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I would consider that racist....:thumbdown:

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Then you don't understand what the term 'Racist' means. It's way too easy to throw the word around and spread ill feeling, the PC brigade are experts at this and it's just plain wrong and buggers up society in the long term.

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Let's be honest...it's just being pedantic to exclude abuse based on nationality from the common definition of racism...it's all one and the same.

The Racial Discrimination Act which has been around probably a little bit longer than the time people have been obsessed with the term 'PC brigade' covers acts which are done because of the race, colour or national or ethnic origin of the other person or some or all of the people in the group.

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Agreed, some can split hairs if they want - but okay then, let's call it "nationality-ist", like in "fat-ist" or "sex-ist".

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Well personally i took it and judged it as a racist comment whether anyone else agree's or not.

:)

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Jus' gie 'im the ******' grovit, Jim.

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If the remarks passed to the OP are considered racist, there must be a lot of racists on this form, considering the comments made about Australians and other nationalities. :rolleyes:

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Pete's brother?

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I don't - not in any way, shape or form

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Ahh, but that's different ;)

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Totally agree. There are massive double standards about this on BE. People who rail against being called poms, or about the Aussie use of the words wog and paki, have no qualms about using the word chinky to describe Chinese food. A certain poster on here has, on several occasions, used the K-word to describe black people. Hardly anyone pulled him up on it (I think there was one comment) and the mods said nothing. If, as a white South African, I used that term I would be crucified - and rightly so.

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The things is, that poster is a complete and utter moron so I don't see the point in saying anything to them, they'd probably enjoy it.

I remember when they flounced, and all these people came out of the woodwork saying, 'please don't go' and 'you've contributed so much over the years'. I was seriously confused by that!

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You're no the only one!

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Who? Jim?

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Actually the poster in question has been spoken to more than once about it. Just because its not done in public doesn't mean it doesn't happen. It might help if more people reported comments they find offensive instead of expecting the mods to be mind-readers.