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Wow, looks like a bunch of folk who are professionals at being offended on behalf of others.
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Morris Dancers' Black Face Banned
...and what about sensitivity to the centuries of tradition?Fairness, Respect, Equality Shropshire (Fresh) said the ban showed sensitivity "to a changed social climate"

oh, and the SJW tosspots who head up FRESh are:
The programmer responsible for lesbian films at the Shropshire Rainbow Film festival, who is also “founder member of SAND (Safe Ageing No Discrimination), focusing on the hopes, fears, needs and expectations of old and older LGBT people for their health and social care.”
A “freelance Equality and Diversity worker” with a background in “Urban sociology.”
A Gay Liberation Front campaigner “who in 2013 won the Midlands Zone Readers’ Life Time Achievement Award for his dedication to lobbying for lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender rights”
A member of the Safer Communities team on Shropshire Council, among whose duties are “supporting the Shropshire Hate Crime Reporting Group, which provides a major input to Shropshire’s Hate Crime Initiative.”
An “equality, diversity and community development worker and activist for more than thirty five years. He has been part of local, regional and national initiatives and organisations, including Cardiff Law Centre, three Racial Equality Councils, the Federation for Community Development Learning and Disability Arts in Shropshire.”
The founder of “Wave-length CIC Social Marketing” whose purpose is “to improve access to employment and services for those facing social challenges, and to ‘disable disabilityLast edited by The Plantswoman; 30 August 2016, 09:03.
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A sensible reply from an Australian:
Aboriginal mum posts daughter's 'whiteface' photos - BBC News
Well said. Kids see no colour; well, not as anything to be prejudiced about. It's their environment that gives that later.
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Indeed yesterday we had 2 saying how nice it was that their dad was Jamaican and 1 that her Mum was from Cameroon. The rest of the kids hardly noticed.
They truly don't care.
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Children aren't born prejudiced; the world makes them that way.
The thing that I hate most in modern society, though, is people being offended on behalf of others.
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Glad I don't do @rsebook.Mrs Hall later said she had also received a backlash, including death threats, for hosting the photo on her page.
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A great pity
Nic Naitanui calls for education after child's blackface tribute - BBC News
Baby bp once said he wanted to be black as a friend of his was.
One should not expect political correctness from children.Tags: None
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