Was This Church Of England School Right To Ban Rastafarian Dreadlocks?

[anotheoldgit]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6161817/Rastafarian-boy-12-wins-discrimination-case-dreadlocks-ban.html

Once more it seems that we have been forced to back down from our rules in English dress code, so as to fit in with other cultures.

[AuntLydia]

Its a pity Andy you can't use your effusive replies to answer my two posts that refer to you describing people who just don't agree with the Court's decision on this matter as covert racists and small minded people who can't/don't want change.

I also find your idea of what a Texan is highly amusing and no doubt gleaned from binge watching of Bonanza.

[anotheoldgit]

Andy-Hughes

/// Sitting unruly passengers at the front of a bus because the driver needs to supervise them is a valid reason - sitting Rosa Parkes at the back of the bus because she has black skin, is not. ///

What of this scenario? sitting Rosa Parkes at the front of the bus, because she was committing a disturbance, would this also be classed as discrimination?

[Zacs-Master]

If we’re trying to cover every angle; What if Rosa Parks sat in the middle of the bus and was semi disruptive?

[THECORBYLOON]

She was not commiting a disturbance though was she? Parks was charged with breaking
racial segregation laws in the city.

[jackthehat]

What if Rosa Parks drove the bus?

[Zacs-Master]

Good call, Jack.

[retrocop]

Rosa Parks should think herself lucky. The rear of the bus is statistically the safest place to be. As in passenger aircraft.

[Zacs-Master]

Not if there was to be a black on black stabbing, Retro. Dint think o that did ya?

[retrocop]

No I didn't. I lack an over active imagination. :-(

[Zacs-Master]

Did Rosa Parks have dreadlocks? Anybody?

[-Talbot-]

andy-hughes
I believe that it is ok for one kid to have the haircut and not the other kid - because …



because you believe in discrimination.

[anotheoldgit]

THECORBYLOON

/// She was not commiting a disturbance though was she? Parks was charged with breaking
racial segregation laws in the
city. ///

One could say that she was breaking the law at that time.

[Zacs-Master]

One could, if one were being obtuse rather than one owning up to being wrong.

[andy-hughes]

Auntlydia - // I also find your idea of what a Texan is highly amusing and no doubt gleaned from binge watching of Bonanza. //

It's not my 'image' of what a Texan is, it's a standardised extreme exaggeration to make a point.

I don't think I'd glean an awful lot about Texans from watching Bonanza either - it's set in Nevada, and that's over thirteen hundred miles away!

[andy-hughes]

AOG - // What of this scenario? sitting Rosa Parkes at the front of the bus, because she was committing a disturbance, would this also be classed as discrimination? //

What about this scenario - let's call her Ron and make her twenty-five and white and living in New York.

How far away from the point do you want to go?

[anotheoldgit]

Zacs-Master

How can I be wrong, even CORBYLOON admitted it?

/// Parks was charged with breaking
racial segregation laws in the
city. ///

[andy-hughes]

Talbot - // andy-hughes
I believe that it is ok for one kid to have the haircut and not the other kid - because …



because you believe in discrimination. //

No I don't becase …

how many examples do you need?

[andy-hughes]

AOG - // Zacs-Master

How can I be wrong, even CORBYLOON admitted it?

/// Parks was charged with breaking
racial segregation laws in the
city. ///

My example of Rosa Parkes was to highlight the notion of rules that are based on prejudice - I don't think it's helpful to the debate for you to take an illustrative example and spin it out of all proportion to its relevance to what we are discussing here.

[THECORBYLOON]

ANOTHEOLDGIT, one could say she was breaking the law but one could not say she was commiting a disturbance.

One would be on dodgy ground if one were to defend a clearly discriminatory law which was part of a much wider discriminatory system at that time.

[Zacs-Master]

‘take an illustrative example and spin it out of all proportion to its relevance to what we are discussing’

That’s a standard thought process for AOG, though.