Brits fight the enemy within: Redheads
posted at 6:52 pm on June 2, 2007 by Allahpundit
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I myself am personally acquainted with four “gingers,” all of them women, two of them related by blood, none of them in fact gay. (Errrr…)
Still, it’s good to see someone taking the red menace seriously.
A family are being forced out of their home by a gang of thugs because of their red hair.
Kevin and Barbara Chapman say they and their four young children have already moved twice to avoid the taunts but at each address have been subjected to attacks.
Their windows have been smashed, the walls daubed with graffiti and their children physically assaulted in the street by other youths…
The children have changed schools three times in the last two years. “Every time we make new friends we end up getting bullied whenever we leave the house,” said Ryelle.
Mrs Chapman, 44, said: “Wherever they go they get called “ginger nut, ginger bastard, ginger c***”, it’s disgusting.”
Exit question one: To what extent can this be blamed on bad PR? Exit question two: Will America be spared this vicious prejudice? Or is it already too late?
Update: Maybe it’s jealousy.
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I’m sure Peter must be thrilled by this.
amerpundit on June 2, 2007 at 6:59 PM
The Weasley’s are a very beloved family and all of them ginger headed. Okay, so it’s Harry Potter, but still…
Glynn on June 2, 2007 at 7:00 PM
Are you calling me gay?! That would make twice today.
Karol on June 2, 2007 at 7:03 PM
South Park is ahead of this curve as well.
Krydor on June 2, 2007 at 7:05 PM
HEY…what the hell? My name IS Ginger and I am not gay! What gives with this?
dustoffmom on June 2, 2007 at 7:06 PM
I’m not gay (not that there’s anything wrong with that). I love the boys.
Karol on June 2, 2007 at 7:09 PM
Famous redheads
Entelechy on June 2, 2007 at 7:09 PM
Is there ANY human characteristic that is immune from irrational stereotypes and prejudice? This one just boggles the mind!
When I was a kid, I heard all sorts of ethnic jokes. I thought it was understood that the ethnicity was kinda “plug-and-play”, interchangeable, just to make the joke work. It wasn’t until I was in my teens that I began to understand that some people took this stuff seriously, and I was shocked. Yes, I was pretty dumb, but not as stupid as the people who really believed all the bigoted statements. My first reaction to reality was that bigots were just a small handful of nuts! The negative statements (jews being cheap, italians stupid, french cowardly, etc.) were all just a joke. I was completely shocked to find out that people actually killed and were killed over it.
Now there’s a new reason to hate…as if we really needed one.
stonemeister on June 2, 2007 at 7:13 PM
Coming from someone who changed his name from Brian to Marilyn I’d say, your Oscar has gone Wilde.
Entrance Question: What would Ginger Baker say?
Kini on June 2, 2007 at 7:16 PM
The antagonists are misrable jealous bullies and should be delt with. These guys might have something to say about ‘gingerism’. I know at least Harry would!
sonnyspats1 on June 2, 2007 at 7:26 PM
I thought all of them were gay… or maybe I’m just picking up some nuance in the text that isn’t there.
frankj on June 2, 2007 at 7:26 PM
This is lamentable of course. #
Stephen M on June 2, 2007 at 7:27 PM
If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.
Lehosh on June 2, 2007 at 7:37 PM
Pretty famous red-head here….And a Brit too.
shooter on June 2, 2007 at 7:44 PM
Now THAT was funny!
Glynn on June 2, 2007 at 7:48 PM
and
It IS all about you Karol…/s
:0
shooter on June 2, 2007 at 7:48 PM
I dated a redhead and she was so not gay…well…she might be now…
EnochCain on June 2, 2007 at 7:52 PM
Frankly, all the useless and idiotic conflict won’t ever come to an end until everyone finally admits that they’re gay. Come on! Admit it, everyone! You’re gay!
frankj on June 2, 2007 at 7:53 PM
I almost married a redhead, twice! My loss, that’s for sure.
Zorro on June 2, 2007 at 7:55 PM
Was Ginger on Gilligan’s Island gay?
Glynn on June 2, 2007 at 8:01 PM
Until last night when I read this story I had never heard the term Ginger.
I did know twin ginger babes when I was in grammar school and …well never mind, I will keep my fantasies to myself.
abinitioadinfinitum on June 2, 2007 at 8:02 PM
Not exactly, but everyone has AIDS.
/team america world police
Vinnie on June 2, 2007 at 8:05 PM
I am a ginger (as is my mom, brothers, niece and nephew) and I am going to call the GCLU (Ginger Civil Liberties Union) and complain about the oppression/prejudice we “gingers face”.
Just kidding about the GCLU.
Being called a “carrot top” was a fact of life, when I was a kid.
The best way to counter that was to point out that “carrot tops” are, in fact green. Once I did that (and all my other classmates laughed at the other kid) I was good to go until next year.
Unless this family has some sort of “carrot top stalker”…In which case moving will not help
They are making an issue out of nothing… being called a “carrot top” is a fact of life, they better get used to it, and deal with it.
