That is what the post-war generation have managed to raise.
A shop in Surrey is facing racism allegations amid calls to remove an image that appears to show black people working on a tobacco plantation overseen by white men, after a friend of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex saw it while shopping.
Okay. Given that it shows a period in history, that’s quite possible. After all, that is the history of tobacco. So what? It’s the distant past. Get over it.
Misan Harriman, the chairman of London’s Southbank Centre and a photographer who has taken portraits of the Sussexes, said he was speechless when he spotted the image behind the counter in Farrants in Cobham while shopping for his daughters on Tuesday, adding he was lucky they were not in the shop with him.
Not so speechless he couldn’t find the voice to whine like a bleedin’ foghorn about it. So not speechless at all. I mean, if you don’t like it, don’t go in there. Problem solved. Personally, I’d find it a bit odd to have such an image in today’s over sensitive times, but I wouldn’t make a fuss about it, because images from history don’t cause me to have a fit of the vapours. I went to the family of man display in Clervaux a few years back. Now there are some harrowing images in that exhibition if you are of a disposition to get all worked up. But I didn’t, because I’m a mature adult who can look at an image and not throw a wobbly over it.
“This shop in the middle of a Surrey high street thinks it’s normal to have that type of imagery next to where I could go and buy toys for my children.”
In a post on Facebook, he added: “This is in a family store, this imagery is massive triggering and racist. And there is no conceivable reason it should be there!”
He has children? He certainly behaves like one.
In another video posted on social media on Wednesday, Harriman said it was unacceptable that it had not been removed given that people had explained the “generational trauma and damage that is caused from imagery like this.”
“You now know that it’s dangerous,” he added.
Dangerous, FFS! Get over yourself. Of course it’s not dangerous. You don’t like it. I might not like it (actually, I’m indifferent). The difference is that I don’t behave like a massive arse who goes onto Twatter (oh, sorry X) and makes a fuss about nothing.
This guy is dangerous so ideally he should be sectioned and his children taken away from him permanently
People used to compete to hunt the largest stag, catch the heaviest fish, race the fastest horse and so on. In these civilised times people have to hunt the largest cause of offence they can identify and big it up to their chums – because there are not that many now in real life.
Oh the left, the hypocrisy is strong in this one. He visits a specialist smoking shop. So he smokes? In front if his children? Isn’t that child abuse?
Oh but he didn’t take the kiddies into the shop bur if he had, they would be triggered…..
So he left his kiddies roaming free and unsupervised? That’s neglect.
It’s easy, isn’t it, this moral outrage shit.
Or he could have heard about this poster from somewhere and gone in there specifically to be “outraged”
Slightly less stupid than the woman who kicked off in a Northern pub over a photo of coal miners emerging from a pit with blackened faces I suppose.
The shop has caved, with a grovelling apology. So of course, we’ll get more and more of this…
I do wish people wouldn’t keep apologising to these idiots. How about calling them out for their ignorance and stupidity instead? Point out that the picture depicts an actual real life situation, something from reality land. Tell the morons to educate themselves and to STFU until they have done so.
I’ve seen pictures of poor mill workers in Lancashire where my father and grandfather worked as poor mill workers. Should I have been triggered? Asking for future reference.
Just imagine how traumatic it would be if my son or grandsons saw those pictures!
No, they were white and therefore “privileged” to work in a mill.
“This is exhausting and damaging to many people.”
Yes. Yes, it is. Fortunately it’s in the Guardian, so we can all ignore it and get on with our lives.
I wonder if he’s outraged by his fellow ethnics stabbing each other to death every day in London? Or by the behaviour of them in Oxford St yesterday? Doubtful.
Too many professional offense takers nowadays. Looking for things to be outraged about seems to be a full time job for many.