Comments on: Watch your language! http://nadinetouzet.com/blog/2009/02/07/watch-your-language/ keeping it up in the translation/interpretation sphere Wed, 13 May 2009 04:04:55 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: soultravelers3 http://nadinetouzet.com/blog/2009/02/07/watch-your-language/comment-page-1/#comment-2823 soultravelers3 Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:05:40 +0000 http://nadinetouzet.com/blog/?p=944#comment-2823 I so agree! Mind blowing that she refuses to give a profuse apology at the very least. I don't see how anyone could support or justify this slur. I read this in a BBC article and it speaks for me: "Use of the term 'golliwog' is completely unacceptable. The fact that Carol Thatcher doesn't know the word is offensive is worrying. Whether it is said off air or not doesn't really matter." It reminds me of the far right in America, who call Obama "the magic negro" or major papers in the southern U.S. that did not have his winning the election in their headlines or even on their front page, the day after the election! It is truly hard to believe this kind of attitude is still common in multi-cultural Britain and multi-cultural USA. Sad and a little scary. I so agree! Mind blowing that she refuses to give a profuse apology at the very least. I don’t see how anyone could support or justify this slur.

I read this in a BBC article and it speaks for me:

“Use of the term ‘golliwog’ is completely unacceptable. The fact that Carol Thatcher doesn’t know the word is offensive is worrying. Whether it is said off air or not doesn’t really matter.”

It reminds me of the far right in America, who call Obama “the magic negro” or major papers in the southern U.S. that did not have his winning the election in their headlines or even on their front page, the day after the election!

It is truly hard to believe this kind of attitude is still common in multi-cultural Britain and multi-cultural USA. Sad and a little scary.

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