Gladys Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 39 minutes ago, Grumble said: I want to be in Gladys' gang. Although she's clearly a girl so can't realistically be in charge. She can be the gang's secretary though, and be responsible for getting the fizzy pop. I also have a nifty trick with a couple of bricks! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 Don't worry, Rox, he just wants lashings of ginger beer. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheTeapot Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 For those of you who want to better understand racism (in the US at least) John Oliver's show from this week is once again worth watch. The whole show isn't on youtube so you should torrent it for his short piece on the Trump Virus response, but just the bit about US history is up and you can watch it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uhtred Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 5 hours ago, Shake me up Judy said: It's a bit moth eaten but there's plenty of stretch in it. ...and the leotard? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uhtred Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 3 hours ago, Gladys said: Don't worry, Rox, he just wants lashings of ginger beer. Possibly just lashings Glad. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Non-Believer Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 5 hours ago, Shake me up Judy said: ....but there's plenty of stretch in it. What exactly are you inferring....? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Power Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 The Hardy Commission... http://www.iomtoday.co.im/article.cfm?id=57064&headline=Group's progress on teaching of race issues§ionIs=NEWS&searchyear=2020 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Down Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 27 minutes ago, Max Power said: The Hardy Commission... http://www.iomtoday.co.im/article.cfm?id=57064&headline=Group's progress on teaching of race issues§ionIs=NEWS&searchyear=2020 Yawn... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Max Power Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 (edited) Results of the Island Global Research equality survey. You need to download the document. https://www.islandglobalresearch.com/news No real surprises I don't think? 9% identified as BAME, 88% as white, 2% didn't know. It seems more white people see a problem and support BLM, is this white guilt? Edited September 22, 2020 by Max Power Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Down Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 10 minutes ago, Max Power said: Results of the Island Global Research equality survey. You need to download the document. https://www.islandglobalresearch.com/news No real surprises I don't think? 9% identified as BAME, 88% as white, 2% didn't know. It seems more white people see a problem and support BLM, is this white guilt? Hardly conclusive research is it. just over a thousand people could be bothered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barlow Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 (edited) 23 minutes ago, Max Power said: Results of the Island Global Research equality survey. You need to download the document. https://www.islandglobalresearch.com/news No real surprises I don't think? The trouble with surveys is that they are only representative of people who participate in them. I certainly CBA filling out any forms or whatever. But the people who are bothered will. Incidentally, the thing that kicked off the @Stu Peters thing on the Isle of Man, was him making a post that the BLM marches were sparked off by an incident that happened in USA, thousands of miles away and he was questioning what relevance it had here. It was a reasonable question to ask. I see in a response to a Manx Radio interview about young people spitting at police, a reference was made to a change of attitudes towards the police as a result of what happened in America. :.."policing in America and policing in the Isle of Man is two completely different things, completely different society and the way that we police..." The police on the Isle of Man are getting a hard time on the back of something that happened in USA. Maybe, in line with the IoM's strict policy on Covid-19 the march should have been stopped here, but I suppose it is a case of damned if you do and damned if you don't. Edited September 22, 2020 by Barlow 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josem Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 1 hour ago, Max Power said: Results of the Island Global Research equality survey. You need to download the document. https://www.islandglobalresearch.com/news No real surprises I don't think? 9% identified as BAME, 88% as white, 2% didn't know. It seems more white people see a problem and support BLM, is this white guilt? I think they did a really weird job of communicating the report, so much so that they accidentally buried the most surprising and interesting result: that self-identified Black, Asian, etc., respondents on the Isle of Man broadly identified racism as less of a problem than the white respondents did. 82% of all respondents thought that "a little, some, or a great deal of racism exists" on IOM. Only 60% of "Black, Asian, etc." did. 32% of all respondents thought "our island has already made the changes to give all racial and ethnic groups equal rights" but 50% of Black, Asian, etc., respondents thought that. (For what it's worth, this data is perfectly in line with my anecdotal experience - various local/Manx/white people telling me that the island is terribly racist, and me & migrant friends strongly disagreeing and thinking that the IOM is an incredibly welcoming and loving place to people.) 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Power Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 2 minutes ago, Josem said: I think they did a really weird job of communicating the report, so much so that they accidentally buried the most surprising and interesting result: that self-identified Black, Asian, etc., respondents on the Isle of Man broadly identified racism as less of a problem than the white respondents did. 82% of all respondents thought that "a little, some, or a great deal of racism exists" on IOM. Only 60% of "Black, Asian, etc." did. 32% of all respondents thought "our island has already made the changes to give all racial and ethnic groups equal rights" but 50% of Black, Asian, etc., respondents thought that. (For what it's worth, this data is perfectly in line with my anecdotal experience - various local/Manx/white people telling me that the island is terribly racist, and me & migrant friends strongly disagreeing and thinking that the IOM is an incredibly welcoming and loving place to people.) And that is exactly my experience too! There will always be one or two idiots about but there are laws to deal with them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeliX Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 12 minutes ago, Josem said: what it's worth, this data is perfectly in line with my anecdotal experience - various local/Manx/white people telling me that the island is terribly racist, and me & migrant friends strongly disagreeing and thinking that the IOM is an incredibly welcoming and loving place to people.) But that's not what the data says? It says 60% of non-caucasian respondents said there's racism. I'd hardly call it buried either, it's one of the very first large statistics in the document! Interesting that we had so many responses compared to Jersey. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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