Racist Terms
Posted: Sun 11 January, 2009 Filed under: Cynicism, Offensive Repetition, Weirdness 9 Comments »Of all the things that annoy me about the story of Prince Harry using a racially insulting term (no less than three years ago) is that the media then seems to use it as an excuse for repeating and publicising the same term ad infinitum.
The BBC story linked to above uses it, and the ITV News story I saw a few minutes ago on it used the same term no less than three times within the story.
So how does the media explain how they can get away with it when they’re reporting how offensive it is for someone else to use the term?
Ehhh because they are reporting the news, not making it? If they just said ‘he’d said something offensive’ then no-one learns WHAT it was that was offensive. So now I know not to use said term (I mean, I knew already, but perhaps others didn’t).
P.S. Is what he said better or worse than you calling someone a cunt? 😉
Apparently it’s worse. After all, if I call someone a cunt, most times people agree with me – or at least I don’t hear shit about it if they don’t.
However, using the P word seems to get the media’s collective knickers in a twist, and everyone raises their hands in horror.
So on that basis, using the P word is supposedly *far* worse than calling someone a cunt. Funny old world, innit?
What pissed me off even more was Gordon Brown declaring “the public will forgive Harry”. We will? That’s nice of him to decide that for us and pronounce it on our behalf. Especially as we never even ELECTED him.
Pewari, you expected anything else from that cunt?
But . . . you can’t call him a black cunt (the paki not GB) – stay with the original for GB
On second thoughts – is scottish cunt considered racist?
No, not really… but I keep clinging on to the hope that one day he’ll surprise me. Hasn’t happened yet, though.
On current evidence, I’d say “Cunt” knows no colour, race, creed, or sexuality. As such, it’s supposedly far less offensive (unless, as John points out, when attached to a specific colour/race/creed/nationality/whatever) than a racial epithet or some other form of bigotry.
In that context, “Cunt” is perhaps a comment on personality/person, but has no regard for any other aspect of the target’s existence.
Which works for me. Gordon Brown would be a cunt regardless of where he was born. 🙂