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You, specifically, in this case, John, and more broadly Germaine Greer. More broadly again, since apparently the word hasn't, at least according to Channel 4, actually been used, the broader debate is about what _does_ constitute racially-motivated harrassment on Big Brother. This is a side-issue involving something Germaine Greer said, which may or may not relate to something Jade Goody's boyfriend allegedly said or did not say.
Short version: if your Indian frieds want to get extra upset because a particular term of abuse aimed at them and their people sounds a bit like "Pakistani", that's their prerogative, but it's really rather missing the point.
Wonderstarr: Yeah, except that it has never really been an insult directed solely at Pakistani people, or at least not in Britain and not for a long time. It's a term of abuse directed at South Asian people generally. As such, and as you say, it doesn't really matter to somebody saying it whether they intend maliciously to misrepresent someone's country of origin - because it's hate speech, in a way, incidentally, that "Englishman" and "Scotsman" are not, which I think is why that doesn't work. |
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