Racist comments.

Not if they are brought up to know those things are wrong to attack.

 

The majority of weans still do it though, a parent can only do so much.

 

Depends what you define racism as. Some people think saying going to the pakis is racist. Or even the word chinky when getting a Chinese. I can't mind the last time but I will have made a racist remark at some point be it in a joke or in the house. I do say I'm going to the pakis if going to the shop and do yous the term chinky when ordering s takeaway. I don't honestly care what colour anyone is though and don't hold prejudice about anyone because of the colour of there skin. Pakis is just short for Pakistani. I'd say the * word depends on the context you use it. If your calling someone a * bar steward then yes your meaning it in a racist term. But saying I'm going to the pakis I think is nothing racist in that. If we had shops abroad and they said we are going to the scots shop would anyone find that offensive ?

 

Take a phone call in the corner shop and tell them you are in the pakis while standing in front of them.

If you wont do that then don't use it.

 

I would use it. I've known the guy who owns the shop for years and had this very discussion with him about it. He said himself it doesn't bother him. As I've said I think it's the context you use it in. Are you offended being called a Scot or a jock ?

 

Pakistani folk find the term '*' offensive

Chinese folk find the term 'chinky' offensive

They're derogatory terms. Whereas 'Scot' isn't.

 

My uncles Chinese and said Chinky's fine. Chinks not.

A Scot I'm fine with. Jock or Scotch I immediately think you're a *.

 

Glad we've established that. Did you ask all 200 million Pakistanis, 1 billion Chinese and 5 million Scots to confirm what you said?

 

Aye.You're boring as * wee man, can read you like a book.

 

I have a mate who's family are from pakistan and he says he doesn't find * offensive at all. But one of my mates who is indian and he says that indians (well him and his family anyways) find * offensive due to the fact that indians and pakistanis hate eachother and to compare them to pakistanis is offensive to them.

 

I'm pretty sure it's deemed offensive or not on what the context is and what the person you are saying it to feels. I could call somone a * and they wouldn't care so it isn't offensive, but I call a french guy a frog/french * etc. then it's deemed as offensive/racist. All about context.

 

Just say yes. It * his head up, he can't prove you didn't ask them all.

 

As has been said its about context and malicious intent. People will say lots of unkind things in the heat of the moment, it doesn't make them inherently racist or bigoted.

 

you know the guy in your corner shop and yet you would still call it the pakis?

I know the guy in my corner shop and if I ever took a phone call in his shop I would say I'm in Abdul's.

Because that's his name.

 

Probably down to the individual what they find offensive. The guy that owns the shop I used to go to found it offensive. I tried to ask him why, using the Scot thing as an example but it made him uncomfortable so didn't get an explanation.

Think the younger generation are less offended by it's use. In the same way younger black guys are more blase with the use of the word '*' whereas the older generation who lived in a different era probably find it far more offensive.

 

Aye depends on the person really. Huns etc. could call me a * all the time and I wouldn't care, only time I took offense was when I was playing fives and a hun * I didn't know called me a * * under his breath not thinking I would hear. I still don't know if I was more offended that the fact he called me a * or just that he was too much of a * bag to say it to me instead of hiding it.:smiley-laughing002:

 

Thank * somebody got that. :smiley-laughing002:

 

aye right ye are,