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"Racial insensitivity" accusation in U.K over Romney advisor "Anglo-Saxon" comment

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"Racial insensitivity" accusation in U.K over Romney advisor "Anglo-Saxon" comment

Romney Advisor Says Offensive Thing Right Before Olympics - Yahoo! News

Mitt Romney isn't expected to land in Britain until Wednesday morning, but he'll have plenty to talk about once he gets there. A campaign advisor told the U.K.'s Telegraph Romney has a special bond with Englanders because of "an Anglo-Saxon heritage." Warning their readers the adviser's comments "may prompt accusations of racial insensitivity," the Telegraph doesn't tell you who, exactly, is responsible for the comments. They are credited to an unnamed adviser. Here's the remark in full: “We are part of an Anglo-Saxon heritage, and he feels that the special relationship is special,” the adviser said of Mr Romney, adding: “The White House didn’t fully appreciate the shared history we have”.
probably won't be around for much longer, either. Wednesday should be fun.
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The outrage over this another flagrant example of extreme PC in Britain and the English turning their back on their own heritage.





 
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Graffias said:
Romney Advisor Says Offensive Thing Right Before Olympics - Yahoo! News



The outrage over this another flagrant example of extreme PC in Britain and the English turning their back on their own heritage.





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Partially read the article. The quote supposedly from a Romney "advisor". If the Telegraph printed the comment, then they should have printed the "advisors" name. Or was this made up from whole cloth?
 
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How the frig is this insensitive? Jesus Christ on a pogo stick....this is just getting rediculous.
 
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Fishstyx said:
How the frig is this insensitive? Jesus Christ on a pogo stick....this is just getting rediculous.
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Seriously? Anglo-Saxon is often used synonymously, or in combination with "white". Romney and his campaign have been doing a lot of dog whistling about Obama being somehow "different" or "foreign".
 
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special heritage is special
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LMAO

Would it be Okay if Obama made a statement about his heritage being "special", or is it just okay for whites?

I'm always amazed at how easily people are offended....

Obama doesn't want to pull the race card. That really would be the last desperate act of his presidency if he did.
 
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Graffias said:
Romney Advisor Says Offensive Thing Right Before Olympics - Yahoo! News



The outrage over this another flagrant example of extreme PC in Britain and the English turning their back on their own heritage.





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What outrage? Is anyone else in the UK "outraged" other than Jon Swaine, who himself is not even sure how the comment will be received? I don't see any outrage in the Telegraph article. Care to point it out to me?
 
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Offensive? No. Maybe if the headline had read "offensively stupid" or "needlessly obvious" or "are you freaking kidding me..."
 
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AdamT said:
Seriously? Anglo-Saxon is often used synonymously, or in combination with "white". Romney and his campaign have been doing a lot of dog whistling about Obama being somehow "different" or "foreign".
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As of late, they've abandoned the dog whistle and gone straight for the bullhorn. If a Romney advisor says that Obama isn't "Anglo-Saxon" enough, it's OBVIOUSLY a criticism that Obama isn't white enough, and the people who refuse to see that are generally either racist themselves or totally clueless.
 
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and he feels that the special relationship is special
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Obvious meaningless rhetoric is obvious.
 
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AdamT said:
Seriously? Anglo-Saxon is often used synonymously, or in combination with "white". Romney and his campaign have been doing a lot of dog whistling about Obama being somehow "different" or "foreign".
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LMFAO!!! Scraping the bottom of the barrel now, are ya?

Guess what Anglo-Saxon is also used synonymously with... the culture descended from the Anglos and Saxons... which is the vicinity of England and Northern France... Oddly enough... the very area in reference in the quote!!!

Now, unless you seriously think he's gonna relocate the KKK to the UK when he goes there, you've got to be kidding with this crap...

Can we get back to the real issues, or do you liberals want to do anything you can to keep from talking about the $16T debt, the stagnant 8% unemployment rate, and the extremely high gas prices?

I guess if my candidate didn't have answers for how he was gonna solve them, I would be avoiding talking about these topics, too...
 
Mitt Romney would restore 'Anglo-Saxon' relations between Britain and America

As the Republican presidential challenger accused Barack Obama of appeasing America's enemies in his first foreign policy speech of the US general election campaign, advisers told The Daily Telegraph that he would abandon Mr Obama’s “Left-wing” coolness towards London. In remarks that may prompt accusations of racial insensitivity, one suggested that Mr Romney was better placed to understand the depth of ties between the two countries than Mr Obama, whose father was from Africa. “We are part of an Anglo-Saxon heritage, and he feels that the special relationship is special,” the adviser said of Mr Romney, adding: “The White House didn’t fully appreciate the shared history we have”. Daily Telegraph
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If the unnamed representative speaks for Governor Romney, I have two words in Anglo Saxon to that kind of talk - "f*** off!"
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We may support you in your overseas wars and send troops to die alongside you but we don't need to bring the politics of race and ethnicity into our politics. Apologies for the formatting - our Macs and PCs at work disable the DP format tools.
 
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Infinite Chaos said:
If the unnamed representative speaks for Governor Romney, I have two words in Anglo Saxon to that kind of talk - "f*** off!" We may support you in your overseas wars and send troops to die alongside you but we don't need to bring the politics of race and ethnicity into our politics.
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Only the far right of the Tory party would touch this baffon, and he would only be tolerated, not for who he is, but what he represents... if he won.

