Burnham signals support for bill to make ‘Black English’ and ‘Asian English’ census options

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• fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Good.

  A bunch of UKippers or whatever they were back then had been pissing their pants about having to tick “British” and insisted that “English” should be added to the census.

  So the sour-faced swivel-eyed gammonic ultra cunts eventually got their way and “English” was added to the census options.

  But since then, the same or similar had been crying about how “brown people aren’t allowed to be English, because English is a race now, and its exclusively a white one”.

  So this act, though small, might help urge enough of the screaming red-faced traitor cunts to an early heart attack, thus leading to the saving of Britain, perhaps Europe and possibly the world.

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  • YragNitram1956@feddit.uk ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “Races” as distinct biological categories do not actually exist in humans; genetics shows more variation within so-called racial groups than between them, meaning humanity is one interconnected, genetically diverse species, Homo sapiens. While there are physical differences such as skin colour, these are superficial, resulting from adaptation to local environments, not deep genetic divisions, and race is understood by scientists as a social construct with real-world social impacts, not a biological reality. I attach a fine soecimin of the English race.

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    • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m beginning to suspect that might the a photo of the OP :P

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  • mlcgdrhu@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    English isn’t an ethnicity? Is Ashkenazi?

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    • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      No. The ethnicity is “white”. No idea about the other one.

      In the census, the race was simply “white British, white Irish, white other” and “black British, black carribean, black african” for example.

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• YragNitram1956@feddit.uk ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  This black man fought with Wellington at Waterloo. Is he not English?

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• YragNitram1956@feddit.uk ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Here is an interesting image. It is of John Blanke who was a prominent Black musician and royal trumpeter in the early 16th-century English courts of Henry VII and Henry VIII. He is one of the earliest documented people of African descent in Tudor England, famously depicted in the 1511 Westminster Tournament Roll. As a court musician, Blanke played at major events, including the funeral of Henry VII and the coronation of Henry VIII.

  He is black but undeniably English.

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• WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Not a Brit, but man I find this stuff fucking stupid. We’re all fucking humans & that’s all that should matter. Someday there’ll be enough cross-breeding that the only relevant category will be “mutt” - too bad it won’t be in my lifetime.

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  • Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Whilst that’s true, this is specifically what a census is for - putting things into groups.

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    • WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah, I know. Humans being what we are, my idealized society is unlikely to ever actually happen. Doesn’t mean I still don’t find it all a bit absurd.

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  • TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The entire point of the census is to collect detailed information about your population though

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• wangaBanga@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They sure are excellent at delivering shit nobody asked for. 🚽

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