General Chat

total agree Maggie, I am working class it is no excuse for for ignorance, I know right from wrong. I detest racism.

Madge - it's not just a working class thing.
The 'upper echelons' just use different words - and a variety of 'sniffs' :-D :-D

Working class doesn't equate to ignorance - even the most 'educated' can be as ignorant as a plank of wood! :-D :-D
The nicest, least racist, sexist, misogynistic, accepting people I've ever worked with were the majority of dockers at Portsmouth Dockyard! :-D :-D

I mean, I walked into a pub (alone) on a Friday at 5pm, to be met by 'Pedro' - a huge 6ft + bloke who dressed as a matador some evenings, a (female) Flamenco dancer others.
'Hello Miss D...' he said to me, as I walk in.
'Umm - hello' I replied, 'Do I know you?'
'Yes', he said - 'It's Pete - came up to get my Trades Union leave sorted this afternoon. I leave extra early on a Friday to get my 'tucker' on'! :-D :-D
I looked around - yes, it was full of 'dockies'
I felt very safe that evening :-D

I bless my father, and sometimes wonder how my brother, who was 10½ yrs older than me, managed to have the same parents!

Dad always told me "never judge anyone by race, colour or religion until you get to know them. Then, it is OK to not like them because you don't like what they say or do. You don't have to be friends with anyone you do not like, or who has very different values to you."

My brother never had a good word to say about people of certain religions, race or colour ....... he was as racist in the fullest sense of the word as anyone I've ever known.

He got his comeuppance, in a sense, when his middle daughter married a man of a different religion and converted to that religion. Brother did manage to hold his mouth, attended the marriage service in the Synagogue .......... but it wasn't too long after that he began to open his mouth, with the result that he drove his daughter away.

The fact that he eventually turned out to be right in almost every way about his son-in-law, and that they eventually divorced, doesn't excuse what he said before that to daughter, and to son-in-law's face.

How did my Dad raise me to be open and fail so badly with brother????


and yes, we were working-class people!!!

Sylvia - nature over nurture? :-D

The longer I live, the more I think that nature has the upper hand!