Even an English accent counts as ‘privilege’,
according to the NHS
woke brigade
Telegraph [UK],
by
Ewan Somerville
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
9/12/2021 9:28:59 AM
Speaking with a “cottage cream-thick English accent” is an example of privilege, NHS leaders have been told in seminars on racial justice. NHS executives and medics have attended a series of online sessions discussing “whiteness” and “systemic” racism in the health service, as part of diversity training. The Telegraph has obtained copies of the internal talks, organised by NHS England's inclusivity chief and attended by hundreds of staff. Various professors and activists were invited along with NHS diversity chiefs to speak about "dismantling" racism within the health service and “historical myths and monsters” around race. Each speaker stated their pronouns
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Cindiana 9/12/2021 10:02:49 AM (No. 911879)
Do electricity and air-conditioning also reek of privilege, thus being racist?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 9/12/2021 10:07:45 AM (No. 911886)
Just make every third word a swear word or a racial slur against whitey, and your good to go.
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Whenever I hear someone say the word "racism": I immediately realize that I am listening to a low grade, low IQ, thin skinned jacka$$. I can then safely ignore anything else he or she has to say
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Inclusivity Chief. A position referred to as 'Head of Diversity' in America, usually filled by the company's laziest, most worthless non-white. Most HR types are bottom feeders to begin with, but you really have to be a standout at the bottom of the pool to sink to this position.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Highlander 9/12/2021 10:36:21 AM (No. 911920)
Speaking correct English will soon be white privilege anyway! Sho ‘nuff!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
MrDeplorable 9/12/2021 10:59:36 AM (No. 911936)
I saw a T-shirt last week with the letters FU#K#RT on it and I’ve been trying to figure out what those letters mean. I think they have something to do with SO#IAL JUSTI#E.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Rather Read 9/12/2021 11:31:48 AM (No. 911981)
So does my southern accent take away from my white privilege? Southerners are just dumb yokels according to the MSM don't you know.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
sw penn 9/12/2021 11:44:12 AM (No. 911986)
The only time I "check my privilege"
is when I'm making sure it is
right where I left it...
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 9/12/2021 11:47:54 AM (No. 911988)
Just how soon will speaking English be classified as racist and being heterosexual a hate crime?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
udanja99 9/12/2021 12:14:18 PM (No. 912014)
Perhaps the NIH can teach their entire work force to speak Ebonics.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
red1066 9/12/2021 12:24:23 PM (No. 912029)
I guess the movie My Fair Lady won't be on the woke list of movies to watch.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bad-hair 9/12/2021 1:20:06 PM (No. 912084)
A German accent on the other hand does not ?
Whatever happened to the Arian Master Race ?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
earlybird 9/12/2021 1:37:46 PM (No. 912103)
Here you go…
https://accentbiasbritain.org/accents-in-britain/
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
earlybird 9/12/2021 1:41:24 PM (No. 912107)
I have never heard that “cottage cream” description (and does the writer mean “clotted cream” or “Devonshire cream”?), but do know that Brits are terribly snobby about their various “accents” and dialects. Someone I knew (a Brit) could tell where a speaker was from - what city or region. Used to watch BBC television and say “Liverpool”, etc., when an anchor would speak. He always thought it amusing that Americans thought Michael Caine spoke upper class English when what he really spoke was lower class. The broader the “accent”, the lower the class. RP (received pronunciatiion) is the most posh. Highest level. The “Queen’s English”.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Omen55 9/12/2021 2:38:29 PM (No. 912156)
Everyone should just speak like Sean Connery🙌
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
bad-hair 9/12/2021 2:42:14 PM (No. 912158)
LOL #14
I was even fonder of those who thought Billy Connelly had an English accent. And they couldn't understand a word he said.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Hazymac 9/12/2021 2:47:06 PM (No. 912165)
Long ago it used to be the other way around. Dorothy Parker, irritated after hearing an American actor talk about his "schedule" which he pronounced as "shed-jool," told him that he was "full of skit."
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
cor-vet 9/12/2021 2:51:17 PM (No. 912168)
Whites won't be allowed to speak getto trash talk (ebonics) because that wold be cultural appropriation.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
paral04 9/12/2021 3:50:49 PM (No. 912216)
Huh? I have heard Black and Asian Brits who speak beautiful English, how does this happen?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Hazymac 9/12/2021 4:13:21 PM (No. 912242)
For reasons unknown I have always been an impressionist, and one of my favorite voices, spoken and sung, is John Lennon. At the old Cypress Creek Country Club in 1986 Orlando--sadly, ever acre is high price residence(s) now, in sight of I-4--I met a group of four Liverpudlians on #1 tee, and hung around to have a beer with them after their round was over. Capital guys. They couldn't believe my impression of John. (I'm from Tennessee, care of Florida now.) All that and a +4 handicap to boot for me. Well, Britons invented the game of golf. I always appreciated that. And they gave us the British Invasion (Beatles, Rolling Stones, the Who, the Kinks) which was hard to top, unless you're from, say, Detroit, and remember Motown.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 9/12/2021 4:30:09 PM (No. 912263)
England is dead.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Ozwestie 9/12/2021 5:29:12 PM (No. 912294)
I’m wondering what the heck “cottage cream” accent really means. I’m thinking that maybe he means clotted cream, it would certainly make more sense.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
kono 9/12/2021 6:49:45 PM (No. 912362)
Literacy is a privilege (a hard-earned one) and an advantage. Does that mean Wokesters will condemn education, itself, as racist, too?
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