Top Tory axed over Army race rowA Tory MP has been forced to quit his frontbench role after making comments on race in the Army which party leader David Cameron called "unacceptable
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So, this is totally off topic, but you got recced in letterbomb's journal, which is really awesome, since it's pretty much THE fandom rec journal. So YAY YOU. I just thought you should know. Um, sorry we haven't talked for a while. It's been tech week, so I've been getting home at 10:30 or 11:00 each night, and sometimes getting up early to do homework, so I'm kind of exhausted. I get to sleep in tomorrow, YAY! I hope you're doing well.
I'm glad you agree. I'm glad someone does, anyway.
I was in the Air Training Corps. I was going to join the RAF. Out Cadet Warrant Officers talked to us like that. Our adult Warrant Officers talked like that. To teenagers. If you're joining the Army, or the Navy, or the Air Force, you're going to have people trying to fucking kill you, man. Why worry about someone calling you kiddie names?!
One minute you claim Native American heritage, which doesnt mean jack for someone who is English, and then the next you talk about being Sicilian and not having a problem with people calling you "wop"... Interesting.... If you had to deal with the realities of racism as much as we actual minorities do it would be a different story indeed
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I'm sorry, but I disagree. I've heard those statements made, and the terms - be it 'black', 'ginger', 'fat', 'speccy-faced' are not where the vitriol lies. It's not saying 'You're a bastard because you're ginger' or 'because you're black', it's saying, "You're a lazy fucker/a slow fucker/ a little fucking whiner - who happens to be black/ginger/a bit on the fat side".
I can see why people outside would, possibly, think it's about the racism, but it's not.
And please, don't insult my heritage. My father is Sicilian, my mother was born in England to a mother who is half Canadian, half Lakota. I don't get pious about my heritage, but I am proud of it.
You may be a very intelligent person, but you apparently know nothing about the military and military life and you do not have any clue what it is like to be in the military or the attitudes within it.
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Hope school's not being too much of a pain. Yay! for lay-ins. God, how I need one of those tomorrow. I'm going postcard shopping in the afternoon!
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I'm glad you agree. I'm glad someone does, anyway.
I was in the Air Training Corps. I was going to join the RAF. Out Cadet Warrant Officers talked to us like that. Our adult Warrant Officers talked like that. To teenagers. If you're joining the Army, or the Navy, or the Air Force, you're going to have people trying to fucking kill you, man. Why worry about someone calling you kiddie names?!
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I can see why people outside would, possibly, think it's about the racism, but it's not.
And please, don't insult my heritage. My father is Sicilian, my mother was born in England to a mother who is half Canadian, half Lakota. I don't get pious about my heritage, but I am proud of it.
You may be a very intelligent person, but you apparently know nothing about the military and military life and you do not have any clue what it is like to be in the military or the attitudes within it.
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