So boasts a new Christmas Card from British supermarket chain Tescos - replete with a picture of a grumpy Santa tolerating a freckle-faced redhead sitting on his lap. The Daily Mirror have the story here.
Redheaded mum Davina, and her three ginger tots.Tesco has been blasted for selling a Christmas card which pokes fun at ginger kids. The card has left the mother of three red-headed children fuming after she spotted it while shopping.The redhead mother, Davina Phillips, might never have seen anything making fun of ginger kids before, but I certainly have. Remember this ad, with a happy ginger family and the slogan 'There are some things in life you can't choose?'
"I've shown it to a lot of friends and they're disgusted by it. I just don't find it funny at all.""I have never seen anything in my life promoting making fun out of people with ginger hair. Maybe I am just being naive but they shouldn't be able to make fun of ginger children like that."
I find it deeply disturbing that Britain's sinking deeper and deeper into a sort of 'politically correct' fascism, in which you can't say anything remotely negative about somebody's race, sexuality, disability or religion - yet it remains 'open season' on redheads.
The inimitable Mycroft emailed me today with a quote from urbane American Reginald D. Hunter, who announced on Have I Got News For You that the Brits couldn't even get racism right:
"You try, of course - but you just don't get it right... Take Ginger people. They aren't even a race and you give the guys hell..."
He's absolutely right, of course. Prejudice against redheads seems to remain a uniquely British - and uniquely stupid - phenomenon.
4 comments:
I hate Tesco and Asda full stop. I tweeted the other day 'Dear ASDA Self Service, my item IS in the bagging area. If I was trying to steal it do you think I would have scanned it in the first place?'
They suck. The world is changing, were not treated like people anymore.
Wow, look how beautiful those ginger-haired children are! I love their hair color. See why we fought the Brits? Who wants to be part of a country that doesn't appreciate red hair?
Seriously, what a mean card. I've never heard redheaded people made fun of like that. Most people here seem to like red hair to varying degrees. I think it's charming.
south park, a popular american tv show dedicated a full episode to ridiculing gingers, in ireland here we do it all the time. didnt even know it was big in the uk. i know aussies and canadians who say ripping it out of gingers is pretty common too.
The woman should not be listened to, she is a ginger whiner who has lost her temper - just for a change!!!! Ginger people are ugly, it's a fact, and if i was Santa i would not want a ginger kid on my knee because he might kick off into a tantrum, they can't help themselves! No seriously, why are we even talking about this?
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