Double standards on racism..

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by ATAG_Dutch

I'd suggest that this thread be immediately locked.

Rules here;

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=1874

On which grounds exactly?

If you can't face this topic, just don't bother. Same goes for the rest of you with smarmy comments: I asked to act with tact and observing forum rules, if you can't handle it, then simply move on.

Originally Posted by bongodriver

I'm affraid you are missing something Stern, happens all over the world not just the UK, so there was no need to go down the 'sub-product of an old fashioned empire racist mentality of the worst kind.' because it's more or less showing your own prejudice againt the British.

well this is what I was shown by a British colleague who found the whole thing incredibly ridiculous, all I wonder is where is the logic in the different standards towards the two forms of racism.

As for my statement, it's probably due to his words (and I quote)

"‘We must take care. There may be another war. The Germans will try again, given another chance. A Kraut is a Kraut is a Kraut. And the only good Kraut is a dead Kraut.
‘A German general said to me at the end of the war, “You won two wars. You won’t win the third. And that’s the economic war.” I hope he’s wrong.’ "

and

"‘I’m no European. Why? Go to Europe and look around. The Germans tried to conquer us. The French betrayed us. The Belgians did very little and the Italians made us our ice cream.
‘Just look at the world now and look at it when we had a bigger say in it. The English are best. Stand up for England!’ "

I don't doubt we have similar situations all over the world, and please just take this as an example, but again I was wondering what's the take of people on this, is it a dangerous trend? I mean, imagine the journalist and the editor sitting and discussing about the interview.. should this sort of message be allowed to be published?

I'm happy to confront it with other countries, but then for instance in Italy you have politicians being blatantly racist and sexually biased, but there's no effective law on it, so they get away with it.