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Indian student sues for £100,000 compensation for hurt feelings after box of
Daily Mail ^ | 5 February 2014 | JILL REILLY

Posted on 02/05/2014 2:31:13 PM PST by moonshinner_09

Indian student sues for £100,000 compensation for hurt feelings after box of crayons contained a pink one labelled ‘skin’ colour

An Indian law student is demanding £100,000 compensation after claiming that his feelings had been hurt by a 'racist' pink children's crayon sold by one of India's largest stationery manufacturers. Chirayu Jain, 19, who is studying at the National Law School of India University said he was shocked when he opened up the box of crayons to discover that the lighter pink crayon had been labelled 'skin'. In the complaint he said: 'On opening the box, I discovered that the 'special skin crayon' was of a shade that did not match my own skin colour.

'This can only be explained by the fact that the 'special skin crayon' which is part of the product line is either defective or labelled misleadingly or both.

'It is both insensitive and inconsiderate to label one particular shade as 'skin colour' in a market where a majority of the consumers have skin tones that are either dark or at least different from the shade described as 'skin' by the company.'

He said he had contacted the maker of the 'Colorama' crayons - Hindustan Pencils Ltd - and had demanded an explanation but said he had not been given one.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: crayon; india; racist
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To: moonshinner_09

Apparently a quick learner .. not yet graduated, and the little maggot is already a boil on society’s ass.


21 posted on 02/05/2014 2:56:37 PM PST by tomkat (coincidentally ridding ourselves of most)
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To: steve86

I hope he does, that gives it the much needed “Bluto Blutarsky” touch


22 posted on 02/05/2014 2:57:37 PM PST by Moose Burger
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To: moonshinner_09
Chirayu Jain, 19, who is studying at the National Law School of India University said he was shocked when he opened up the box of crayons...

I'm shocked that they use Crayons at the National Law School of India University...OK, I lied, I'm not shocked.

I see they have a the professionally offended there too.

23 posted on 02/05/2014 2:59:40 PM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: steve86

Thanks. It was kind of a joke....


24 posted on 02/05/2014 3:00:09 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: moonshinner_09

Guess how many things I see every day now in the US which offend me. Yet I have not sued anyone. E.g. I could sue Lowe’s for offending me with their very prominent kow-towing to illegal aliens in Spanish.


25 posted on 02/05/2014 3:03:32 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: moonshinner_09

Just label the black, peach, pink, brown, red, and yellow crayons as “Skin.


26 posted on 02/05/2014 3:05:29 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: moonshinner_09

They need to have a crayon marked “Indian”.

Problem solved.


27 posted on 02/05/2014 3:26:46 PM PST by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: moonshinner_09

whats a 19 yo college student doing playing with crayons ???


28 posted on 02/05/2014 3:30:27 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Tennessee Nana

Building a resumé.


29 posted on 02/05/2014 3:33:13 PM PST by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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30 posted on 02/05/2014 3:36:19 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: moonshinner_09

And these are the folks the Open Borders/Free Trade crowd wants to bring in to replace American tech and IT workers...


31 posted on 02/05/2014 3:37:04 PM PST by SeminoleCounty (A Theory is not a Fact....It is not called the "Fact of Evolution")
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To: moonshinner_09

http://www.canstockphoto.com/images-photos/indian-married-woman-hands.html

http://www.dreamstime.com/stock-photo-multi-ethnic-pile-hands-image3864050

Palms and fingernail beds seem to be in the pinkish range no matter the ethnicity.


32 posted on 02/05/2014 3:37:58 PM PST by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: moonshinner_09

The guy’s just prejudiced against pink people.


33 posted on 02/05/2014 3:47:48 PM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: moonshinner_09

A new box of crayons to use in law school??


34 posted on 02/05/2014 3:48:10 PM PST by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: Tennessee Nana

I really mean it.

As absurd as the case is, to the law student, if he won the suit, he’s guaranteed to make it big in his future career.


35 posted on 02/05/2014 4:09:41 PM PST by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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To: SeminoleCounty

You’re over-reacting.

He’s a law student. If he could free the most obvious criminal on Earth using his skills in a court of law, he automatically becomes the most in-demand attorney.

Greater the absurdity of a successfully proven claim, greater will be the return to the claimant.


36 posted on 02/05/2014 4:11:54 PM PST by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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To: moonshinner_09

When I was growing up, Crayola called this color “flesh”, but they changed that many moons ago, I think.

My question is why a 19-year-old student is using crayons.


37 posted on 02/05/2014 4:37:14 PM PST by Bigg Red (O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! Ps 8)
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To: moonshinner_09

Fill out a Hurt Feelings Report and report to the chaplain.


38 posted on 02/05/2014 5:35:03 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: moonshinner_09

Maybe he thinks too much in some ways. Maybe he started wondering as to what natural thing his own skin color matches.


39 posted on 02/05/2014 7:02:20 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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