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Originally Posted by Pierre
but would anyone be making such a fuss if it was any of these variations?:
The lazy paddy git
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Yes
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Is callng a scouser "a thieving scouser" racist or just insulting?
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I didn't know scousers were a racial group.
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Whenever someone makes a derogatory remark about another they will pick on the most obvious thing about that person. In this case his colour.
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O.k. so he's black, I fail to see how being black is something to be insulted over.
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I think it is the word "Nigger" that is distastful and insulting, but unfortunately Ron comes from a generation were the use of that word was more prevelant.
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That's hardly an excuse, he's old enough to know better.
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But if he had said the "lazy black bast@rd" would that have been racist?
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Of course it's racist.
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What I am trying to say is I don't think we cantar him with the same brush as combat 18, I don't think he is a maliceous racist he just couldn't express himself in a more PC manner.
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I'd at least agree with the first part of that, and as for the older generation using the term 'nigger', I've never noticed that, in my experience they tend to err towards different phrases, a bit like the ones Warren Mitchell would use.