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Anton Du Beke
Should he go? Yes or no?
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sara3
That's exactly what I thought! Snowflake? Chalky? Whitey???
Perhaps you might hear terms like that old videos of 'Mind Your Language' or 'Love Thy Neighbour', but they're 30 years old.
Also, the 'n' word hasn't travelled to the UK to be used by young blacks in the same way that some black Americans use it.
Bizarre answer there.
That's exactly what I thought! Snowflake? Chalky? Whitey???
Perhaps you might hear terms like that old videos of 'Mind Your Language' or 'Love Thy Neighbour', but they're 30 years old.
Also, the 'n' word hasn't travelled to the UK to be used by young blacks in the same way that some black Americans use it.
Bizarre answer there.
mdoo98 - some black and Asian people have 'reclaimed' the offensive words like n**ger to use it as a term of affection, but it is only appropriate one to another. If a white person did it, it would be deemed offensive.
This is what culture is all about - and trying to apply logic and rules to an organic and constantly shifting attitudes is pointless.
This is what culture is all about - and trying to apply logic and rules to an organic and constantly shifting attitudes is pointless.
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For white people like me, it might 'just be a word'. But we should bear in mind that anyone who has been subjected to that word as a vicious weapon, used to threaten and abuse them and their families, is going to feel very differently about it.
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Maybe but Fiona Pilkington and her mentally retarded daughter Francecca, must have suffered much worse abuse than a single word thrown at them, but who was there to protect her? There were no specially introduced laws to stop their abuse.
It is also certain that the police would have been round to her house like a shot, if she had been either black or Asian, and had complained that the thugs were using the "P" or "N" words against her and her family.
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Maybe but Fiona Pilkington and her mentally retarded daughter Francecca, must have suffered much worse abuse than a single word thrown at them, but who was there to protect her? There were no specially introduced laws to stop their abuse.
It is also certain that the police would have been round to her house like a shot, if she had been either black or Asian, and had complained that the thugs were using the "P" or "N" words against her and her family.
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The Fiona Pilkington story?
Exactly!
There absolutely should be laws in place to prevent that kind of tragedy, and race relations laws were developed to protect black and Asian families from that kind of abuse.
What the Pilkingtons suffered is exactly the same as what happened to many immigrants in the 60s, 70s and 80s. The Pilkingtons are one story. There were thousands of similar ones which promptedthe governments at the time to act.
Exactly!
There absolutely should be laws in place to prevent that kind of tragedy, and race relations laws were developed to protect black and Asian families from that kind of abuse.
What the Pilkingtons suffered is exactly the same as what happened to many immigrants in the 60s, 70s and 80s. The Pilkingtons are one story. There were thousands of similar ones which promptedthe governments at the time to act.
I'm at a loss as to why the word 'P*ki' is offensive. Surely, it's simply a contraction of the word 'Pakistani' in the same way that 'Brit' is a contraction of word 'British'?
Colloquial English is littered with examples of multi-syllable words that are contracted or truncated for verbal expediency. For example, my best friend is called David, but I almost never call him this. It's Dave. Similarly, another friend of mine is called Darryll (yes, the spelling is correct...) but everyone calls her Daz.
It's why we call Australians, Aussies; people from Manchester, Mancs; romantic comedies, rom-coms; Jennifer Lopez, J-Lo; etc, etc.
The problem with the word 'P*ki' is not the word itself; it is because it has all too often been prefaced or suffixed with an insulting swear word. But it is the insulting swear word that causes the offence, not the truncated description of the assumed ancestral geographical origin of the person in question.
Truncating, foreshortening, or contracting a word can never be insulting in itself unless the person in question is determined to take offence no matter what.
Colloquial English is littered with examples of multi-syllable words that are contracted or truncated for verbal expediency. For example, my best friend is called David, but I almost never call him this. It's Dave. Similarly, another friend of mine is called Darryll (yes, the spelling is correct...) but everyone calls her Daz.
It's why we call Australians, Aussies; people from Manchester, Mancs; romantic comedies, rom-coms; Jennifer Lopez, J-Lo; etc, etc.
The problem with the word 'P*ki' is not the word itself; it is because it has all too often been prefaced or suffixed with an insulting swear word. But it is the insulting swear word that causes the offence, not the truncated description of the assumed ancestral geographical origin of the person in question.
Truncating, foreshortening, or contracting a word can never be insulting in itself unless the person in question is determined to take offence no matter what.
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