Yes |
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No |
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He's an idiot but he's not racist |
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I dont care |
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Paperboy Posts: 48 Joined: 7 Jan 2009 | |
BANNED Posts: 4378 Joined: 21 Aug 2008 | Well, he said something racist. But that doesn't necessarily make him racist; just a really huge idiot. User was banned for: Microsoft and the World Domination of Gaming&Communication. (Permanent) |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1081 Joined: 11 Sep 2008 | I read about this in my local paper. Obviously they ran out of people to smear so they dug up dirt on one of the people whom we could not give a rats ass about. Just charge him with the usual race crime deal and move on. |
Creator of Unforgotten Realms Posts: 581 Joined: 15 Apr 2008 | Wait... paki is an insult? |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1503 Joined: 29 Jun 2008 | Read about this a while back. The "paki" remark, no, but for the "raghead", it's a racist term. He's just dumb. Not racist. |
Pulitzer Laureate Posts: 884 Joined: 19 Sep 2008 | He's just an idiot, not a racist. Prince Phillip however, he's an idiot and a racist. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2013 Joined: 24 Sep 2008 | The only Harry-related clusterfuck that would be worth a second comment if the guy wasn't a member of the Royal Family is the Nazi costume thing. This one is only slightly more disturbing than the revelation that he drinks and smokes (GASP!) marijuana, which is to say, not at all. |
BANNED Posts: 4378 Joined: 21 Aug 2008 |
Insults are based upon intention. And you might not think it, but when someone calls you that, especially if you aren't Pakistani, then it is even more insulting. User was banned for: Microsoft and the World Domination of Gaming&Communication. (Permanent) |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1330 Joined: 20 Nov 2008 | i hear paki is actually a pretty huge ethnic slur in england. |
BANNED Posts: 4378 Joined: 21 Aug 2008 |
Yep. In America, the term "sand nigger" or "Hadji" is used more often. Although I've heard some of the more cosmopolitan bigots here throw that term around. User was banned for: Microsoft and the World Domination of Gaming&Communication. (Permanent) |
Infamous Scribbler Posts: 515 Joined: 23 Jul 2008 |
Oh my god! He drinks marijuana! Devilspawn! |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2013 Joined: 24 Sep 2008 |
Pot tea, dude. |
Infamous Scribbler Posts: 515 Joined: 23 Jul 2008 |
Oh, those Brits. Always with the tea. |
Creator of Unforgotten Realms Posts: 581 Joined: 15 Apr 2008 |
If someone called me a Paki I would just assume there an idiot, then again I'm not an over sensitive pussy. That be like getting offended if I went to "insert country no one has ever heard of here" and getting offended someone called me an american or yanki. Pretty sure I wouldn't even bother to correct them let alone cry a river about it. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 3785 Joined: 29 Dec 2007 |
That surprised me to, even the guy who got called Paki didn't care. Thats what seems to matter here, it was a nickname and the guy who had the nickname was fine with it. It seems like calling somebody a Aussie, only 30 years ago Aussie wasn't a slur. |
Muckraker Posts: 228 Joined: 6 May 2008 |
I've been reliably told by Indian friends that if you call an Indian person Paki[stani], or vice-versa, it is a huge insult. On topic, I don't think he is, especially considering who his mother was. I'm sure that her influence is stronger than his grandfathers. |
BANNED Posts: 4378 Joined: 21 Aug 2008 |
We all can't be internet tough guys like you. Oh, and please don't beat me up because my world views don't exactly match yours. User was banned for: Microsoft and the World Domination of Gaming&Communication. (Permanent) |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1503 Joined: 29 Jun 2008 |
Sand Nigger? Wow, I've NEVER heard that one before. Where do you live? |
Beat Writer Posts: 134 Joined: 9 Jan 2009 |
Guessing from his SN I'd say Kentucky. It's unfortunately a fairly common term in the southern states of the US. I don't know much about Prince Harry, so I can't really speak to his character. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1503 Joined: 29 Jun 2008 |
Ah. See, I live in San Diego, CA, so I'm kinda in a huge bubble with terms like that. |
