Nothing screams ethnic minority more than middle aged white men
this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2024
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I mean technically its Middle to old age "Wealthy" white people(women fox hunt as well).
That word "Wealthy" sure as hell puts them in a minority. And the cousin fuckers are so inbred, it's hard to argue they are not ethnically unique from other poor white folk.
And just like that I became a racist.
They are highly inbred, so they may well have diverged sufficiently far from the rest of humanity to be classified as a separate species.
Speaking to the FieldsportsChannel podcast, Swales said: “The qualifications of an ethnic group, there are five of them, and we hit everyone straight in the bullseye.”
I'm looking forward to hearing this unpacked in court. Either the law is an ass, or it will be incredibly funny.
If you're looking to define a new 'visible minority that suffers online abuse and real-life violence based upon hatred of an out-group', I'd suggest that cyclists would have a better claim!
Yep, I have been assaulted many times in many ways for being a cyclist.
Get the fuck out of the way, I am driving here.
Disabled people!
Well sound reasonable. Once they gain ethnic minority status. The next Tory gov can ship them to Rwanda?
No
From the dipshittery that brought you "corporations are people","pizza is a vegetable", and "capybaras are fish"
What a complete twist of words. Buncha cunts
“pillock” is a slur
They'll definitely try and have "gammon" classified as an ethnic slur.
Something you are is a protected class something you do never is
Bad time to try that tactic.
I would go beyond that and say they are definitely a mutant subspecies.
I have babysat more mature 3-year-olds who recognize “but I waaaaaannnnaaaa” is not a valid argument.
Only if the foxes can be a protected ethnic minority too
Oh, they genuinely don't know what ethnicity means. That might explain some history.
I'd like to see what exactly their argument is.
Swales said: “The outcome of that from the human rights silk is that as a protected minority group under the Equality Act, we qualify, undoubtedly 10 out of 10.”
The idea that legally they could be considered a protected minority isn't entirely farfetched, since it includes "religion or belief", and IIRC "belief" has been found in the past to include vegans and gender critical feminists.
Although vegans and gender critical feminists have never been allowed to break laws. The closest we see is helmet laws for Sikhs and very very limited knife carry laws for other religions. And those are all based on a religiose requirement well documented within their culture.
It will be interesting to see how these people manage to claim the right to kill foxes is somehow a long held requirement. Mainly because it will make any common activity amongst a group of people impossible to legislate against.
They sound like they're a bit muddled about how the Equality Act actually works though, bless them, based on this other quote from the same article:
"The qualifications of an ethnic group, there are five of them, and we hit everyone straight in the bullseye."
There are another few instances where the guy specifically says "ethnic group", and I even chased up the source to check it wasn't just rubbish reporting, because as you highlight, it's not too farfetched that they might be considered a protected minority group, but that's entirely different than them being considered a minority ethnic group.
Unsurprised that the pro-fox-hunting people have more money than sense. I imagine their lawyers are better versed on the equality act than their spokesman, and are making the beliefs argument rather than the ethnic minority one.
We might have actually found a use for Tommy Robinson and the gammon army