I'm with Jay on this one.
If someone black called me a White b****** I don't think I'd feel particularly hurt even if I was in the middle of Africa and a minority.

We've had all this with the 'Yid' thread with people asking is "Paddy" racist? What about (thieving) Scouser?

I think certain terms are way out of order such as the N-wprd because of all its connections with the Slave era. I've never really understood why P-A-K-I is particularly offensive as it's only an abbreviation of ****stani.

Also why is Racial assualt worse than a normal assault. Beating up someone because you don't like their colour or beating up someone because they spilt your pint still amounts to the same crime.

At the moment this is the media hot potato and the Sun especially is picking up on any Racist soccer issue with a vengeance.

People will always pick on someone for being different - it happens from our earliest days at school. Who had a girl who always stunk of pee in their class? Hands Up. Was calling her 'pee pants' worse than calling an Indian waiter "Oi Gupta!"

I think the Race Card is played when it's wanted and ignored when it's not. When the newspaper says "A Black Man was seen in the area" it's just reporting a fact. If I go to Palace and call Dwight Yorke a "Black c***" it's considered racist?? I would have thought being called a c*** was the worst bit of the sentence.

This always makes for a lively debate on here - but that's my two-penneth worth.

You fed me, you bred me, I'll remember your name.

Madcap said that monkey chanting is AIMED at making the person feel subhuman, not that it makes them feel subhuman. There's a difference.

When you consider the context of racism - slavery, genocide, the holocaust, colonialism - you should be able to see that racial abuse has another dimension when compared to abuse because of someone's hair colour or what they wear. Remember you can change your clothes, dye your hair or wear contacts instead of glasses. Skin colour is impossible to change.

"You can feel the stadium jumping. The stadium is actually physically moving up and down"
FA Cup MOTD 24/4/16

Much less of a burden that slaves carried, and much less than many African countries are still carrying as a result of European imperialism.

"You can feel the stadium jumping. The stadium is actually physically moving up and down"
FA Cup MOTD 24/4/16

That is a fantastic post. Saved me the trouble of making the same points.

what i find out of order is the fact that we openly accept temples being erected in the UK but if a small british, or generally white community would try to make a christian Church in Dehli theyd be strung up.

PCorrectness can somtimes go to far one way...

Well didn't i read on here that someone's firm is not having a Christmas Party this year to avoid offending the non-Christians? I think sometimes we forget that we are a Christian rooted country who openly accept other religions and cultures but that we should not forget our heritage either, as tainted as it may be.