Comments on: Don’t Call Me Ginger

By: Chris Walledge

Chris Walledge — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:07:31 +0000

This story reminds me of Not The Nine O’clock News.
The policeman who arrested a man and charged him with “looking at me a bit funny.”
Or the officer in court who said “he was found to be in possession of a brown wooden table – Sorry, Sarge, it was all we had at the station!”

It all sounds like revenge to me.

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:30:50 +0000

I dont want to get into the politics of the race issues of discrimatory laws.

People who dont know me will call me “GINGE” if they think even at a mature age of 30 something they may get a laugh from someone. But people who do know me can if i like them call me GINGE ,GINGER i dont really mind i do consider myslef as a ADULT to have a good sense of humour.As a child i as most redheads grown up with verious abusive comments about my hair colour it has made me a strong character. Just a note from a previous comment posted i do consider at some level abuse about hair colour to be predudice or discrimatory but i do not consider in this day and age to be a differant race therefore not a racist comment………..Where does it all stop?

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:48:46 +0000

Well, I would suggest that laws against abuse of someone’s race would cover ginger hair as it’s a distinct racial characteristic, and if they don’t, they should. Abusing someone for a genetic trait they were born with is odious whether it’s skin colour or hair colour in my book. There is no real moral difference.

It’s only the weight of the past that makes us think of one as being abhorrent and not the other.

That all said, I don’t really think someone should be locked up for just saying something offensive as a throwaway remark…