Racist Sky channel?
 

Sky have just renamed one of their channels to 'Sky Spooky', presumably to show Halloween content.

I'm surprised at this as it was recently reported that this term is a racial slur:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/s...past-lbkjttg6r

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Never heard of 'spooky' being a racial slur . . .

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It has no racist connotations in this country that I've ever been aware of.

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And it wasn't banned by The National Theatre of Scotland either
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/new...ky-not-banned/

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I think you are confusing the term "spook", which was used in the ‘70s as a derogatory term towards African-Americans, with "spooky", which has been used for centuries to describe something scary….

Nothing to see here, move along…

(I was a "spook" in the 70s/80s, but not in that way… ;))

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What else do you expect from Richard?

Im NOT surprised seeing EVERYTHING now that was INNOCENT is not deemd "Racist" its disgusting!!

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Complete and utter garbage.

Its time these [and other] idiots stopping abusing the word.

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I’m not surprised, seeing as it’s a UK channel on a UK service.

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The name's Bond, Premium Bond.:shocked:

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We all need to get over the subject of racism. How much longer? As martin lewis wife said, today it's racism against whites

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We can “get over the subject of racism” the day it goes away.

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I thought from the thread title, this was going to be about the BET channel.

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They should rename all Sky channels:-
SKYCrap1,
SKYCrap2
SKYCrap3 etc

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Basildon, actually… :D