Apologies for the formatting - our Macs and PCs at work disable the DP format tools.
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HHAHA, thanks for making my day :)
 
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PeteEU said:
Only the far right of the Tory party would touch this baffon, and he would only be tolerated, not for who he is, but what he represents... if he won.
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I think the un-named advisor mistook Britain for la France where the Front National would gladly talk about boosting Anglo-Saxon heritage even if the French have very little Anglo Saxon blood. I don't think the outer elements of our conservative party would agree the statements - I'm talking about people in the mould of Norman Tebbit / Thatcher etc.
 
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Unnamed anonymous source says something stupid that the Romney Camp disavows it. Had the source been actually NAMED, then I'd probably give some weight to it and a negative in terms of decision on who to have around his campaign. However, with one side saying it didn't happen and the paper saying "yeah it did, but take our word for it", to me it's a non story of he said she said.
 
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Zyphlin said:
Unnamed anonymous source says something stupid that the Romney Camp disavows it. Had the source been actually NAMED, then I'd probably give some weight to it and a negative in terms of decision on who to have around his campaign. However, with one side saying it didn't happen and the paper saying "yeah it did, but take our word for it", to me it's a non story of he said she said.
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Apparently Romney has tried moving on since the advisor spoke - Link
In an NBC News interview, Mr Romney said the US and Britain do enjoy special ties, but added he believed Mr Obama also recognised this. "It goes back to our very beginnings - cultural and historical," he said. "But I also believe the president understands that." "So I don't agree with whoever that adviser might be, but do agree that we have a very common bond between ourselves and Great Britain."
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Well, lets be clear. Barack Obama made a concscious decision as a young man to disavow his "white half" and instead chose to identify with his "black half." This suggests that the President wasn't even willing to identify with the heritage of his own mother, instead going with that of a rebelious Kenyan man who abandoned him. It goes without saying that Barack Obama is severely constrained in his undertanding of majority race in America. Barack Obama is clearly averse to Anglo-Saxon heritage by his own choosing, so why on Earth should we disagree with Mitt Romney?
 
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Fake story....
 
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Glideslope said:
Well, lets be clear. Barack Obama made a concscious decision as a young man to disavow his "white half" and instead chose to identify with his "black half." This suggests that the President wasn't even willing to identify with the heritage of his own mother, instead going with that of a rebelious Kenyan man who abandoned him. It goes without saying that Barack Obama is severely constrained in his undertanding of majority race in America. Barack Obama is clearly averse to Anglo-Saxon heritage by his own choosing, so why on Earth should we disagree with Mitt Romney?
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and yet he proudly declared his Irish heritage.

Obama visits family roots in Ireland | Reuters
 
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AdamT said:
Seriously? Anglo-Saxon is often used synonymously, or in combination with "white". Romney and his campaign have been doing a lot of dog whistling about Obama being somehow "different" or "foreign".
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Anglo-Saxon is cultural as much as it's racial. This isn't a "white power" moment. White people from Sweden, for example, are not Anglo-Saxon by heritage or ancestry (generally). It's a specific regional reference.

Anglo-Saxons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

People should make sure they're not ignorant to history before feigning outrage.
 
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Anglo-Saxon is just a fancy way of saying "British".

but if of course ignores the Normans, Celts, Picts, Romans, Gauls, and other folks who added to the British ethnic heritage.
 
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Thunder said:
Anglo-Saxon is just a fancy way of saying "British".

but if of course ignores the Normans, Celts, Picts, Romans, Gauls, and other folks who added to the British ethnic heritage.
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I refer to my original post. Many people are completely in the dark regarding the true "meaning" of Anglo-Saxon.
 
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tessaesque said:
I refer to my original post. Many people are completely in the dark regarding the true "meaning" of Anglo-Saxon.
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Most likely know the true meaning yet due to utter partisan hackery, they either continue to spout BS or are willingly ignoring it.
 
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If the advisor really did say that and if it really was Romney's intent, of course the intent could only be to suggest that Obama's Black so he doesn't appreciate the shared "anglo-saxon" history our country has with England. It couldn't concievably be possible that it was instead highlighting a point Republicans had been trying to make for 4 years now that Obama has treated our allies worse and with more disdain than our enemies, with the fact that he sent back the Bust of Winston Churchhill that was in the White House for so long or the "ipod of Obama Speechs" for the queen being things Republicans have pointed to before specifically in reference to Obama's treatment to England. No....no no no. He's Republican. We can not objectively view it and acknowledge there could be multiple potential intended messages...we can only say "RACISM RACISM RACISM" and accuse anyone that see's ANYTHING else possible means the person has to be racist or clueless.
 
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Zyphlin said:
Unnamed anonymous source says something stupid that the Romney Camp disavows it. Had the source been actually NAMED, then I'd probably give some weight to it and a negative in terms of decision on who to have around his campaign. However, with one side saying it didn't happen and the paper saying "yeah it did, but take our word for it", to me it's a non story of he said she said.
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Agree completely. Ya know, it wasn't that long ago that the Dems were apoplectic about stories in the Telegraph - from the 30 March 2009 online edition of the Washington Independent (I would post the link but the automatic spam checker would withhold my post for a day or two or three):

Democrats have a long list of grievances with the Telegraph, the most recent examples all traceable to Shipman. In the past year he reported that close allies of Gore were pushing him into the Democratic race to end the Clinton-Obama standoff, that former President Bill Clinton warned that then-presidential candidate Barack Obama would have to "kiss his ass" to get an endorsement and that a source close to the new president worried that the insultingly cheap gift of DVDs he gave to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown meant that Obama was "overwhelmed" by his job. Democrats who worked with those campaigns told TWI that these stories were, respectively, “a total lie,” “just not true,” and “something nobody thinks is true.”
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The always self-serving inconsistency of politicians knows no bounds. :(
 
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