Monday 15 October 2007

The Red Army: Satan's love child? Or is Jaffa nuts misunderstood?


Brother Red. G Minger. Ranga. Ginga. Fanta Pants. Ginger pubes. Red headed
rat rooter. Jaffa dax. Gook. Nigger. All racially orientated words that only
two of which would truly produce cringe worthy responses.

Gingers have been copping a bad wicket of it the last few years. Whilst other minorities have been bask in the warm everloving light of the PC age, gingers have been on the front line of the masses need to kick the the small kid in class. Brother Red has been hit hard because in an age when to talk of skin colour is taboo in anything other that a sterile scientific PC terminology brother red skin has never been whiter. When the PC train left to hand holding town Brother Red was left waiting with his bags at the station enjoying the slurs of those who had lost their verbal punching bag. The irony is the same people who are reluctant to to pick on a Jewish gent or pick on an Asian fellow have been happy to divert their attention to the G-Mings who have become their one stop racial venting stop.

Brother Red doesn't have a history of slavery, Brother Red doesn't have a history of neo-nazi attacks, Brother Red's kind wasn't the victim of genocide but does little Barry Brewster the 'Red Headed Rat Rooter' hurt any less when he is picking on in the playground. In fact Jaffa Pants hurts more, as researchers have found Ranga's cells produce skin and hair pigment that have a dysfunctional MCR1 this dysfunction triggers the release of more of the hormone that stimulates these cells, but this hormone also stimulates a brain receptor related to pain sensitivity. Tagent or no, a point as painfull as a red nut in the midsummers day sun without SPF+89.

The painful trot of the carrot tops has been going since the Middle Ages. Where red hair had been associated with the evils of the land. Red was the colour of the devil and the redheads were said to be conceived during the forbidden period of women's period. The implications of which, are laughable. But have times really changed and opinions become more evolved? Is Barry Brewster more deserving of a slur than Charlie Chan or Abraham Moses? In a world of media saturation and rounded edges brother red has slipped through the cracks. For every furrowed brow at the word 'Chink', or 'Paki', three 'Jaffa Nuts' will get by unnoticed. So should people be stopped from saying these things?

Well, the world of PC saturation has made things a lot more bland for everyone but perhaps constructive commentaries and witty observations should replaced weary 2D stereotypical slurs that have been warn through like a ranga's temper on red cordial. Maybe this is a valuable social commentary or maybe all asian men have small dicks, all black men can't swim, all Indian's smell of curry and Red's are satan's love children.

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