Well, to me there's only two groups I hate, racists and the French.
Anyways, old one liners aside, I grew up with my local corners shop being daubed with graffiti like 'wogs out' and 'paki go home', and I still don't think paki is necessarily so bad.
It's not to be casually used, I think, but again, its all contextual, and so long as the indian soldier in this case gets to call prince Harry 'ginger nuts' or some other redhead thing, then fine. I genuinely don't believe Harry was being properly racist, just that he's too dim and inbred to realise society has moved on from the 70s.
Another example, the whole Jade Goody/Big Brother thing. This is another case where its not 'real' racism, but a case of a woman who was poorly educated and lacking in intelligence, getting angry at a woman who's obviously more successful, more attractive and more popular than her, and not having a good vocabulary, could only think of derogatory racist terms to try to verbally hurt her.
The stupid thing being, racists like to make out that other countries are backwards and mental, and then there's rioting in the streets in India because someone was rude to one of their movie stars, that's no way to prove you're above it.
Anyway, I find racism tends to be a tool by dullards and idiots to try to oppress people better than them by the only way they know how, as they fear anything different to themselves.
I still think the vast majority of 'racists' are just people who don't understand other cultures and fear them a little, and making fun of them makes them feel better, and that it's a pretty small percentage that actually wish harm on or actually attack people based on race.
Anyways, old one liners aside, I grew up with my local corners shop being daubed with graffiti like 'wogs out' and 'paki go home', and I still don't think paki is necessarily so bad.
It's not to be casually used, I think, but again, its all contextual, and so long as the indian soldier in this case gets to call prince Harry 'ginger nuts' or some other redhead thing, then fine. I genuinely don't believe Harry was being properly racist, just that he's too dim and inbred to realise society has moved on from the 70s.
Another example, the whole Jade Goody/Big Brother thing. This is another case where its not 'real' racism, but a case of a woman who was poorly educated and lacking in intelligence, getting angry at a woman who's obviously more successful, more attractive and more popular than her, and not having a good vocabulary, could only think of derogatory racist terms to try to verbally hurt her.
The stupid thing being, racists like to make out that other countries are backwards and mental, and then there's rioting in the streets in India because someone was rude to one of their movie stars, that's no way to prove you're above it.
Anyway, I find racism tends to be a tool by dullards and idiots to try to oppress people better than them by the only way they know how, as they fear anything different to themselves.
I still think the vast majority of 'racists' are just people who don't understand other cultures and fear them a little, and making fun of them makes them feel better, and that it's a pretty small percentage that actually wish harm on or actually attack people based on race.
