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UK Starmer Orders National Grooming Gangs Inquiry After Casey Review Prompts Policy Reversal
If the only outcome of this is that it opens peoples eyes then it will be a massive failure. All of those complicit in the rape of underage girls, be it police, social workers, MPs, Councillors, CPS lawyers (including Starmer) should go to jail, and for a lot longer than a woman who made a hurty worded tweet. It's too wide spread to be just a case of turning a blind eye and there is complicity and corruption here. The speed of which Starmer has u-turned on this suggests the report is going to be extremely damning on Starmer and/or his ilk, and the fact that such a clueless moron like Starmer was so decisive on this after seeing the report suggests it is going to reveal exactly what the likes of Tommy Robinson et all have been saying for over a decade now. -
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Israel’s Strikes Leave Iran Reeling Amid Escalating Conflict
And yet another baseless slur. I challenge he you to find any post from me supporting eradication of anyone regardless of them being Jewish or Zionists. -
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Is "Farang" Derogatory?
Farang is a simple Thai word in the Thai language referring to the Francs (or French) in the 1500's. As with all languages, words change a little or a lot over time. Nowadays, farang means any Caucasian-looking person because a 'white' person apparently can't be Thai. Therefore, the word is often used to describe a white 'foreigner'. A person from Africa would be referrred to as 'farang dam' = black foreigner. While I accept that the word 'farang' is inoffensive in a general conversation, it is never the less derogative more often than not. For example, my wife and I recently went on a trip. The driver kept on giving instructions to my wife such as: "...tell the farang this...". At the border: "...tell the farang that...". At the hotel: " "...tell the farang bla bla...". At the restaurant: "...tell the farang..."... I have a name. I am a person. The driver has my name on the passenger list. The same when my wife, my son and I went to visit the palace in BKK 11 years ago. My then 8-year old son had Thai citizenship, yet some douchebag in uniform bellowed at my son for the: "...farang child to get in the farang line with his farang father!". I'd never seen my wife so upset and angry as she walked up to the douchebag and yelled at the dude in uniform: "Don't call my son farang! My son is THAI!". The place went quiet. My wife then screamed at my son to get back into her line. My son quietly went back to his mother into the Thai line. I stayed in the farang line. I have a few things to say: 1. segregating people based on appearance is racism. Period. We don't need to discuss that. Go, Google it! 2. the lame excuse that foreigners don't pay taxes and therefore must pay more to get into national parks etc is BS because my then wife, son, nor her relatives ever paid taxes. There is no legitimate reason to charge non-Asian-looking people more. This is racism. Period. We don't need to discuss that. Go, Google it! 3. The mere fact that my then wife went berko over our son being referred to as a farang clearly demonstrates that it is, at the very least, in the majority of cases, and for a Thai, an offensive word. 4. Imagine if I referred to every Thai as an Asian in conversation? That wouldn't go down well. Imagine had I told my wife a few weeks ago to tell the bus driver: "Tell the Asian to stop at the next toilet...", or, "Tell the Asian to take my bags to my hotel room". Would that be appropriate? 5. Another often boring excuse cited for using the word 'farang' is because the Thai didn't speak English. I honestly don't know what that has to do with anything. In closing, at the very minimum, the word 'farang' is insulting. As it refers to race, it is logically racist, especially if the Thai is referring to me. I worked for a farang government for 18 years. Had I ever referred to my non-white looking colleagues, visitors or anyone else as a foreigner, Asian or whatever, I would have been dismissed. I challenge Thailand to swiftly move into the 21st century and accept that not everyone is a Thai. I have dual-citizenship, my children have 3, my grandson has 4 citizenships. Stop defending what is a racist term, or, create a neutral word for foreigner that doesn't imply skin-colour or other facial features or ethnicity. As farang refers to a white foreigner, it is extremely racial charged and implies that the receiver can't be Thai. -
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Middle East Cracks Within: Iran’s Supreme Leader Faces Mounting Pressure Amid Crisis
Iran is a different prospect to all those Mickey ‘Mow’ countries. Quality place with big history and great people and was the spot to be in the 70s by all accounts, only to be ruined by a bunch of tyrannical religious headbangers. This article is heartwarming. The place should ideally be sorted from the inside out. Israel giving them a proper spanking is the less than ideal option. All the bluster from them though—we will make Israel, US, UK, France pay with our military might yada yada yada—is total bs. They are as weak as p*ss. It just can’t be protracted… Europe can’t handle another 10M refugees! -
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California in Uproar as Newsom Condemns Trump’s Troop Deployment as ‘Deranged Fantasy’
Tax recipient, that makes sense.
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