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Gopher
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| bucheon bum wrote: |
| I had no idea myself that it was a slur. |
Same here. Never heard "Pakis" used in the way "kikes" is used (by some). Maybe it is different in Australia, Britain, or Canada.
In the U.S., though, our general slur for Middle Easterners is "raghead." |
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tiger fancini
Joined: 21 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 5:45 pm Post subject: |
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Paki certainly is a slur in the UK, and has been for as far back as I can remember. It's a general term used by ignorant folks to describe people from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Basically anywhere where the people appear 'brown'. Some of the common uses of the term include 'why are there so many paki's here?' 'Kill the paki's', 'smelly paki's' and 'are you a paki lover? Take this!'
However, in a similair comparison to black folks using the word 'nigga' with each other, a lot of the asians are doing the same thing with 'paki' now. |
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R. S. Refugee
Joined: 29 Sep 2004
Location: Shangra La, ROK
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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| tiger fancini wrote: |
However, in a similair comparison to black folks using the word 'nigga' with each other, a lot of the asians are doing the same thing with 'paki' now. |
One worthwhile explanation of that phenomenum is that is it an example of innoculation against racist abuse. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 6:17 pm Post subject: |
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more of her please and less of the other pakistani chick. |
Yeah. I wonder if Pakistan would be protesting if the pageant contestant looked like that. |
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 9:05 pm Post subject: |
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On the other hand wrote:
So, if someone in Houston does something to upset some Jewish people, and I start a thread called "Houtonian freaks out the kikes", everyone here is okay with that?
classy.
Pakistanis- paki's
Jews- k*kes
Moral equivalency mas turba ting its own pathetic excuse for "creative thinking"
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Sundubuman:
I can assure you that Paki was widely used as a racial slur in my Canadian hometown in the 1970s and 80s, and rarely, if ever, as a neutral abbreviation. And I think this was its general usage in the UK as well. If you didn't intend it as an insult, I apologize for implying that you did. However, I would advise you to change the title of this thread. |
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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Oh, and one more thing...
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Pakistanis- paki's
Jews- k*kes
Moral equivalency mas turba ting its own pathetic excuse for "creative thinking"
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There was indeed a precise equivalence between the way we(yes, I am saying "we") used the word "paki" and the way an anti-semite uses the word "k ike". If anyone doubts this, they can send me a PM and I'll be happy to forward them a list of "paki jokes" that circulated at my middle school, most of which spoke of Southeast Asians in the most degrading terms imaginable. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 8:13 am Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
| bucheon bum wrote: |
| I had no idea myself that it was a slur. |
Same here. Never heard "Pakis" used in the way "kikes" is used (by some). Maybe it is different in Australia, Britain, or Canada.
In the U.S., though, our general slur for Middle Easterners is "raghead." |
I did not know it was a slur, either. I'll have to be careful. |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 8:32 am Post subject: |
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| Hm, that's interesting. As with OTOH I've never heard it except as a slur. Weird to think we don't *quite* speak the same language. |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Jews- k*kes |
It's cute the way you folks think J*hw*w will strike you down if you dare to write a vowel here and there.
Somehow, I doubt that G-d really gives a sh-t. |
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