Have we gone completely bloody mad????

[Bobbisox]

http://www.thesun.co....-of-Chinese-pair.html

so next time I am away from home and someone asks me to say" Whay Aye"(which has happened often) or strikes up a rendition of the Blaydon Races
do I report this to the Police? and have them done for blatant racism....too daft for words imo!

[joeluke]

Zebadee

I wouldn't use the word to address chinese people

However I do use the word if I'm asking my Mrs if she wants a takeaway

Pretty big difference there, so you can get off your high horse now

[boxtops]

anyway, we digress from the original story..... which does seem a very unfortunate coincidence - or not.

[Bobbisox]

I did try to get it back on track boxy....but I gave up

[mike11111]

Quite right, Bobbi, there is no racism intended. Abbreviations are ubiquitous in the English language. Who is going to say, "I had a Chinese takeaway last night" when there is a much simpler alternative said with no derogatory inference on the part of the speaker? It's not so very long ago that a popular shade of shoe polish was labelled "N!gger Brown"

[boxtops]

Black dogs had the same name too, Mike - you couldn't shout that out in the street to call your dog home nowadays.

[jackthehat]

That's exactly what I 'do' say, mike.......
And with regards to the remainder of your post, thank goodness we are a lot more considerate as a nation.

[mike11111]

My point is that certain words which are now taboo were commonplace 50 years ago yet in no way reflected racialist intentions on behalf of the speaker.

[jackthehat]

The intention wasn't there because the realisation that there may be offence wasn't there..........now we know better.

Unfortunately, the attempt by Bobbi to justify (or not, it all became very confusing) the antics of Simon Ledger has led us down one blind-alley after another......

[moralman]

Mike: I think you twist things a bit: <Who is going to say, "I had a Chinese takeaway last night">
You say this meaning that it is a lot easier to say 'I had a chinky'. 'Chinky' is two syllables. So is 'Chinese'. And before you say it...no, people might not think you are referring to a Chinese person, if you say 'Chinese'.

[sp1814]

Of course there are terms which were acceptable 50 years ago that are taboo now.

Think about what some kids used to call handicapped people? Yep - try that now and see what reaction you get - and that is a very good thing indeed.

There is no reason to celebrate ignorance.

[boxtops]

It still doesn't explain whether or not this chap has been rightly hauled in for racial intolerance, or not.....

[Bobbisox]

bloody hell, an item of News, and it was News has degenerated into this, while I respect what jth says and most of the other posters too, the aim of my thread is being pulled apart, it was not to cast dispersions on any group , I merely pointed out that a lot of people would use the term when ordering a take away, they would say this to either there partner or whoever they were talking to about getting the meal, not going up to a person and calling them, but now I find hardly anyone uses this term...indeed, must be a Northern thing then, excuse my ignorance!!!

[boxtops]

I'd leave it, bobbi, it's getting a life of its own ;-)