Paperboy Posts: 46 Joined: 13 Jan 2009 | If he's racist, he's racist. That's none of my business. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 3607 Joined: 8 Dec 2007 | Is Prince Harry racist? |
King of the Yetis Posts: 2539 Joined: 15 Jul 2008 |
Paki is a racist term now? The term 'sand nigger' (also 'Snow Nigger') is absolutely hilarious because it implies that one day, not far in the future, extra terrestrial will land on earth and a man, perhaps wearing a nascar baseball cap, will stare at the multi-tentacled creature that's traveled millions of miles to talk to us, and call it a 'space nigger'. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2663 Joined: 20 Jul 2008 | Who really cares anyway? Celebrities and higher figures are judged for everything they do and whoever uses some celebrities as role models are mostly idiots. Maybe he is racist or maybe he is just an idiot. Though the Nazi dress up did actually make me chuckle a bit. It's not every day a royalty dresses up as a racist figure. |
Pulitzer Laureate Posts: 969 Joined: 21 Dec 2007 |
OMFG peope in the army swear and use politically incorrect terms? Call the news immediately. Honestly this is ridiculous, I have two friends both of them trained riflemen in the Australian army and the stories I've heard would amaze you. The army is essentially a completely different world, the training process is harsh, they get sworn at like you'd never believe and you expect their day to day language to not feature some swearing and derogatory terms. Sure being raised in the royal family may have been "cushy" but certainly Harry is not a sheltered playboy, he has done intense military training and served overseas in dangerous warzones. And the Nazi thing is ridiculous, it was a costume party damnit, its not like he wore one on a whim down the street. |
BANNED Posts: 1201 Joined: 18 Sep 2008 | He's an idiot, whether he's racist or not, I don't care, whatever gets him killed quickest. User was banned for: WOW: a wtf moment. (Permanent) |
Paperboy Posts: 46 Joined: 13 Jan 2009 |
Quoted for truth. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1319 Joined: 19 Dec 2008 | He's an idiot. We haven't enough information to conclude if he's also a racist. He's a spoiled brat with a distinct lack of a filter between his arse and his brain, making the stuff from the former leak into the latter. And this isn't a recent development, let's just remember the Nazi uniform on Holloween. Calling people Pakis and Ragheads WHILE being filmed is nothing short of collosal idiocy... |
BANNED Posts: 4378 Joined: 21 Aug 2008 |
New Jersey. Although my last roommate in college was from Kentucky :p User was banned for: Microsoft and the World Domination of Gaming&Communication. (Permanent) |
Pulitzer Laureate Posts: 847 Joined: 3 Aug 2008 |
Bahaha! |
Pulitzer Laureate Posts: 847 Joined: 3 Aug 2008 |
After reading this I actually have to agree, this is just elevated because of the media. Good point, friend. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1419 Joined: 12 Sep 2008 |
Exactly my thoughts upon hearing this "story" earlier in the CNN News Cycle. Having come from a long line of ancestors who served not only in the US Military but our respective European nations as well before coming across the pond it isn't even surprising. I've heard far worse language at the dinner table at family gatherings. |
Beat Writer Posts: 157 Joined: 12 Jan 2009 | Well, I wouldn't say he is really racist but he is just a moron, I mean come on... |
Pulitzer Laureate Posts: 701 Joined: 25 Oct 2008 |
Nope, insults are based on what the hearer thinks, not what the speaker intends. For example some older people might use the n-word (black folks) without the slightest of intent to insult, yet it is magically considered an insult. On Prince Harry subject, who gives a damn what useless celebrities think or say. I thought we were all past that. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2906 Joined: 10 Apr 2008 | it's understandable, but kings are figureheads, if they want all that money and shit then they should live with being inspected. He's an idiot |
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Prince Harry apparently called one of his fellow cadets a 'paki' and made a 'raghead' remark. This incident was recorded 3 years ago whilst he was a cadet, but this is not the first time something like this happened (Nazi fancy dress anyone?). I personally think he isnt a racist, but he is an arrogant idiotic toff, who is so sheltered by a cushy life he lacks empathy. What do you think?