[Pierre]

I didn't know scousers were a racial group.

Being a scouser myself I'd say no. But they are as much a racial group as the Welsh, Scots and Irish. They are all white european.

I personally do not think calling someone from Ireland a thick paddy is racist, in the same way if someone called be a thieving scouser I am not mortally wounded or offended. It may be insulting but it is not racist.

O.k. so he's black, I fail to see how being black is something to be insulted over.

It's not. but people will use your appearance to express their insult. Not just a thick get- but a thick ginger get. Not just a ba$t@rd - but an "ugly" ba$t@rd, or a "big nosed" ba$t@rd, or a Black ba$t@rd.

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But if he had said the "lazy black bast@rd" would that have been racist?


Of course it's racist.

Is it though? is calling someone a thick ginger get. Gingerist ?

or an "ugly" ba$t@rd, Uglyist

or "big nosed" ba$t@rd, noseist.

Why does it have to be racist, can it not be just an insult?

If you give a white person a job over a black person just because of their colour - now that's racism. Beating somebody up because of their colour - that's racisim.

It's a fine line. Just going up to someone in the street and calling them a black B@stard for no reason is obviously not acceptable. - and that too is racism.

But if you are involved in a discussion or argument and say a "throw away" comment/insult with no real malice behind it. Is it worth all this exposure.

I'm not condoning what he did I'm just trying to put it into context.