. But, it seemed that the tweet was directed at the media, not the keyboard cowards.
I say it again ****ing clear. There is nothing wrong with being white on the inside. There is something wrong in betraying your roots tho
Then just say that. You can call her out for being anti-immigration (when her own parents were immigrants) without using a racial epithet. Again - I'm calling it hyprocrisy of the highest order after the amount of times that you've cried racism on here over the years.
You mentioned elsewhere that you agreed with her being called an "uncle Tom" too. Are there any terms that you think people shouldn't use about Priti Patel? Can I call her the 'P' word if I don't like her policy?
Either all forms of racist language are wrong or none of them are. If you want to decide which ones you think are acceptable, then you're part of the f**king problem.
And there’s something wrong using terms like coconut. It’s racist and counterproductive.
Priti Patel is a horrible bastard you don’t need to bring her race or terms like coconut into it, it’s counterproductive and makes you look like a hypocrite.