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highwaystar101 on 02 May 2010
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Kantor said:
highwaystar101 said:

How is it crap? It's bang on. The guy is being picked out for his German lineage and asked to leave. It's just plain racist. Yes he can accept it, and yes he can turn it down. But that doesn't change the fact that he's being asked to leave for having foreign lineage.

If I was having a house party for VGChartz members and you turned up, how would you feel if I asked you to leave because I found out you had some German in you? You don't have to leave, but man would you be offended by me. Most people would call my actions racist, most would call it unacceptable.

 

A different example:

You're having this house party. The German doctor comes along. You say to him "Hey, how would you like £50,000 to go to your 4th cousin's party down the street? You can't come back, though. Tell his guests none of them can come either" (It's really the second part that's the disgusting one here).

He may very well say "No, I like this party, no amount of money will make me go to my 4th cousin's house, I don't know or like the guy!"

To which you'd reply "Fine, I don't really like you, but you make the party fun, so you can stay" (obviously, you wouldn't TELL him that you don't like him, though)

a. Offering him money to leave makes your example far more racist than mine, because it's no longer a situation of "can you please leave, we don't want you", now it's a case of "we really don't want you here because you are related to Germans, I'll even pay you to leave".

b. So does the payment somehow justify racism? Does the payment somehow justify picking one person out because his grandparents are form another country? If I try to incite hatred to people with foreign lineage, will I get off scott free if I can say in court "yeah, I incited hatred towards this one group of people, but I also offered to pay them"?

 

Also, you persistently keep calling the doctor German. He's not German, he's British. It's just that he's related to Germans. Think about that for a minute. Is it right to say one British person should be asked to leave and another shouldn't?