L'Oreal sack trans model for racism

[retroboy]

Munroe is just racist.

[retroboy]

[Stavros]

Congratulations to Munroe Bergdorf for being appointed adviser to the Labour Party's LGBT+ Advisory Group where she will work wth Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities, Dawn Butler.

"Thrilled to announce that I've been asked to be part of an LGBT+ advisory board for The Labour Party - To advise Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities, Dawn Butler MP, on issues affecting the LGBT+ community, to help form and push through fairer and more effective policy change."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-43211136

I am not a Labour voter, but I applaud the party's determination to recruit people from diverse backgrounds and sexual orientation in its preparations for government, whenever, or if ever that might be.

[Ben in LA]

Yup...she’s doing just fine. And looking fine as well.

[slave2u]

Congratulations to Munroe Bergdorf for being appointed adviser to the Labour Party's LGBT+ Advisory Group where she will work wth Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities, Dawn Butler.

"Thrilled to announce that I've been asked to be part of an LGBT+ advisory board for The Labour Party - To advise Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities, Dawn Butler MP, on issues affecting the LGBT+ community, to help form and push through fairer and more effective policy change."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-43211136

I am not a Labour voter, but I applaud the party's determination to recruit people from diverse backgrounds and sexual orientation in its preparations for government, whenever, or if ever that might be.

except that judging by some of her statements - she isn't unlike many of the bigots she opposes.

[Yepyepp]

All jest aside; I make a lot of jest, it's not in snyones immediate Interests to give due consideration to her points. On the flip side, she is quite bang on - remember interventions arent cosy affairs... judging by recent socio-politicsl tangents, a certain laissez-faire approach to the realities of the colonised and subjugated is being normalised ad infinitum. Just because she makes yoi uncomfortable, doesnt make her a liar. We're all part and parcel of a certain legacy, and its pulse is as steady as ever... HA is actually quite an adequate microcosm of the wider world 💯🙊👌

[Akashia]

You're embarrassingly uninformed if you seriously think that The Romans didn't enslave any black people

but weren't the romans enslaved or murdered by the Persian empire? and didn't the Persians enslave any race they took over?

[bruce_willy]

As far as I'm concerned, people can take that word 'racist' and shove it up their ass.

[Stavros]

except that judging by some of her statements - she isn't unlike many of the bigots she opposes.

I don't know that Munroe is a bigot, or if she should be judged by one comment taken out of context, but it does appear that she is being attacked, when attacked, for not being perfect. That she is as human as you or I makes it inevitable that she will make mistakes, but is it not a curious thing that while some people can make multiple mistakes and yet continue in public office, others just get the one chance, and if it happens they are from an ethnic minority, or female, or transgendered one chance is all they will get.

Gary Yonge has written a perceptive article comparing the career of Boris Johnson to any Black woman attempting to emulate his career path, pointing out that whereas Johnson has made numerous sexist and racist comments he has always been 'forgiven' just as he was sacked from The Times for printing lies about the EU and then went to the Telegraph which has never employed a black person of any gender to write their leader column. Asked a few days ago to account for the £40 million plus wasted on the Garden Bridge across the Thames when Mayor of London, he shrugged his shoulders as if it was just not important. Thus

If Johnson were a black woman, he’d have to be totally beyond reproach or he’d long since be finished
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...ge-black-woman

Maybe Munroe should be given a chance to prove she can be an effective voice for the LGVT+ people she is asked to represent.

[slave2u]

I don't know that Munroe is a bigot, or if she should be judged by one comment taken out of context, but it does appear that she is being attacked, when attacked, for not being perfect. That she is as human as you or I makes it inevitable that she will make mistakes, but is it not a curious thing that while some people can make multiple mistakes and yet continue in public office, others just get the one chance, and if it happens they are from an ethnic minority, or female, or transgendered one chance is all they will get.

Gary Yonge has written a perceptive article comparing the career of Boris Johnson to any Black woman attempting to emulate his career path, pointing out that whereas Johnson has made numerous sexist and racist comments he has always been 'forgiven' just as he was sacked from The Times for printing lies about the EU and then went to the Telegraph which has never employed a black person of any gender to write their leader column. Asked a few days ago to account for the £40 million plus wasted on the Garden Bridge across the Thames when Mayor of London, he shrugged his shoulders as if it was just not important. Thus

If Johnson were a black woman, he’d have to be totally beyond reproach or he’d long since be finished
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...ge-black-woman

Maybe Munroe should be given a chance to prove she can be an effective voice for the LGVT+ people she is asked to represent.

i have never understood the arguement that says because person a said something wrong, person b gets a free pass to say something just as wrong. does that mean that person c also gets to say something just as wrong?

some of the attacks on her prove munroe's point.
but equally some have argued that it is a bit odd to criticise hate speech/thought by using hate speech.
not all whites are racist.
equally not all BAME's are blameless when it comes exercising racism of their own. (the unspoken aspect of racism).

that munroe can make her bold statements is a good thing, and long may she continue to do so. however i am not sure such a voice is one that can work allied to an establishment party.
and can someone who seems to not be too keen on certain sections of society really help the lgbt+ community given that a great many of them come from those sections.