We let the gingers on...
...that's fackin' bad enough!

/Alf Garnett
( Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Sat 2 Jul 2005, 0:38, archived)

Serious qeustion.
In three years on this board I have met one person from sub-continental Asia, and one of mixed race. b3ta is almost 100% white and middle class. Why?
( supermoore: HUNG, Sat 2 Jul 2005, 0:40, archived)

because the internet
is a white mans magic
(Quatermass and teh Shit, Sat 2 Jul 2005, 0:42, archived)

I have no idea....
....why don't you form a focus group and draw up a quota list?

/police recruitment boss
( Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Sat 2 Jul 2005, 0:43, archived)

I'm not being funny,
or having a go at anyone, I'm looking for some genuine suggestions at to why we're turning into a whites only club.
( supermoore: HUNG, Sat 2 Jul 2005, 0:44, archived)

so because no black people have joined
we're a "whites only" club?

How many forums *anywhere* do you know with a black population?
(Quatermass and teh Shit, Sat 2 Jul 2005, 0:45, archived)

www.iamblackandlovinit.com/forum
( NAWS Whats all this then, Sat 2 Jul 2005, 0:49, archived)

*beats head against wall repeatedly*
okay. over the lifetime of b3ta, there have probaly been something like 1000 regular posters on b3ta. this is obviously a complete guess. i have probably met about, at a very rough guess, 5-600 of them. and seen photos of possibly twice as many again. they come from all walks of life - and all parts of the world. in this country, britain, they come from everywhere. i can't think of a major town or city without a b3tan in it.

and of all of those people, only one has been black (well, mixed race, to be literal). and he's one of the most regular posters on here. i don't think that moore is trying to make some sort of PC point here - just pointing out that it's singularly unrepresentative of any sort of modern society. and thinking it's odd. which it is.
( 100% of Gibbon, Sat 2 Jul 2005, 1:15, archived)

Thank
you.

It's an issue about access to technology more than anything.

BAH!
( supermoore: HUNG, Sat 2 Jul 2005, 1:18, archived)

b3ta isn't a parallel of society. It's more like a sub-culture, only a section of it
It's part of the much larger internet, which is far easier to compare to modern society, because of the multiple subcultures found within it.
( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Sat 2 Jul 2005, 1:22, archived)

We realise that, we accept that,
we're just asking why it is. It's not an accusation (I may have used some accusatory language earlier, which I won't edit for the sake of fairness), it's just pondering why this state of afairs exists.
( supermoore: HUNG, Sat 2 Jul 2005, 1:24, archived)

I guess it's just human nature to group together with people similar to your self

( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Sat 2 Jul 2005, 1:27, archived)

this much is true.
but even the little corner of if little england in which i grew up, there were ethnic minorities all nearly all varieties. you get it even in the deepest darkest countryside nowadays.

i'm not suggesting that b3ta is a parallel of society - god help us all if it is - but it is, if you think about it, a peculiar statistic.

as moore said vvdown therevv somewhere, i too couldn't care less. it is just odd.
( 100% of Gibbon, Sat 2 Jul 2005, 1:27, archived)

that sounds like the klan

( Wildheart Baby. Drunken Mess In A Good Way, Sat 2 Jul 2005, 0:47, archived)

Possibly things like....
....the KKK picture competition don't help?
( Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Sat 2 Jul 2005, 0:49, archived)

I reject that,
I'm going to say again I genuinely do not know why it is. I think anyone with a sense of humour would have found that funny. Humour is pretty universal.
( supermoore: HUNG, Sat 2 Jul 2005, 0:51, archived)

I'm sure that...
...a whole weeks worth of close-to-the-mark humour about extreme right wing groups wouldn't at all be intimidating to someone who has almost certainly been on the wrong end of prejudice based on their skin composition.
( Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Sat 2 Jul 2005, 1:06, archived)

Depends on the individual.
I doubt there's anyone here who hasn't been marginalised by at least one thread of humour on b3ta. Some spit the dummy, some stay.
( supermoore: HUNG, Sat 2 Jul 2005, 1:09, archived)

But by the same chalk....
.....if you're going to use the 'calm down dear it's only a talk board' argument doesn't that make all your liberal guilt about b3ta's white middle classness somewhat irrelevent?
( Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Sat 2 Jul 2005, 1:16, archived)

There is no guilt.
It's merely an observation, followed by a question.

A "this is the way it is" followed by "why is it this way?".

That's all.
( supermoore: HUNG, Sat 2 Jul 2005, 1:20, archived)

that reminds me of a time on another forum
when a user asked if there a "Disabled User's account list".

Boy did he get a roasting from some idiot PC drone who wanted them to be refered to as "less able bodied" people and that a list of the wheel chaired users was wrong.
(Quatermass and teh Shit, Sat 2 Jul 2005, 0:45, archived)

fuckin
spacks
( NAWS Whats all this then, Sat 2 Jul 2005, 0:51, archived)

Maybe
you have discovered the truth behind Rob's Nickname of 'The ginger fuhrer'
(Pimms'N'Lemonade thinks you are a twat, prove me wrong., Sat 2 Jul 2005, 0:44, archived)