Harry's been a naughty boy again

[Biker Biggles]

The media is determined to sex this up with all the "news" outlets pushing it.Yet the Org opinion poll clearly says its all bullox.I wonder what the rest of the Gret British public think of it all?

This is the kinda racism we need!

Originally Posted by missyorkie_chris

No doubt he assumes he has a while to go before he becomes king so can hence get away with more

Got ages yet. His big brother'll have to snuff it without any heirs before he even gets a sniff. And it looks like his granny is going to live for ever anyway!

Originally Posted by Tiger 55

Got ages yet. His big brother'll have to snuff it without any heirs before he even gets a sniff. And it looks like his granny is going to live for ever anyway!

lol aye that's what I meant. So more time to play!

Originally Posted by ArtyLady

All I can say is - do we get offended when we are called Brits, poms, limeys, etc? I certainly dont!

I would imagine that is because "Brit bashing", "pom bashing" or "limey bashing" isn't comparable to "paki bashing".

In this country, men, women and children have died under a hail of blows or cowered in fear while petrol is poured through their letter box and set alight - with cries of "paki" ringing in their ears.

Originally Posted by Thingus

Jeez my friend's a pakistani lad and he calls himself a paki. He's got terms like PE for paki engineering (bit of tape will sort that kinda thing), and Pee Breed, i'm sure you'll guess that one.
The only people who decide it's racist are posh white people and the news of the world.
The news of the world is toilet paper anyway.

I think that any Asian person that would use the term "paki" to reference themselves or other Asians is ignorant of the situation in Britain during the 60s and 70s and might find it useful to ask their parents what being called a "paki" means to them.

It's a term of racial hatred pure and simple.

Originally Posted by ak_uk

It's a term of racial hatred pure and simple.

But like a lot of words today, all respect for meanings have gone flying out the window. Take the word gay for example. Once it meant happy, now its a term for homosexuality. And yet for some reason now people use it as a derogatory term to describe someone or something as being crap. Originally this was because homosexuals were looked down on and became a hatred term but people don't think twice about using it negatively in everyday language. Just the way people are and what the English language has become I'm afraid.

Originally Posted by ak_uk

It's a term of racial hatred pure and simple.

Yeah fair enough. I don't assume anything really but i doubt you are seeing this from their perspective.
My friend is 21 and his brother 32, with a wife and 2 children. They are old enough to know where the term has derived from and what it means. They use the word as much as their own name
In my view i don't see any harm in taming once harmful words.
My mate and his brother are better off for their light-hearted views towards racism and they are one of the few Asian families i know who open their homes to white people, as i would do the same to them.

He's spent too much time on his grandad's knees. What chance has the poor lad got?

I found the link to THIS story at the bottom much more interesting... even though the pictures are just 'representations'.

Originally Posted by missyorkie_chris

However it is because he is the Prince that every single thing he does is blown out of all proportion.

+1

This happened 3 years ago. I watched the video this morning on the news and didnt see anything wrong with it. Yes one can argue that the term is derogatory, but this largely depends on the context and manner in which it is used. It was only light-hearted banter. Im sure they all have nicknames for Harry aswell which refer to his ginger hair or royalty. Does he get offended? probably not. Being in the army must be so depressing - they need to cheer themselves up somehow.

So many people are too uptight on ethnic minorities and are too worried about "what they might think". Im wholly against racism but for goodness sake I wish the media and government would stop kicking up such a fuss everytime an apparently racial incident occurs. They should focus on definitive cases and incidents (of racism), real problems and situations (of racism and whatever else might be happening i.e. the Gaza strip war) rather than wasting time on things like this. Especially when it happened 3 years ago.

Maria