I don’t see anyone getting wound up, it’s just differing opinions. As I said, CC isn’t a kid’s playground, but too many comments of this ilk don’t do the site any favours.
My point was that I’ve no reason to believe that Doreen Lawrence wouldn't choose to have her child back rather than a seat in the House of Lords, no matter how much of a little cunt he was whilst alive.
The vast majority of contributors to this site, if not all, are white and it's likely that we're all prejudiced to varying degrees. I definitely don’t exclude myself from that. In my opinion though, this comment crossed a line. It’s not based on any evidence, just opinion about one person stemming from prejudice alone.
I won’t deny that Eric makes some good points about how the media increasingly portrays white people these days, but conflating the comment about Doreen Lawrence with honour killings is misleading to say the least.
The latter (in my very limited knowledge of the subject) more often than not being perpetrated by brothers, cousins, uncles etc. (rather than mothers) not to improve one’s standing, but as an extremely fucked-up way to address continuing dishonour, as these warped religious fuckwits perceive it, being brought on their families. They're very different issues indeed.