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[lancebond]

yeah spike you'd think i would.. being black and all.

and yet i think the reaction was a little over the top... it's an internet forum for a starter.. not the queens speech

but i guess it's a reactionary society we live in now... and one that seems to be offended alot easier than previous ones.

anyways i'm off to bed.

 

[neilrr]

A word is racist or offensive IF someone other than the person using it finds it offensive/racist.

Oh dear.

 

[Ted]

"cheese eating surrender monkey"

Ha ha! that made me laugh!!

 

[prprandall51]

I'm not suggesting the poster is in any way racist, I am just pointing out the word itself could be deemed that way. I was not aware that you ha to have x number of posts before you could have a opinion sorry about that

Kimble, a belated welcome to the forum.

The problem is that you said that you yourself were "not happy with the racist words"; you did not say that you were concerned on behalf of the moderators that an offensive word had been used.

Naturally, you are entitlted to your opinion and you should feel free to express it but, if you really didn't have a personal issue with the word (given the context in which it appeared) my opinion is that your wording of your opinion was misleading.

 

[Scott_F]

Oh incidentally Sir Douglas Bader had a dog by that name.

Pointless fact.

No he didn't.

 

[Ted]

Coirrect! It was Guy Gibson IIRC

 

[prprandall51]

Coirrect! It was Guy Gibson IIRC

Yes! The same Guy Gibson who also was known to use less than polite terms to describe Germans from time to time, so he must have been a racist. I mean, calling German people names... it's appalling.

 

[kwakdonut]

Oh dear.

As daft as it sounds, he is quite correct. We might not like it but I have been to enough Equality & Diversity meetings to at least have some understanding of the things that upset people!

Think the point has been made now, let's all move on.

Kimble, welcome to the forum - it really is a nice place and it's extremely rare that offence is ever intended on here

 

[neilrr]

In the past couple of months I've been accused of being an American, a Canadian, an Australian, an Irishman, a New Zealander & most bizarrely of all, Dutch. I have naturally found this cackhanded attempt at racial stereotyping & tagging grossly offensive & have been sorely wounded by the insensitivity of these comments.

Kimble, whom do I sue & how much compy do you reckon it's worth?

 

[kwakdonut]

Oh dear.

Yes! The same Guy Gibson who also was known to use less than polite terms to describe Germans from time to time, so he must have been a racist. I mean, calling German people names... it's appalling.

Didn't they delete the scenes from the film where the dog was called by it's name when the DVD was released? Now that is PC gone mad!

 

[neilrr]

In a preemptive move to head off any litigation & perhaps placate any Dutch members, people with Dutch ancestry, people who holiday in Holland or drive through it on the way to somewhere else or people who like tulips, Edam, red light districts etc I would like apologise for my use of "bizarrely" & to say I used the word only because I've never been to Holland, making it very unlikely I would have a Dutch accent.

I'd like to add I do not regard Holland or the Dutch as being in any way more or less bizarre than any other nation, or indeed sounding bizarre.

No offense was intended.

 

[timskemp]

What's up with everyone, it's not like anyone said BMW.

 

[Ted]

What's up with everyone, it's not like anyone said BMW.

MODS!!!!! DELETE ^^^ THAT POST.

I am SO offended!

 

[Deleted member 37751]

In a preemptive move to head off any litigation & perhaps placate any Dutch members, people with Dutch ancestry, people who holiday in Holland or drive through it on the way to somewhere else or people who like tulips, Edam, red light districts etc I would like apologise for my use of "bizarrely" & to say I used the word only because I've never been to Holland, making it very unlikely I would have a Dutch accent.

I'd like to add I do not regard Holland or the Dutch as being in any way more or less bizarre than any other nation, or indeed sounding bizarre.

No offense was intended.

So, where are you from? My guess would be S.A. with the clues you have given....

 

[neilrr]

I have been accused of being S. African, though not in the last couple of months.

 

[momomo]

You are British American? You do have an American accent or hint of an American accent when you speak.

 

[219]

A word is racist or offensive IF someone other than the person using it finds it offensive/racist.

Rubbish .

That comment simply means that the 'someone other' has a problem .

The word under discussion is simply a derivative of the word 'negro' and can be a matter of fact description of a black person without any insult being intended .

In the same way , I have lots of friends of Asian ethnicity who refer to each other as 'Pakis' without any insult either being intended or existing - if some PC person overhears this and has a problem with it , the problem is theirs and theirs alone . If the term is used as a deliberate racial insult , then that clearly is a different matter , but then almost any word that identifies someone as belonging to a particular race could be held to be offensive by the person to whom it is directed .

As a Scots engineer , having worked on projects in numerous countries , I am well used to being adressed as 'Jock' or 'Scotty' etc - no offence intended or perceived - but the PC brigade would presumably take offence at that ???

On the other side of the coin , you might venture down a Glasgow street on a Saturday night following a Scotland/England football game and overhear a drunken insult " You English ******** " - clearly , that WOULD be racist abuse - but would you then try to outlaw use of the word 'ENGLISH' ???

99% of the time , problems with certain words are in the eyes of the beholders and said people need to go and 'get a life' .

The username 'kimble' might be offensive to one-armed-men for all we know - should the member therefore stop using it ?

 

[timskemp]

In the past couple of months I've been accused of being an American, a Canadian, an Australian, an Irishman, a New Zealander & most bizarrely of all, Dutch. I have naturally found this cackhanded attempt at racial stereotyping & tagging grossly offensive & have been sorely wounded by the insensitivity of these comments.

Kimble, whom do I sue & how much compy do you reckon it's worth?

Ahhh if you have the "I can't place it" accent that's mistaken for Sith Efrikken then you must be from Rhodesia Zimbabwe. Blooming whenwes

 

[219]

I've spoken to Neil on the phone and would have taken his ethnicity to be consistent with his surname .

 

[Mr E]

Didn't they delete the scenes from the film where the dog was called by it's name when the DVD was released? Now that is PC gone mad!

No sure about the DVD, but when it was on BBC the other night the word was still there.