Exactly
It's about usage. "Paki-bashing" "Fuck off Paki" "Pakis go home".
Usually cricket fans call them "the Stans" and that is perfectly acceptable, not because it has a different derivation, but because it is not associated with racism
Posted By: Old Git on July 23rd 2010 at 12:37:53
Message Thread
- Aussies 5wickets down. Could be a great win for the Pakis (Other Sports) - shoddy, Jul 23, 12:14:19
- Clarke gone! 216/7 (n/m) (Other Sports) - shoddy, Jul 23, 13:18:27
- 6 down (n/m) (Other Sports) - Huge Small, Jul 23, 13:20:20
- oh yeah! massive wicket tho! (Other Sports) - shoddy, Jul 23, 13:24:10
- It does. (Other Sports) - Huge Small, Jul 23, 13:31:06
- oh yeah! massive wicket tho! (Other Sports) - shoddy, Jul 23, 13:24:10
- 6 down (n/m) (Other Sports) - Huge Small, Jul 23, 13:20:20
- word of warning, dont think you can say pakis any more mate (n/m) (Other Sports) - Only1Doherty, Jul 23, 12:18:56
- Stewart Lee on political correctness (Other Sports) - BerlinCanary, Jul 23, 15:41:00
- they would like it less if you called then Indian (n/m) (Other Sports) - south, Jul 23, 12:36:56
- probably not in multicultural britain no. (Other Sports) - shoddy, Jul 23, 12:27:55
- Writing 'multicultual britain' in a sneery way doesn't exactly help your cause. (n/m) (Other Sports) - Hertz van Rental, Jul 23, 12:56:19
- what is my cause? (Other Sports) - shoddy, Jul 23, 13:02:50
- Paki has been an offensive word in Britain since the 1950s (Other Sports) - The Judge, Jul 23, 13:07:19
- Surely those two descriptions could equally be prescribed to you! (n/m) (Other Sports) - Sprouty from Lynn, Jul 23, 15:10:51
- Paki has been an offensive word in Britain since the 1950s (Other Sports) - The Judge, Jul 23, 13:07:19
- what is my cause? (Other Sports) - shoddy, Jul 23, 13:02:50
- have you been away since the 70's then? (n/m) (Other Sports) - Ralf Scrampton, Jul 23, 12:43:27
- Writing 'multicultual britain' in a sneery way doesn't exactly help your cause. (n/m) (Other Sports) - Hertz van Rental, Jul 23, 12:56:19
- why not if you can call scottish people scots, australians - auzzies, south africans - saf (Other Sports) - Tony Martin, Jul 23, 12:21:10
- Personally, I find "aussies" very offensive. (n/m) (Other Sports) - CB41, Jul 23, 12:50:08
- As you well know, that is not how it works (Other Sports) - The Judge, Jul 23, 12:29:16
- as a brit, i have no problem using the word paki. (Other Sports) - shoddy, Jul 23, 12:23:59
- just because you have no problem calling them that, it doesnt matter about them? (Other Sports) - Only1Doherty, Jul 23, 12:30:18
- what the fuck? fucking pakis? whats wrong with you? (Other Sports) - shoddy, Jul 23, 12:34:05
- Because they don't like it and it isn't up to you (pretty bloody obviously) (n/m) (Other Sports) - The Judge, Jul 23, 12:29:43
- labour councillor (Other Sports) - Tony Martin, Jul 23, 12:33:34
- just because you have no problem calling them that, it doesnt matter about them? (Other Sports) - Only1Doherty, Jul 23, 12:30:18
- Because they find it very offensive (Other Sports) - Old Git, Jul 23, 12:23:19
- i dont think they do, and if they do why do they. bloke sitting opposite me (Other Sports) - Tony Martin, Jul 23, 12:27:34
- It isn't about the derivation of the word, it's about the history of the usage of the word (Other Sports) - Arizona Bay, Jul 23, 12:34:49
- Exactly (Other Sports) - Old Git, Jul 23, 12:37:53
- it only became racist due to the abusive words put with the word paki (Other Sports) - Tony Martin, Jul 23, 12:46:14
- Yes, that is why it became racist (Other Sports) - Old Git, Jul 23, 12:51:04
- Of course it's racist lol (Other Sports) - SCC 28, Jul 23, 12:50:16
- "brit-bashing" "Fuck off brit" "brits go home" (Other Sports) - shoddy, Jul 23, 12:44:48
- Fucking hell are (n/m) (Other Sports) - SCC 28, Jul 23, 12:48:34
- you fishing? (n/m) (Other Sports) - SCC 28, Jul 23, 12:49:22
- your ignorance is astonishing. (n/m) (Other Sports) - Yellalee, Jul 23, 12:47:28
- his *willful and deliberate* ignorance is what is really astonishing (n/m) (Other Sports) - Ralf Scrampton, Jul 23, 12:51:49
- racists are ignorant (Other Sports) - shoddy, Jul 23, 12:51:28
- Very little by the looks of it (n/m) (Other Sports) - The Judge, Jul 23, 12:56:59
- Fucking hell are (n/m) (Other Sports) - SCC 28, Jul 23, 12:48:34
- it only became racist due to the abusive words put with the word paki (Other Sports) - Tony Martin, Jul 23, 12:46:14
- Exactly (Other Sports) - Old Git, Jul 23, 12:37:53
- Great, you don't get it - so what? (Other Sports) - The Judge, Jul 23, 12:31:08
- whose they, a small minority. bloke sitting opposite me says its fine and... (Other Sports) - Tony Martin, Jul 23, 12:35:09
- Tricky! Tricky! Paging Tricky Hawes! (Other Sports) - Arizona Bay, Jul 23, 14:40:17
- whose they, a small minority. bloke sitting opposite me says its fine and... (Other Sports) - Tony Martin, Jul 23, 12:35:09
- It isn't about the derivation of the word, it's about the history of the usage of the word (Other Sports) - Arizona Bay, Jul 23, 12:34:49
- you think so? (Other Sports) - shoddy, Jul 23, 12:26:37
- Lol at comparing yank with paki (n/m) (Other Sports) - SCC 28, Jul 23, 12:39:19
- i dont think they do, and if they do why do they. bloke sitting opposite me (Other Sports) - Tony Martin, Jul 23, 12:27:34
- racist (n/m) (Other Sports) - Rofl_Harris, Jul 23, 12:14:50
- dont be daft (Other Sports) - shoddy, Jul 23, 12:18:03
- Big lol! (n/m) (Other Sports) - Sprouty from Lynn, Jul 23, 15:13:58
- dont be daft (Other Sports) - shoddy, Jul 23, 12:18:03
- Clarke gone! 216/7 (n/m) (Other Sports) - shoddy, Jul 23, 13:18:27
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