dsr wrote:You mean because he wrote an article about what black women wear? Racist and sexist too, presumably. If you think that Boris was racist in that article, then God forbid you should ever go to Denmark - clearly they are Ku Klux Klan in comparison. And that's the government that went far beyond talking aobut letter boxes; they banned the whole outfit.
And as for the one about being racist because he suggested a man with Kenyan origins may have a certain prejudice about colonialism and the British Empire - well, many people on here have suggested that black people's attitudes are affected by their ancestry as slaves. What a bunch of racists? Of course not.
Just in case you are still confused as to why Spijed might have thought Johnson was more than a bit racist, here's a bit of supporting evidence:
In his
2002 column in the Spectator, Boris penned an article titled: “Africa is a mess, but we can’t blame colonialism”.
In the piece, Boris
described the continent as a “blot” and suggested that it would be better off if it was colonised again, writing:
“The problem is not that we were once in charge, but that we are not in charge any more…the best fate for Africa would be if the old colonial powers, or their citizens, scrambled once again in her direction; on the understanding that this time they will not be asked to feel guilty.”
In
2002, in a column in the Telegraph, he described black people as “piccaninnies” with “watermelon smiles”.
In his column
in the Telegraph in 2006. described Papua New Guineans as
prone to “cannibalism” and “chief-killing”
In 2008, under his editorship at the Spectator, he allowed a piece to be printed that claimed black people have lower IQs, .
“Orientals…have larger brains and higher IQ scores,” the piece read. “Blacks are at the other pole.”
In
2013, Boris suggested that the increase in Malaysian women going to university was down to the fact that they have
“got to find men to marry”. Groans were reportedly heard from Malaysian women in the audience.
In a Tory party conference speech in 2016, Boris claimed that “the values of global Britain are needed more than ever” and that British “beliefs” are necessary to “lift the world out of poverty”.
After Barack Obama suggested that the UK should remain in the EU, Johnson said that the then-president
should stay out of the conversation as he was “part-Kenyan” and had an “ancestral dislike” for the UK.
Last summer, Boris wrote in his column in the Telegraph that the burqa was “oppressive and ridiculous”, comparing Muslim women to “bank-robbers” and “letterboxes”.
And just to show that it's not just people of other races, faiths and cultures he disrespects, here are a few more comments that rather suggest he might not be quite the right sort of guy to lead a once proud nation such as ours, that was once respected and admired by the rest of the world, (or at least most of it):
In 2004, Boris was asked to apologise to Liverpudleans after writing in the Spectator that they were “wallowing” in “victim status” after the Hillsborough disaster. Boris said those who lived in the city needed to acknowledge the role played “by drunken fans at the back of the crowd who mindlessly tried to fight their way into the ground”.
In the 2005 leadership contest, bumbling BoJo said “voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3”. (Obviously a joke, but entirely inappropriate)
In his Spectator column in 2007 he blamed rising house prices on women graduates .
In the same article, he managed to wrap classism into sexism, writing: “The result is that in families on lower incomes the women have absolutely no choice but to work, often with adverse consequences for family life and society as a whole – in that unloved and undisciplined children are more likely to become hoodies, NEETS, and mug you on the street corner.”
Boris was asked to apologise after referring to Emily Thornberry using her husband’s name to ridicule her in the commons in early 2018.
Also in 2007, he described Hillary Clinton as looking like a “sadistic nurse in a mental hospital”. (Again clearly a joke, but this was about someone who might quite easily have been meeting as US President in hs time as Foreign Sec)
Of course, most of the above might well be regarded as a bit of harmless fun - assuming, that is, that you're either living in the 1970s / 80s, or a racist yourself.
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