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Photo viaOnce I had a dream where my secondary school English teacher was directing a musical in my childhood living room, which was exactly the same as I remember it being, bar the minor detail that it had a swimming pool full of dead dogs in it. Martin Luther King Jr. had a better dream, although to be honest some days it feels like hollowing out the floor of my childhood home and filling it with water and slain hounds would be a far easier dream to realise. Dun-dun-DUUUUN! Racists are everywhere.





One guy who's officially not a racist is John Terry, who was found not guilty of racially abusing Anton Ferdinand late last week, even though the judge accepts that he said the words "fucking black cunt" in Ferdinand's direction. But if Terry had been found guilty, what should we have done with him? How should racists be punished?
Sara: You should send them to schools and educate them. I don’t think we need to go around punishing people.
What if indoctrination had no effect? What if they just bunked off from this "school" and spent all day smoking by the bins?
Tell them to fuck off and don’t let it bother you. Get all the racists together and put them on an island. Alan: Jail would be fine. I mean, for god’s sake, it’s 2012. They should be really feeling it if they get caught throwin’ racist words around. Eshaun: I think they should go to prison. For how long?
It depends on the severity of the crime. They shouldn’t go to prison for just chucking out one bad word. I’m fine with fines. How much of a fine is fine?
Proportional to their income. It should cripple them a little bit. Like, a few thousand pounds is nothing for a footballer to pay, but to someone else who’s got less money, that would really make a dent in their life plans. And I think it should. Clarissa: If it’s an off the cuff remark and they didn’t even realise they said it, it’s less offensive. Are there different levels of racist, is that what you’re saying?
Yeah, if someone says something stupid but doesn’t mean it in a racist way, they should be slapped on the wrist, and told off. Racist on purpose is a lot worse than racist by accident. How would you punish racists?
Yann: Maybe role play. Act it out as if they were the ones being subjected to racist abuse. Like in a staff bonding exercise?
The most important way to make people change is to make them empathise with their victims. Serena: What about, like, a notice in a newspaper with a big picture of ‘em? Maybe a "Racist Shame Board", with people’s names and photos on it. Do you think the current legal system is too lenient, then?
People take matters into their own hands. Look at the woman from the tube. I think it’s getting better – being mixed race I get a bit of both, and I do think it’s improving. Would you go vigilante on someone’s racist ass?
Definitely… depending on how big they are. [Name withheld, happy to have his picture in though. IDK either]: I am a racist, myself. I tell you something, I would never let my daughter marry a black man. If I had a daughter, I wouldn’t want her to, because of genes. I believe in genes. If she married an Indian man, maybe the baby would look the same, it would be OK, but what if it came out and it had the big spiral hair? No. I’m racist, that’s just how I am. If someone was racist against Chinese people, fine. They don’t like me because that is how they are made, if they want to lose their temper and yell at me, they have to do it. Excuse me?
Racism I think is spur of the moment, and we have a lot of racism in the country. It's everywhere. What can you do about it? If the government is mad about it, fine. I ask you a question. What if you were pregnant, and you found out your baby was going to be half monkey, would you abort it? No, no, listen to me… are you into abortion? I'm going to ignore you now because you just equated race with species, which is both morally and scientifically dumb. You are dumb.
You say that because you're a woman. Women nowadays are so desperate to have babies they don’t care if it has a tail or what. You can’t pollute what kind of person you are with adding a type that is not the right type. So, what do you think? TBH, I'm gonna go date the hottest black guy I can find, right now. So fuck you. Previously - What's the Longest You've Been Without Sleep?

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Tell them to fuck off and don’t let it bother you. Get all the racists together and put them on an island. Alan: Jail would be fine. I mean, for god’s sake, it’s 2012. They should be really feeling it if they get caught throwin’ racist words around. Eshaun: I think they should go to prison. For how long?
It depends on the severity of the crime. They shouldn’t go to prison for just chucking out one bad word. I’m fine with fines. How much of a fine is fine?
Proportional to their income. It should cripple them a little bit. Like, a few thousand pounds is nothing for a footballer to pay, but to someone else who’s got less money, that would really make a dent in their life plans. And I think it should. Clarissa: If it’s an off the cuff remark and they didn’t even realise they said it, it’s less offensive. Are there different levels of racist, is that what you’re saying?
Yeah, if someone says something stupid but doesn’t mean it in a racist way, they should be slapped on the wrist, and told off. Racist on purpose is a lot worse than racist by accident. How would you punish racists?
Yann: Maybe role play. Act it out as if they were the ones being subjected to racist abuse. Like in a staff bonding exercise?
The most important way to make people change is to make them empathise with their victims. Serena: What about, like, a notice in a newspaper with a big picture of ‘em? Maybe a "Racist Shame Board", with people’s names and photos on it. Do you think the current legal system is too lenient, then?
People take matters into their own hands. Look at the woman from the tube. I think it’s getting better – being mixed race I get a bit of both, and I do think it’s improving. Would you go vigilante on someone’s racist ass?
Definitely… depending on how big they are. [Name withheld, happy to have his picture in though. IDK either]: I am a racist, myself. I tell you something, I would never let my daughter marry a black man. If I had a daughter, I wouldn’t want her to, because of genes. I believe in genes. If she married an Indian man, maybe the baby would look the same, it would be OK, but what if it came out and it had the big spiral hair? No. I’m racist, that’s just how I am. If someone was racist against Chinese people, fine. They don’t like me because that is how they are made, if they want to lose their temper and yell at me, they have to do it. Excuse me?
Racism I think is spur of the moment, and we have a lot of racism in the country. It's everywhere. What can you do about it? If the government is mad about it, fine. I ask you a question. What if you were pregnant, and you found out your baby was going to be half monkey, would you abort it? No, no, listen to me… are you into abortion? I'm going to ignore you now because you just equated race with species, which is both morally and scientifically dumb. You are dumb.
You say that because you're a woman. Women nowadays are so desperate to have babies they don’t care if it has a tail or what. You can’t pollute what kind of person you are with adding a type that is not the right type. So, what do you think? TBH, I'm gonna go date the hottest black guy I can find, right now. So fuck you. Previously - What's the Longest You've Been Without Sleep?
