The lady doth protest too much, methinks!essbee wrote:Hmmm........ since when has a name been racist ?
It could be Smith, Jones (sorry might offend the welsh). My two business partners are and Indian and a Russian Jew, I am married to a non white demonstrates there is no racism in my camp. Its such a pity that today people look for what is not there ! But i'll use the name Mary Poppins instead and that will stop those sad people from reading something innocent and twisting it. Is that OK ?
I don't think anyone actually used the term 'rascist' Essbee. It is a term that is bandied about too lightly these days, as you rightly imply. I think it was more the way you connected the name Patel with a lack of hygiene and created the usual reactionary vision of hordes of immigrants descending upon our septic isle. Fact is you didn't use Smith or Jones and it's disingenuous to post that you would have used them in that context - you wouldn't have. Maybe the fictional Clampets or some other allusion to white trash would have been more appropriate though....
The reality is actually more like the Clampets will be renting from the Patels!
You can wriggle and justify yourself all you like but it was just not really necessary, as it undermines the other useful stuff you have posted on this subject by, possibly unintentionally, placing your comment within the context of some other, more sinister political agenda. This was picked up on by TTM. I am fairly ambivalent to politics and especially to single interest politics like 'diversity' and all the other PC stuff but if you can't see that your comment was a little out of place then we'll just have to agree to disagree.
My apologies for this further stray off topic Essbee but I felt it was important that I clarified my comments, given your slightly defensive response. Now, back to the property matters.......