Nicky Brown

[Nicky Brown @NickyBrownxf]

@SarahLudford By family I mean ancestral family, not their dad.

[Nicky Brown @NickyBrownxf]

@SarahLudford Those are good questions but you must know the answers don’t really change the issue at hand. Even if there is some unreliability with the test, a person whose family have never been to, lived in or procreated in England couldn’t show English ethnicity, could they?

[Nicky Brown @NickyBrownxf]

@SarahLudford And even if we agree that there is reasonable dispute about ‘how’ English you have to be to be a member of the group, we all know someone whose family is all Aboriginal *isn’t* a member of the group. Right?

[Nicky Brown @NickyBrownxf]

@sarrah_bellus He’s rather cool isn’t he.

[Nicky Brown @NickyBrownxf]

@treesey And so what if they did? Sex is a real thing.

[Nicky Brown @NickyBrownxf]

@treesey How is anyone going to demonstrate that they did or didn’t ‘imply’ someone’s sense of identity might not reflect a realistic understanding of sex?

[Nicky Brown @NickyBrownxf]

@grossnegligince @Capt_Brexiteer @Bushra1Shaikh It is, but mixed is still ethnically English as long as we’re not being silly about it (my great-grandad’s dog was born within a mile of Battersea).

[Nicky Brown @NickyBrownxf]

@KayFSheldon @valhumphreys51 There are reasons more women are requesting them. What are those reasons?

[Nicky Brown @NickyBrownxf]

@johnjlindsley Of course. But then it stands to reason that people who don’t have thst ancestry aren’t ethnically English. You are.

[Nicky Brown @NickyBrownxf]

@SarahLudford But when people who are not from Mexico start celebrating the Day of the Dead and everyone starts calling it cultural appropriation, they are recognising that you can’t just hop on a whole culture and call it yours. It’s not.

[Nicky Brown @NickyBrownxf]

@SarahLudford …family buried there. You can’t participate in a civic ritual and know your ancestors built that ritual. Cultural memory matters. It doesn’t mean other people don’t matter.

[Nicky Brown @NickyBrownxf]

@tomhfh I definitely don’t think they’re curing mental illness.

[Nicky Brown @NickyBrownxf]

@Capt_Brexiteer @Bushra1Shaikh Surely you can if your family on one side is English.

[Nicky Brown @NickyBrownxf]

@Bushra1Shaikh Of course that’s not true. But you can only be ethnically English if you have English ethnicity.

[Nicky Brown @NickyBrownxf]

@CarterRoutes Well he didn’t say it was a conspiracy, did he?

[Nicky Brown @NickyBrownxf]

@ExInspectorBDS @DrMatthewSweet Of course he wasn’t so upset about basic rules. He had been suspended for verbal abuse. His family had found cannabis on him. He had just split up from a girlfriend or boyfriend. All reported in the news.

[Nicky Brown @NickyBrownxf]

@DrMatthewSweet And yet if you read the whole story, he had just experienced the end of a romantic relationship, he was found with cannabis in his bag the night before and he had been suspended for verbal abuse.

[Nicky Brown @NickyBrownxf]

@SarahLudford And the sleight of hand is the same as well. If you mean cultural identification, have a box for that. If you mean ethnicity, it’s not just cultural identification.

[Nicky Brown @NickyBrownxf]

@SarahLudford It’s really not that different. It’s the same as having male women. What we would be saying is that there are people who can identify into an ethnic group.