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Of course, I think we all* understand these points. I was just trying to convey the usual reasons/excuses people use.

I personally think the entire concept of immigration is absolutely ridiculous. People should be free to move around wherever they please. Borders are imaginary. How you can tell some people no you can't come and be on this bit of land, we have decided that this is ours, not yours... well it beats me.

*LFGSS being a massive echo chamber and all

Yup, rebutting the populist negative stigma of immigrants in this Brexit age.

Worse still, those of BAME ancestry now calling for immigration to be stopped.

I've encountered quite a few BAME friends who have married a 'local' or who are naturalized citizens who now consider themselves 'local' and spew the same anti immigrants narrative! The mind boggles...

It can do, depending on context. But like most ambiguous phrases, a lot turns on context. Someone at a Trump rally with a MAGA cap on screaming 'send them back' and referring to people of colour, it's racist. Me getting grumpy with Tredz sending me the wrong things in my order again, and telling the clerks to send them back, it's not. In this case it clearly had racist overtones, particularly given other posts, but it's not explicitly racist.

Someone at a Trump rally with a MAGA cap on screaming 'send them back' and referring to people of colour, it's racist. Me getting grumpy with Tredz sending me the wrong things in my order again, and telling the clerks to send them back, it's not.

Holy shit, great point.

Hot tip: if you're trying to err on the left side of political discourse then Louis CK is not your bannerman.

the Home Office is racistt

Everybody who still thinks race is even a thing is a racist, from the National Front to the National Black Police Association

Everybody who still things race is even a thing is a racist, from the National Front to the National Black Police Association

ok boomer

I agree with mashton.

send them back

Of course it can be and is often a code for racism. It's almost always used as a code for something but that just means whatever the perceived "wrong" kind of immigrant is - central and east europeans get loads of shit.
If someone says it directly to me or someone else not white the interpreted racism is that because I'm not white I can't really be english and I don't belong here. That part stings but "extremely offensive" is pushing it.
It's the broad sentiment itself which is offensive - that some people for whatever reason don't belong here - I'd think someone a cunt automatically if they said it but I wouldn't assume they meant it in a racist way.
That was a long winded way of saying #notallbame #butimnotanapologist #justpedantic

Everybody who still things race is even a thing is a racist, from the National Front to the National Black Police Association

ok boomer

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/30/why-im-no-longer-talking-to-white-people-about-race

Sounds like a classic case.

Why you deleted Laurie? What kind of disturbance for the forum has been occurred to deserve deletion?
Can you unlock marcom and see how it goes?

Posting in the weekly photo challenge was enough

https://www.lfgss.com/profiles/150784/

rid. ta.

@Velocio ^^

Whoah, wasn't expecting that on a Sunday afternoon. Don't open that link if you've got children in the room.

@Velocio please nuke this asap Swinson style:
https://www.lfgss.com/comments/15026044/

Banned, deleted, etc

I didn't see it, but this was deleted as part of the banning, deletion, etc.

Hi Sweet VB, can you please unblock and unleash marcom once and for all so that we end up this usual.. thing?

Do you remember in Shinderlist when Liam Neeson say to the supreme nazi concentration camp commander something like "Only Emperors have the power to grant forgiveness"

Now, seriously, I need to do things, like voting the best pic for the only mate which I have left on this forum, the same one that always says to everyone "DO NOT ENGAGE" but then he is probably the only one that really misses me when I'm not around, now it's a few years that your supreme power keeps these two old men apart. Please have mercy on these souls grant some joy in the life of your entire Misc & Meaningless. In the end, I'm pretty much harmless, not much of what I say makes sense anyway, all the kid can have fun of me, I'm alone, I'm getting old and first or later I may die too. So... please.

Marco, I want you on here and I find it sad that you think it necessary to take out aliases to get around your partial ban. I realise that's from the area of the forum you care about the most, but the best advice I can give you is to just be on here as normal, as marcom, and try to contribute in other ways. If you're just absent most of the time and occasionally pop up as an alias to circumvent your ban, I think that makes it less likely that it'll be lifted every time. I like you and I don't want to see you banned from the photography challenge, but what you did to it a while back was out of order, and it's really up to regular contributors there to decide when they want you back there. Until then, the best advice I can give you is just to be patient and, as I said, contribute in other ways. I hope you take this in the spirit in which it is intended.

Spam?

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/341823/

Oh dear.. you must be joking, or I must be dreaming. If that was the real issue then I could have been banned only from the photo competition, or not? And what about 3 years of ban so far for my tremendous out of order crime? Please come back to reality, Oliver and Velocio.

This all is how society, your society, creates the outlaws in the real world and not only. And I’m having an hell lot of patience so far only because this creates an intersection for the story. Dear Velocio.

But now it’s also time for a change.

Why don’t you let the people of this forum decide? With a vote?

Or do you rather prefer delete marcom as well?

Oh, boy. Looking forward to those who oppose Marcom complaining that the full implications of him being readmitted to the photography forum were never properly explained, that nobody would have voted for it if they'd known the full horror and thus it was invalid. Wake me up when the forum is balanced on a knife edge, TNRC holds the balance of power and @middleofnowhere, as their representative, says they'll back @Velocio for £1million worth of chips and tags back.