F15Mech on June 2, 2007 at 8:07 PM
They just need to stand up to that bully one time, and She will quit her show early.
abinitioadinfinitum on June 2, 2007 at 8:33 PM
Exactly.
However I am thinking about forming the GCLU, take donations, put them in my freezer and retire.
F15Mech on June 2, 2007 at 8:41 PM
My experience was the opposite. Men wanted to bag the redhead, not make fun.
CrimsonFisted on June 2, 2007 at 9:11 PM
Heh, that South Park was awesome. I’m waiting for the parents to blame the Ginger Kids episode for this.
Bad Candy on June 2, 2007 at 9:32 PM
It’s funny how the libs will always point to Europeans as so sophisticated compared to us Americans. Incidents like this and soccer hooliganism make me realize just how backwards we are. And I like it.
cmay on June 2, 2007 at 9:38 PM
I wouldn’t take as indicative of mainstream culture the things a guy, who likes to be known as Marilyn, has to say.
But “firecrotch”? I’m shocked, shocked I tell ya. He is sooooo, uhhh, shocking. I hope he doesn’t come to my house and ring my doorbell to try and shock me in some way. I might have a heart attack! Idiot.
Dusty on June 2, 2007 at 10:40 PM
Curiousity here. Is this a vestige of some millenium old English v Irish/Scots/Welsh thing here?
Dusty on June 2, 2007 at 10:52 PM
Entelechy..I am SHOCKED you didnt include ME! :)
My first trip to the UK many years ago was a historical sabbatical that took me thru Cornwall and then up thru Wales. I encountered many stares and much comment about my hair. I am only an auburn..not a carrottop..but over there, it makes no difference. If you are “redhead”, you are some a source of derision or comment. Strange indeed for a Southern Scots-Irish who knows LOTS of freckled-faced redheads of all hues. It was an awakening of sorts. Especially when I was “profiled” 4 times before I was allowed to board my flight home because the “Irish” were “rebelling” again.
labwrs on June 2, 2007 at 11:03 PM
I kinda (racistly) thought all Scots and half of the Irish were redheads. Isn’t this a hate crime? That said, redheads rock! Remember how dying her hair red launched Ann Coulter’s career?
Kevin M on June 2, 2007 at 11:05 PM
“FORTY-SEVEN GINGER-HEADED SAILORS”
Now there’s a good ship,
H.M.S. Cock-Robin.
On her home trip,
Up and down she’s bobbin’
Oh the crew’s pretty tough.
The sea is so rough.
They’re all fed up and say
That they’ve had more than enough.
She’s got a father
He’s an able seaman
And they call him Redhead Tom
I wire to say I’ll meet you
And with your friends I’ll treat you
So who do you think I’ve had a message from?
Forty-seven ginger-headed sailors
Coming home across the briney sea
When the anchor’s weighed
And the jouney’s made
Yes they’ll start the party
With a heave-ho, me-hearty
Forty-seven ginger-headed sailors
You can bet you’re going to hear them when they hail us
An old maid down in Devon
Said my idea of heaven
Is forty-seven ginger-headed sailors.
Shy Guy on June 3, 2007 at 1:01 AM
I don’t know if I agree with people being forced out of their homes due to their hair color, but I do think these people should be forced to endure a life of people calling them “Rusty”.
Oh, and this is one of the stupidest f-ing things I’ve ever read:
RightWinged on June 3, 2007 at 1:07 AM
Not that I’m interested in men but red hair does seem to attract the opposite sex.
Politically correct isn’t correct politically, It’s really just an approved (and focused) form of prejudice.
Speakup on June 3, 2007 at 1:21 AM
There are a mind-numbing number or mind-numbingly stupid stories recently.
Any redheads who feel unwelcome in Europe are quite welcome her in California.
Just pretend you’re a Mexican, no papers needed.
Merovign on June 3, 2007 at 4:17 AM
Haha. It was trendy to be ginger for several years, now things are just returning to normal. I learned to fight very early. I suggest those kids start immediately. (But not ask their 100-year old dad for pointers, jeez.)
p.s. I thought the Lohan thing had less to do with color than with inflammation.
Tanya on June 3, 2007 at 10:00 AM
My parents were both redheads, so are my sister, brother, and I. We all got teased (some of it pretty mean-spirited) but not to this extent.
Let me just say this, most of the arsehats who teased me in school are now bald or balding. I still have a (relatively) thick head of coppery red hair, a touch of white at the temples and in my sideburns. In the autumn when all the leaves turning gold and red and I’m dressed in a black turtleneck, jeans, and tweed jacket, I look pretty damned handsome.
No kidding. I have pictures.
Gottafang on June 3, 2007 at 4:28 PM
Sounds like my mother’s family. Exactly like her story, both parents and her older brother and sister are all red. Her parents had a joke that if any kid was born without red hair they’d know a scandal was up.
And she told me the same thing, that kids teased her relentlessly.
But why? I’ve never understood that one. I’ve never had the compulsion to insult someone because their hair is red.
Esthier on June 4, 2007 at 10:37 AM
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