"should know their place"? Black people should "know their place"? Sounds a lot alike.
Al Jazeera English's senior political analyst is under fire for telling a prominent Jewish writer that he "gives Jews a bad name" and should know his place by showing "some Jewish humility."
A SPEECHMAKER at an abortion rally in Dublin said men should 'know their place' in the abortion campaign. During the impassioned speech, the woman said that the campaign is a women's campaign. "I want to address all the men in this audience. All the men who have with their female friends who have come here today to be with us, to support us.... "I love and respect and appreciate the men who do this. But remember your place. This is a women's movement."
Turkey's Prime Minister has called a prominent female journalist a "shameless militant woman" who should "know her place". Recep Tayyip Erdogan lashed out at Amberin Zaman, the Turkish correspondent for The Economist, on Thursday while speaking at an election campaign rally.Remarks she had made while interviewing the opposition leader, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, on television the previous day had been condemned as "insulting to Islam and Muslims" by pro-Government supporters on social media.
A BAGLAN councillor has told the people of Port Talbot they should "know their place" and that junction 41 of the M4 will close despite the campaign. Councillor Paul Greenaway was speaking at the latest Baglan Pact meeting on Tuesday, following an update from chairman of the Stop The Lane Closure Action Group Mike Hutin about the campaign against the trial closure of junction 41.
Britain's Prince Charles was embroiled in a class controversy on Thursday, a day after a note expressing his candid thoughts about people who try to rise above their station in life was made public. The prince made his complaints against modern social views in a letter he wrote by hand in March 2003. The note emerged during an employment tribunal involving a former member of staff, Elaine Day, who had questioned prospects for promotion within the royal household. "What is wrong with people nowadays? Why do they all seem to think they are qualified to do things far above their capabilities?" former employee Day said the prince's household was run in a "hierarchically elitist" manner. "Everyone knows their place and if you forget your place, the system will punish you," she said.