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06-09-2018, 10:34 PM
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Re: Casual racism

Originally Posted by Silver Tabby ->
I would not like to be referred to as 'european' - because I am not. Nor 'Brit' - because I am not. 'Paddy' - well - a lot depends on who says it and how it is said. 'Yorky' - it is where I live now and is a warm and welcoming place - so I would take that as compliment.

But I would not go into a strop about any of them - life is too short!
Quite right .... hello there fellow Earthling
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06-09-2018, 10:43 PM
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Re: Casual racism

Originally Posted by mart ->
I'd say it's not a lot different to:

Geordie.
Brummie.
Cockney.
Northerner.
Southerner.

None of those would be meant to be offensive in my opinion. It just describes what area a person comes from.


I agree with you, Mart.

I got called a country bumpkin recently - or sounded like one - but it just made me smile. It was meant in jest, and that is how I took it.
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06-09-2018, 11:05 PM
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Re: Casual racism

well that's cleared the air and a lot of names - I'll have a double ta!
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07-09-2018, 07:28 AM
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Re: Casual racism

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Yes, that's a good comparison. I don't think it would bother me.

A black man once called me white trash!
Yes Carol black people do make racist remarks too ,
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07-09-2018, 07:29 AM
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Re: Casual racism

Originally Posted by Roxy ->
My friend Gill is English and I always call her "Sassenach" when we meet up, she takes no offence and none is meant. She calls me "Jock" often, it's just pet names we have used for years..
I mean look at Jamie Frazier !
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07-09-2018, 07:30 AM
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Re: Casual racism

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I've heard it used in a derogatory fashion and as a Scottish person I've got the right to be offended if anyone throws it my way.

Are dago or wop just slang, too? BTW I'd really prefer it if you didn't respond to my posts but realise I can't help it if you do. Perhaps a mod can arrange one of those mutual block thingies.

But who uses dago and wop these days
These are outdated words .
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07-09-2018, 09:21 AM
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Re: Casual racism

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But who uses dago and wop these days
These are outdated words .
These are ethnic slurs and deliberately insulting.
How anyone can consider Jock or Taffy racist is quite beyond me.

But if folk choose to feel insulted then they will!
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07-09-2018, 09:23 AM
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Re: Casual racism

Originally Posted by ruthio ->
these are ethnic slurs and deliberately insulting.
How anyone can consider jock or taffy racist is quite beyond me.

But if folk choose to feel insulted then they will!
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07-09-2018, 09:28 AM
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Re: Casual racism

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Quite right .... hello there fellow Earthling
Hello!
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07-09-2018, 11:21 AM
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Re: Casual racism

No-one has yet mentioned 'wog' yet, unless I missed it.

I haven't heard that word used in decades, although you heard it all the time when ah wer a lad.
 
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