Sailing close to the wind

EarthRod

To turn this back around, I don't think you speak for all the Muslim women in the UK do you?

weaviemx5

Anything good or bad will get their faces in the media and get people talking. It doesn't matter as long as they are headlining. Corbyn, Johnson, Trump and many others excel at this coverage.

However, I don't blame the politicians - I blame the media for headlining the nonsense these people come out with.

Sonic67

And breath...I’ve already said that he’s free to criticise Denmark and their law, that’s what freedom of speech supports.  However, I do have an issue with his language used to ridicule those women wearing the clothing as its got nothing to do with Johnson and his childish/racist choice of language is entirely chosen to get his right leaning support backing him him up, as seen here.

maddy

Stay out of the funniest pic image thread in GC. Full of often numerous sexist memes.

In fact I remember I did at least one in there loosely about burqas.

I see the UK as having a rich source of comedy and laughing at how people look is fine, all part of our culture. At the same time you can still respect them and their culture.

                               
For one person it might be part of their culture. For someone else a joke will be found. So I saw it as humour, you see it as racism.

SteakAndCake

Calling someone a letterbox is racist?

Sonic67

I totally support laughing and making comedy at religion.  No idea including religion should be off the table.  

Boris Johnson is not a comedian.  He's a member of parliament and our Secretary of State.  If Boris wishes to make rude divisive jokes at the expense of a minority that isn't even funny, makes no point, and punches down, then he should resign, and take the first train to Edinburgh and book a Fringe pitch.

SteakAndCake

Boris Johnson defies call to apologise for comparing Muslim women in burkas to 'bank robbers'

Boris Johnson has defied mounting calls for him to apologise for saying Muslim women in burkas look like “bank robbers”.

A source close to the former foreign secretary told Sky News he was unrepentant and that it was "ridiculous" his views were being "attacked".

They said Britain must not "fall into the trap of shutting down the debate on serious issues".

"We have to call it out," the source added. "If we fail to speak up for liberal values then we are simply yielding ground to reactionaries and extremists."

Oh oh.

Conservative MP Nadine Dories responded on Twitter: "Any clothing a woman is forced to wear which hides both her beauty and her bruises should be banned."

She added: "Boris didn't go far enough."

weaviemx5

Nadine Dories is a fud.  Why hide any part of women?   Let's pass a law dictating that no beauty can be hidden.  What a load of ****.   Dories really proposes that the state legislate clothes by reason of beauty.  So does she think we should just cover the ugly ones up?   Give me strength.  How are morons like this even elected?

springtide

Well done, you can laugh at a joke/meme that makes fun out of someone, me too.  The main difference is that Boris Johnson is a supposedly high ranking MP for our ruling Government, not a comedian so his choice of language in a national newspaper article was deliberately chosen to get his supporters all excited and defending him (and give him the attention he craves), as you’re doing.

Sonic67

You really are despite if you are quoting Nadine Dorries.  When you say she didn't think BoJo had gone far enough, did she mean like she did before and suggest they should "go home" if they want to wear stuff like that?

What did Katie Hopkins think of BoJo's comment?