Dave Whelan

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He's called Claire Balding a Dick Van Dyke.

 

To be fair, Balding herself would probably hold her hands up to that one.

 

ok then what about Paul Van Dyke?

Les Bien

Liv Erlicker?

 

No, he's not a Dyke.

He's a Dyk.

What about Scout Dyke?

 

Slitty eyed muvver fookers I heard

 

Should we get offended when we are called a Brit which is a part of the word British? Just as Pakistanis are offended at the word Paki which is also part of the word?


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Or Londoners calling us Northerners

Or us calling Sheffielders Dee Dahs, them calling us Dingles

Or Huddersfield people calling us BlackArsetens

It's all derogatory, but none of us gives a f u c k, get over it, move on.

 

its a fookin farce,i wonder how many professional do-gooders will admit to have had a 'chinky',they'll be out in force on next weeks question time,you can bet your borrox on it

 

Aye, bet they moan about breastfeeding while having the chinky as well.


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"Excuse me madam, you have to use chopsticks when breastfeeding in this establishment"


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It's to do with the negative connotations of the word rather than the letters used to form it.

 

Brit isn't used as a derogatory term, Paki is.

 

Never sure why people don't get that it's so straightforward anyone would think they are being deliberately obtuse.

 

I'd agree wit that.

I would imagine the majority of people who hail from China are like the majority of people the world over. Use a word that isn't necessarily politically correct in a friendly manner when it's obvious you mean neither disrespect nor offence and they won't find it offensive, use the word with aggression, malice and the intent to cause offence and the probably will.

"G'day Jay mate, long time no see, let me buy you a beer you pomme barstard."
"**** off out of it before I throw you out, you ******* pom."

"What's for tea? Let's get a take-away. I fancy a chinky."
"What's your problem you ******* chinky lovely person."

There are some caveats to that. A minority of people will look to find offence in whatever you say unless you're fluent in what they believe to be the acceptable language of that particular day. What is acceptable appears to change as often as I change my pants.

Some words have such negative connotations, the 'n' word for example, (which is not a contraction or distortion of a person's nationality like Brit, Aussie or Chinky, it's a word that means lazy or useless) that it's gone way beyond politically incorrect, it's just plain wrong. It was used for centuries to keep a whole section of the population down. Some groups of black people have reclaimed it, but they're far from the majority. You'd have to have a pretty special relationship with someone to use that word without looking like you're trying to cause offence.

Maybe Chinese people in this country view the word Chinky the same way as black people view the n word. However, I doubt it. The reason I doubt it is that I've never, in all my life, heard anyone use the word in a derogatory manner, I've only ever heard people use it to describe summat nice they're having for their tea. Personally, I haven't used the word since I was a child. It doesn't sit comfortable with me. I don't find the word offensive, but I've never found any word I've heard in my life offensive. I'm not sure I understand the emotion of offence. There's some stuff I don't like, there's some stuff you could say to me that would result in me smacking you in the face, but it wouldn't be because I was offended.

I'm not trying to speak for Chinese people, they will tell you if they find the word offensive or not, but I'd be surprised if the majority thought it was such a terrible word.

 

They'd probably be offended in the way Malky Mackay used it though. It was used in a derogatory and offensive way against someone he didn't like. And that's what Whelan is trying to defend, not someone saying they're going for a Chinese. He's just using that different example, which I completey agree with you on, to defend what Mackay did and his appointing of him