The Honourable Dr Rupa Huq M.P. COULD have won the high ground instead of launchinga peer-level spat
The Honourable Dr Rupa Huq M.P. I.M.O. COULD have won the high ground instead of launching a peer-level spat with the Honourable Angela Smith, MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge while contributing towards the education of the U.K. population (if not the World) by educating rather than attacking. One of those wonderful, subtle, letters written on House of Commons headed paper sent to the "Honourable Angela Smith, MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge" (and released to the press) informing her of her error in the use of the Ebglish language (of course pointing out that the Honourable M.P. for Penistone and Stockbridge could not be presumed to have been intentionally racist) and explaining how the English language should be used when discussing ethnicity, race and origin). A minimum of a dozen page guide including a dictionary, lexicon and taxonomy of the appropriate use of the English language (which I as an old git with a traditional education in English usage would find useful, e.g. a formal definition of "B.A.M.E." and its appropriate usage) would serve as a much more effective put down of the Honourable Angela Smith, MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge than an undignified frontal attach over an error of English usage. I am confident that the Honourable Angela Smith, MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge did not INTEND to be racist, and in British law there is the idea that for a crime to be committed there has to be the act as well as the MENS REA or guilty mind which is the intention to commit the crime!The Honourable Dr Rupa Huq, M.P. is an able analyst and meta-analyst of culture, race and ethnicity (as her books and publications show), and if ANYONE can put together a guide to inclusive and appropriate English it would be her absolutely.The idea of Parliament was that the M.P.s would debate and discuss rather than physically fight each other, hence the two opposing being two sword lengths and a hands-breadth apart so that even the sword tips could not engage. However, to allow such discussion we need an appropriate language to debate in where the meaning of issues are discussed rather than the undignified duelling other language errorsOver to you Doctor Huq M.P. educate and discuss or go to war? As long as we are talking we are not fighting!
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