A couple of excellent posts there, divine_msn.

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<< Racism is not about race, like rape is not about sex: it is about the abuse of power. >>

Eh??

Mitch / Michel, you’ve got be kidding! Yes it can be about the abuse of power, but it is always about race!

Oh, except when it is unconscious and unintended to be racist… in which case it is surely not racist!

<< One cannot but wonder if these apologists also would like to be called 'ape' by their boss, or if they condone their children being called 'apes' at school by the majority of children and teachers. >>

Yes. This is what we should be concentrating on – insults and belittlement of all sorts, and not just those that are racist or might have some possible racial connotations.

Treating racist or supposedly racist comments as being an order or two of magnitude worse is just absurd.

<< …apologists for racism… >>

Excuse me, those on the other side of the debate to yourself are not apologists for racism. I (and I’m sure the others on this thread) wish to see REAL damaging racism curtailed, along with REAL insolent behaviour of all sorts that significantly negatively affects other people.

Suddenly in Poirots mind the 'majority ' becomes the 'aggressive majority '. Normally in Australia the 'aggressive ' ones are the minorities (eg gay lobby or unionist). Funny how the left always redefine meanings to support their views. The majority just happen to know that their are far bigger issues in the world than one overpaid footballer who has benefited greatly by European settlement being 'hurt ' by an evolutionist comment. You really should stop judging the 'aggressive majority'whoever they might be Poirot and look at the over represented views of the minority.

Hi runner.

"Aggressive majority" is the euphemism you use when you don't want to say "white people", because you don't want people to know you are an anti racist who is a racist.

It is strange how people who call themselves "progressives" are the least in touch with the contemporary postmodernist zeitgeist.

In an age of uncertainty, ambiguity and paradox, they seek a new Puritanism, a new dualistic Zoroastrianism, where there is always a right/wrong on/off answer for everything.
And all heretics must be hunted down and destroyed.

Even their term "politically correct" is ridiculous.
As if there are "correct", and therefore "incorrect", *political* opinions!
There are correct and incorrect answers only in mathematics and physical science.

Okay, folks, hands up - I'm beat.

runner's, on the job, ably assisted by LEGO and his scholarly term "anti- racist"....Shocka brings up the rear.

Sorry to impose an alternative view...you folks go right on ahead mentoring children to yell abuse at the footy.

That's what it's all about, apparently

Dear Poirot,

I think you are a humane sensitive person. Boorishness and ridicule apparently are accepted by some regardless of how it can hurt.