22-10-2021, 23:46
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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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22-10-2021, 23:56
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Re: Racist Sky channel?
Never heard of 'spooky' being a racial slur . . .
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22-10-2021, 23:57
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Re: Racist Sky channel?
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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
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It has no racist connotations in this country that I've ever been aware of.
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23-10-2021, 00:51
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Re: Racist Sky channel?
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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23-10-2021, 01:22
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Re: Racist Sky channel?
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Originally Posted by Hugh
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… ) |
What else do you expect from Richard?
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23-10-2021, 02:18
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
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:
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Im NOT surprised seeing EVERYTHING now that was INNOCENT is not deemd "Racist" its disgusting!!
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23-10-2021, 03:00
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Re: Racist Sky channel?
Complete and utter garbage.
Its time these [and other] idiots stopping abusing the word.
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23-10-2021, 07:05
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Re: Racist Sky channel?
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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
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I’m not surprised, seeing as it’s a UK channel on a UK service.
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23-10-2021, 07:56
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Re: Racist Sky channel?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hugh
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… ) |
The name's Bond, Premium Bond. 
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23-10-2021, 10:49
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Re: Racist Sky channel?
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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23-10-2021, 11:08
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Re: Racist Sky channel?
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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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23-10-2021, 11:12
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Re: Racist Sky channel?
I thought from the thread title, this was going to be about the BET channel.
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23-10-2021, 11:32
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Re: Racist Sky channel?
They should rename all Sky channels:-
SKYCrap1,
SKYCrap2
SKYCrap3 etc
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23-10-2021, 12:37
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Re: Racist Sky channel?
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Basildon, actually… 
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