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Politician Frank McAveety was sacked after he was caught by a microphone admiring a "dark and dusky" girl in a committee meeting.
McAveety was asked to tender his resignation by furious Scots Labour leader Iain Gray.
The Glasgow MSP, 47, agreed immediately, sources said, and stepped down as chairman of Holyrood's public petitions committee and also as Labour's sport spokesman.
Married McAveety was heard during a break in a Scottish Parliament meeting on Tuesday.
In an unguarded aside to a clerk he said: "There's a very attractive girl in the second row. Dark and dusky. I'll maybe have to put a wee word out for her. She's very attractivelooking.
Nice, very nice.
The heat's getting to me."
It is understood the girl was on a work placement with the Scottish Greens.
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Damn those pesky Greens!

He was a married man, and she was in the second row "sitting there".. Strumpet!

No doubt this is "old news", but hey, I'm an old guy!

Why on earth should he resign for finding an attractive woman attractive? Ridiculous.

He said she was dusky.

The racialist pervalist.

Quote: sootyj @ June 17 2010, 1:05 PM BST

He said she was dusky.

The racialist pervalist.

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Is dusky offensive? Isn't it just a bit like calling someone pasty? I've never thought of it as a racist term, anyway. Not that I've ever actually referred to anyone as dusky.

I know a black woman who finds 'exotic' a demeaning and marginalising term when refering to black people. She has a point.

And if someone calls you 'pasty' or 'pale' it's not usually a compliment.

Quote: Dolly Dagger @ June 17 2010, 1:40 PM BST

And if someone calls you 'pasty' or 'pale' it's not usually a compliment.

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But not racist, either, which is what I was getting at. I think dusky was actually meant as a compliment in this case too, seeing as how he fancied her. I was just wondering if Dusky is on the official list of racist terms, didn't know if it was or not.

Pale is often coupled with interesting. Pasty is not so good.

I do not see the problem with dusky; not all descriptive terms are perjorative. 'Dusky' is generally considered rather complimentary; if you wnated to be uncomplimentary you would use 'swarthy'.

You coud see 'exotic' as demeaning and marginalising, but only if you are teh sort of person who think there is something wrong with standing out from the crowd.

Quote: Timbo @ June 17 2010, 1:53 PM BST

You coud see 'exotic' as demeaning and marginalising, but only if you are teh sort of person who think there is something wrong with standing out from the crowd.

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Or you're a professional person who doesn't want to be patronised.

Quote: chipolata @ June 17 2010, 2:28 PM BST

Or you're a professional person who doesn't want to be patronised.

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*Pats Chips head* There-there.

Quote: chipolata @ June 17 2010, 2:28 PM BST

Or you're a professional person who doesn't want to be patronised.

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How about if you are a professional dancer?

McAveety was asked to tender his resignation by furious Scots Labour leader Iain Gray.
The Glasgow MSP, 47, agreed immediately ...

He should have refused to resign - got fired - then appealed against it. Perhaps.

Where's Jim Field when you need him?

More crazy political correctness, does his party really want asexual humourless automatons as members! Don't they know that even they got here by way of sex, sex, sex! Er, excuse me moment.

He's a peanut brain. Considering the trouble Gordon Brown got into during the election for inappropiate comments caught on mic, you'd think this guy would have been more careful. No great loss.

No, I think if we carry on sacking every mp for these minor trifles then we will end up being governed by humourless nazis. I would vote for a drinking, leering, fornicating mp over an uptight politically correct dullard any day. These rabidly PC types are piling out of univerities these days, if they get jobs in the arts, fair enough but if it's government in any form then watch out. But here they come.