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The priceless racism of the Duke of Edinburgh as told by Columbia Univ. head of Iranian Studies |
2019-08-03 |
[Aljazeera] Prince Philip has done the world an extraordinary service by exposing the racist hypocrisy of "Western civilisation". Skipping down to what Aljazeer's Hamid Dabashi sites as proof: Now let's look at some of these "attempts to lighten the mood": "British women can't cook" "Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed" (during the 1981 recession). "You are a woman, aren't you?" (in Kenya after accepting a small gift from a local woman). "If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed" (to a group of British students during a royal visit to China). "You can't have been here that long, you haven't got pot belly" (to a Briton he met in Hungary). "Aren't most of you descended from pirates?" (to a wealthy islander in the Cayman Islands). "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test" (to a Scottish driving instructor). "It looks as if it was put in by an Indian" (referring to an old-fashioned fuse box in a factory near Edinburgh). "Still throwing spears?" (question put to an Aboriginal Australian during a visit). "There's a lot of your family in tonight" (after looking at the name badge of businessman Atul Patel at a Palace reception for British Indians). "The Philippines must be half-empty as you're all here running the NHS" (on meeting a Filipino nurse at Luton and Dunstable Hospital). |
Posted by:Besoeker |
#4 I wouldn't call him a freeloader. From what I understand he served in the Royal Navy during WWII and was reluctant to leave it when he married Elizabeth. |
Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-08-03 15:47 |
#3 Some of these remarks are funny. Others are true. But his 1981 remark about unemployed fellow Britons during the worst postwar recession to that time was more than clueless. Coming from a lifelong freeloader bankrolled by the people of Britain, his let 'em eat cake remark did a lot to turn his nation from respecting the monarchy to questioning whether it ought to be allowed to exist any longer. He should have been bitch-slapped for that remark. By a couple of Welsh coal miners. |
Posted by: Lex 2019-08-03 12:14 |
#2 And the fuse box in Edinburgh. I can picture it. |
Posted by: Dron66046 2019-08-03 11:53 |
#1 Well, he's dead on about British cuisine (lack thereof) and the Scots... |
Posted by: Raj 2019-08-03 07:02 |