07-09-2018, 11:23 AM
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Re: Casual racism
Originally Posted by JBR
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No-one has yet mentioned 'wog' yet, unless I missed it.I haven't heard that word used in decades.
I think that was what my father said anyway!!
Perhaps it is better forgotten.
07-09-2018, 12:39 PM
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Re: Casual racism
Originally Posted by Silver Tabby
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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!
07-09-2018, 12:40 PM
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Re: Casual racism
Originally Posted by ruthio
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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!
07-09-2018, 12:40 PM
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Re: Casual racism
Originally Posted by Judd
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I thought that your posts had an air of class about them.
You should hear me sing 'On Ilkley Moor baht 'at' - with an Irish accent!!
07-09-2018, 12:42 PM
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Re: Casual racism
Originally Posted by Mups
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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.
07-09-2018, 12:51 PM
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Re: Casual racism
I think it depends on whether they're friends of yours.I've a Scottish friend I call Jimmy (as in: see you jimmy), a Jamaican friend I call Rasta, bump into him in the street and say Yo Rasta Man and touch knuckles.
etc.
But with someone you don't know, and you don't know how they like it, it's just too personal and yes can be rude.
07-09-2018, 01:00 PM
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Re: Casual racism
Originally Posted by Silver Tabby
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Was that not a forces acronym for 'wily oriental gentleman' ?I think that was what my father said anyway!!
Funny, though, how the words 'wily oriental gentleman' themselves have no obviously offensive content.
The word 'wily' (synonyms: shrewd, clever, sharp, sharp-witted, astute, canny, smart) is surely not offensive and, in fact, could even be seen as complimentary!
So interestingly, an apparently non-offensive (or even complimentary) phrase has become 'offensive' simply through the common use of its contraction in an intentionally offensive manner.
07-09-2018, 01:28 PM
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Re: Casual racism
Originally Posted by Mups
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My dad used to say that word. When I asked him what it meant he said "Western Oriental Gentleman."
Haven't heard it for donkeys years now.
I grew up with all these words, they were used as generalisations and when they were "banned" I thought the world of political correctness had gone mad.
But I can see that maybe they could be insulting, depending on context.
Just as an aside, when I was a kid I was told that WIMPEY (the blokes that used to drive vans and dug up the roads, not the burger place! ) was an acronym for....We Import More Paddys Every Year!
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