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... Like this one[^].
A very stern and severe rant about racism in a tradition that's been around for, ooh, ages!
What the cretin (and his little cretinous buddies who've gone running to the UN) fail to take note of is that Zwarte Piet is WHITE!
He's a dirty little white boy who crawls up and down chimneys for Sinter Klaas, and never takes a shower, even before putting on brightly coloured clean clothes.
So sure, it's racist, but only in that it portrays white kids as having bad hygiene.
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I see politically correct Britain is trying to invade
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Every black person I know mourns the passing of the Robertson's golliwog.
That's not to say that there isn't any racism that merits attention, but pick your ruddy battles, for Christ's sake.
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I reckon Leslie was on it on the SoapBox.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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Link or it didn't happen.
(And Leslie only frequents the lounge, dear boy -- he's a comedian, without an axe to grind.)
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Mark_Wallace wrote: And Leslie only frequents the lounge
I thought he was dead? 
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Don't be daft.
Someone in the Lounge would have mentioned it.
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Ok, that article pissed me off.
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I've sent her editor a very nasty e-mail. Feel free to send another.
Fruggin "published poet and artist", my arse. Published where? Nowhere that I can see.
One trouble-making, useless $%#&-face tries to get publicity for doing nothing (his only recorded "performance art" is over this, and it comprised him just soap-boxing), and cretinous reporters like this one pick it up and run it without any due diligence whatsoever!
I'm sure that Curacao university produces performance artists by the score (NOT!), but he's not listed as being one of them -- and it looks like he couldn't handle Utrecht's MA in Arts and Culture, so had to use what credits he had achieved to settle for Women's Studies (I'll bet he doesn't brag about that, back in Curacao!)
Five minutes' fact-checking is all that was needed. The press has really gone to the dogs.
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As a white man, I find this[^] offensive and demeaning to whites.
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Wow your internet is slow, that article is two years old.
speramus in juniperus
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Your maths is worse than mine - the article was posted on Wednesday, 11 January 2006!
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Check, the link says 2011; even the URI.
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Sorry - thought you were replying to this one[^]
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It's doing the rounds again, because the idiot who claims to be an artist (but who produces no art) has managed to drum up enough (self-)publicity to result in questions being asked in the UN.
He'll be out banging his self-promotional drum again, this year -- because it beats the Hell out of doing any work, doesn't it?
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It does bother me, naive imperialism. If you go to another country respect their traditions! It isn't difficult. If you come into my house and complain that my thermostat is set too low and I am killing the environment, well I would pepper spray you too : )
( I kid around, I am in Florida, we have a stand your ground law so pepper spray isn't necessary)
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I thought Stand your ground was only for old people 
But what are the consequences from this law, has it had any benifits/major problems as a result of it? More shootings etc?
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I am sure there a lot of bad examples where the law is misused but here on the ground people think twice about starting a confrontation now. You don't pick a fight when someone can shoot you dead for doing so.
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Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote: You don't pick a fight when someone can shoot you dead for doing so.
Most people I know don't pick a fight cos they're not a violent a**hole.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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So you have never been to Florida then?
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Let's say, just for discussion, that Zwarte Piet is black.
Let's say, just for discussion, that Zwarte Piet was a black slave.
I guess I'm wondering why it's important to wipe out any trace of slave history. I should think there would be some benefit - on some level - as a form of remembrance. I should think that we'd want to remember that we've a history of marginalizing people based upon their skin color.
My wife has an ancestor that was abducted off the cost of Scotland about 200 years ago.
He was forced to work as a white slave and he eventually earned his freedom.
Nobody I know would be offended if people celebrated that event by dressing up as a white shepherd who was abducted.
I think that would be pretty awesome.
So slavery for blacks is a part of history - it is a part of history that we should celebrate and keep in our traditions because to forget it is to forget two important things:
1: We often do horrible things to one another.
2: It is possible to change.
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Bloody well said.
You missed out one item, though:
3. Don't expect intelligent arguments from worthless self-publicists.
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I'm mostly Irish. My people were disposable. (Aren't they still?)
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