I should be in a position to say that this is shocking, but it really isn't. perhaps there is legitimacy to the claim that racism is invoked too often in disagreement... maybe there isn't.
But the point remains that some views and ideologies are racist, and seeing as these things are racist, the best word to describe them is probably... yes, you guessed it, racist.
Now, it being a vibrant multiracial democracy and all, I shouldn't really have to explain why the term 'paki' is racist. Like most other people, I've met plenty of people with at least some Pakistani background who use the term, seeking to reclaim it. This is at their discretion, because they are the people to whom the term is applied. If they decide that they have nothing to lose by applying the term to themselves, that is their choice. It is also their choice to decide otherwise.
Using the term is certainly not within the discretion of white people who wish to retain any kind of appearance of honour, integrity, and non-prejudice. The simple fact is that it's not up to people of one ethnic background to decide what to call people of another. Further to this fact is the secondary; it's a particularly poor idea to go ahead and do this when the term began as a tool of violent racist attacks.
Fellow white people, how would you feel against a similar history?
As for the Mail, as ever on this particular topic, I am saddened, but not surprised.
Monday, January 12, 2009
76% of mail readers deny that using the term 'our paki friend' is racist
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I would say that 76% of the population have their heads rammed deeply up their arses, if they think Paki isn't a racist term.
I'm a Welsh person I know what it's like to be at the end of English jokes or insults, same as my mother who was Irish, she also got annoyed when the English decided to tell Paddy jokes, we have to live with it.
Paki is not an insult when I was in German it's a term of endearment but of course we are still at the dregs of new Labours PC world. a few weeks ago a Labour twit tried to tell people New Labour did not try to ban the word Black, oh yea then chalk board was a what, IC1 IC2 was deemed better then saying black person.
The fact is if you spit out a name any name of any race with hate it sounds what it is hate, if I was to say yes sir that person was black or if I was to say that person was dark Colour thats not insulting the insult comes when you spit out the vile.
So what do I say to my Kids that say Dad I'm off to the Paki shop, do I scream at them do not use that word, because it's written over the shop.
I think you need to know what is right and what is wrong and it's the way in which the word is used.
Do we ban this word then ban Scot Taffy paddy sheep shagger.
I'm Welsh and have this joke rammed down my throat for years, if you live in Wales then your a sheep shagger is that insulting you bet your bloody ass, who uses these words yes the English.
Well said Robert. Some idiots in the media are acting as if people don't slag each other off in jocular fashion every single minute of every single day. Who has been to school and not made some ridiculous comment about one of their friends that was taken in jest?
This whole situation is a disgrace. This video should never have come to light in the first place and Prince Harry is not a racist. If the biggest online community of Pakistanis is called 'paki.com' then I see no reason why this term can't be used by the rest of us.
I would also describe 'Paddy' as racist. I once lived with a Catholic from Northern Ireland who found it deeply offensive, and connected it with the history of paramilitarism...
LFAT, "This video should never have come to light in the first place "
Why? The Royal family are showered with unspeakable amounts of public money (yet your lot think benefits are wastage). I think that their acceptance of such a high level of privilege at the discretion of the citizenry deserves a little transparency in return.
In other words, we have a right to see what we're getting for our money.
Why do we think, incidentally, that Hazzer Wales thought it necessary to even consider the racial background of the 'friend' he has subjected to public humiliation?
"This whole situation is a disgrace. This video should never have come to light in the first place and Prince Harry is not a racist."
Know him personally, do you? Even if you do know him, do you really know what's inside his head? Well do you?
I don't know if he was being deliberately racist to his 'friend' but he was being patronising at the very least. But it's just typical ignorant behaviour, which a lot of our population, certainly not just royals or toffs, are guilty of. One or two examples above methinks.
Well lets see the leader of the Labour party.
British Jobs for British people, to me thats just as bloody racist.
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