Kicking Off in Paris Again

[LucidDementia]

Offensive to who? I'm brown (although part Polynesian, not Mediterranean or ME), it's better than a lot of other words out there....

Don't fret. This is standard populace rhetoric. He doesn't get that saying your skin is brown isn't racist, it's just truth.
It's the suggestion that the colour of your skin makes you different/lesser/more dangerous which would be racist. (Which I of course don't think at all)

In fact I'd go as far as to say most of the brown people I know are nicer, as a group, than the white/pinkish ones.

Addendum- Actually isn't it funny that we live in such a daft PC world now that even mentioning that one person has a different skin colour to another is considered racist by the unwashed? That we come in different shades isn't a bad thing, or an evil thing, it simply is. I'm white, many folk are different shades of brown, some are black. Guess what? All human. All born naked, wrinkly and hopeless. -Addendum

[MicrosoftBob]

If you're going to call someone racist I'd suggest you fully understand the definition of the word. Referring to brown people, white people or green people is no such thing.

If you're going to be racist I'd suggest you fully understand the word before making you self look even more of a wally

[LucidDementia]

Last time I checked we voted not to attack Syria by the elected H of P.

So what?

[LucidDementia]

If you're going to be racist I'd suggest you fully understand the word before making you self look even more of a wally

Thanks. I fully understand the word. When I need educating on the English language by someone who cannot even spell the word "yourself" I will be sure to give you a call.

[PurpleGorilla]

So what?

You were suggesting politicians are there to represent the people.

This was a perfect demonstration of this principal.

Lessons were learnt after Op Telic.

[MrMarkyMark]

Ok, please can we stop calling people 'brown people'. It is offensive.

My other half calls herself brown, nothing offensive about it - she's Jamaican.
Fed up with people, on here, dropping the racist card all the time, its very tedious.

There is so much Daily Mail type rubbish written on this thread, its untrue.
Its far more interesting to talk to Muslims, I know, about this, it provides a far more balanced view.

The west has always supported various factions, over the years, for its own aims, no one can deny that. Unfortunately, these "social experiments" don't always work the way they wished.

There are official, copies, of US documents, that describe the past support for Al Qaeda and the US strategies and reasoning, for the support, at the time, Al Qaeda then morphed into ISIS.

Its a bit disingenuous to lump ISIS them all under 1 banner, they are actually different ideological factions, within, what we call ISIS.
To be fair, this was alluded to earlier.

Funded by the Saudis, buying our weapons, which they then use against us.

I agree, its not our fault, however, it is the fault of the people we have chosen to lead us.

Watch the snoopers charter, go through, now, in fact they will probably initiate something similar, in the US, if they think they can get away with it.

[PurpleGorilla]

Well I'm white, and I find the term 'brown people' extremely offensive.

[MicrosoftBob]

Thanks. I fully understand the word. When I need educating on the English language by someone who cannot even spell the word "yourself" I will be sure to give you a call.

So you're a grammar nazi and a racist

[LucidDementia]

Well I'm white, and I find the term 'brown people' extremely offensive.

You're becoming a fairly obvious idiot.

[PurpleGorilla]

You're becoming a fairly obvious idiot.

Why?