quite a step back from your initial claim chuka fronts the tiggers
That’s not correct. It’s to do with Smith.
The conversation we're currently having does suggest we shouldn't assume everyone in a discussion has the same kind of anorak on. I think both tinge and cuck, taken out of context - as they will be by most people - have a significant chance of being misunderstood. There's little benefit to their continued use so why bother?
in your mind perhaps. That is not how it reads to me.
did you miss that his description is 'principle speaker' I know it's futile but I'm just trying to stop picky yapping.
yes. that is a search for tig AND chuka AND principal AND speaker. it is not a search which will only return results for chuka as the principal tig speaker. in the first picture he may be about to introduce angela smith as the principal speaker.
a minute ago you said something about principal speaker. why the change?
It’s not something I’ve any interest in defending. I’ve not often got a need to call them anything, to be honest.
if you want to end this then you could simply answer this question
anyone who responds to that sort of language.
Nah. She wasn't dogwhistling at all. If anything she was attempting (and failing with amusing hopelessness) to do the opposite.
so you're saying she deliberately sent out a signal. you don't have a notion what you're wittering about. you've been given a link to the original thread where this name was coined, you've been told about how the tinge comment was made, and still you carry on saying that angela smith was deliberately sending out a dog whistle. perhaps now's the time to go back and get yourself up to speed on the tiggers before you say something else which can't be substantiated.
you're unlikely to make a better post than that on this thread
I'll take your word for it. I use words poorly, she uses them professionally, yet it's not language I could conceive of using in a context including someone of mixed race. If her measured, politician, words not intentional just sloppy then sobeit.
And yet someone has, on this actual thread.
The whole thing is barely worth discussing. But please at least go back to the link to the section of the thread where the faux pas was discussed. You’ll see the clip there and everything.
why would I google it rather than ask the people using it? I'm not finding what I'm being told particularly convincing. The detail of who said what, when and where, and what was in their mind is of minor background relevance, I suppose, but only minor. It's still a term that carries clear racial connotations in the circumstances, and i can't see any political or social reason for using it.
The political reason is to take the piss out of them for being totally useless, right from day 1, failing hopelessly on their own haughty, rather disputed terms. The racial connotation is Smith's. tbh I have never before or since heard anyone use the word 'tinge' wrt race, funny or otherwise - yes, she really did say 'funny tinge'. As far as I can tell, it is Smith's very own coinage.
That's a matter of opinion. Telling me that I shouldn't wish to discuss what I see as a racially loaded term doesn't really wash.
