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"Racist" disabled pensioner is banned from using Sainsbury's home delivery service
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A disabled pensioner claims she has been banned from using the Sainsbury’s home delivery service after describing one of their drivers as a ‘coloured gentleman’.
Marian Burke, 73, says she used the term entirely innocently to refer to a ‘lovely’ deliveryman who works for the supermarket.
But she says a manager at Sainsbury’s immediately branded her a racist for saying the word and said her custom was no longer welcome.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2477153/Disabled-pensioner-banned-using-Sainsburys-home-delivery-service-calling-driver-coloured-gentleman.html
It's very wrong for Sainsbury's to punish an old lady for using language that was quite normal and acceptable in her youth. She clearly didn't mean to be offensive to anyone.
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calling him a coloured gentleman is offensive but a black youth chest bumping him and calling him the n word would be brushed off.
I defend her right to be as racist as she likes, I also defend Sains' right to ban her from getting home delivery if they want to.
As long as you aren't using it to denigrate somebody, why can't it be as useful a description as a person's hair colour, or their height, whether they were wearing glasses, whether they were in a wheelchair?
What?
I dont know.... he was black.
Did he look like a bitch!?
Because it irrelevant . He would be wearing his name badge. They all do
And her carer who was with her at the time who is also black say's she wasn't offensive.
It's blatantly obvious to anyone with an ounce of common sense that she didn't call the supermarket to racially slur the delivery driver who she was praising.
Unfortunately she spoke to a complete bumpkin who interpreted a totally innocent descriptive term as a vicious personal attack.
These are the times we live in.
"After a string of mistakes in recent weeks with deliveries arriving without several essentials, she called the shop to inform them of their error." - yeah I bet she was ringing up full of praise indeed
Why not. She was describing him and he was black ffs.
She probably couldn't pronounce it....
Never mind, the old crone will be dead soon.
You should see the problem some people here have picking out the only black person at a dinner and dance ball...."him over there with the jacket and dickie bow on...no, to the left of him...no, the other one.....no, him eating the canape....
^This.
She can barely walk, how can she be racist?
Right, OK. Let me try again.
Bloody PC do gooders trying to ruin our lives with their PC bullshit rahrahrahhhhhh poor old lady.
Do 'they' then? Care to explain exactly what you mean by 'they'? Or is just a commonly used word that can easily be turned around to fit an agenda?
If you read the article, she was complaining about the supermarket, not the delivery driver who has nothing to do with selecting her shopping. She referred to him as "lovely", as her black carer confirmed.