bongo bongo land
Aug 8th 2013 | 9:20 am
#16
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Re: bongo bongo land
Aug 8th 2013 | 9:38 am
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Re: bongo bongo land
The offence is really more about people trying to impose and enforce a particular opinion on other people via speech codes. The phrase is childish and silly and out-dated, but not offensive, as there is nothing offensive or derogatory about the bongos, nor the implication that they might constitute an integral part of one's country's musical heritage. It's like when the French call us the Roast Beefs. There is nothing derogatory about roast beef, nor the implication than we might eat it too much.
Aug 8th 2013 | 10:55 am
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Re: bongo bongo land
That aside, a previous use of the expression created a right old stink for the politician involved.
What's the excuse for a subsequent politician to use the same expression? Ignorance? Stupidity? Contempt?
Aug 8th 2013 | 11:06 am
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Re: bongo bongo land
On the other hand, Jungle Land doesn't exist but racists will still use it to describe an area of town populated mainly by black people.
That aside, a previous use of the expression created a right old stink for the politician involved.
What's the excuse for a subsequent politician to use the same expression? Ignorance? Stupidity? Contempt?
That aside, a previous use of the expression created a right old stink for the politician involved.
What's the excuse for a subsequent politician to use the same expression? Ignorance? Stupidity? Contempt?
Perhaps he's simply not been brainwashed into boring political correctness. For better or worse, there are millions of people just like him in the country.
Aug 8th 2013 | 11:17 am
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Re: bongo bongo land
shard, very well put
Aug 8th 2013 | 11:53 am
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Re: bongo bongo land
But this expression is on a par with Jim Davidson and his nig-nog IMO.
Aug 8th 2013 | 12:24 pm
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Re: bongo bongo land
I wish to express my extreme gratitude that the contributors to this thread are living in Canada. Please stay there. Never come home.
Aug 8th 2013 | 12:26 pm
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Re: bongo bongo land
If it's something I wouldn't be comfortable saying to my black friends it isn't acceptable. I am the national standard and it's a no go.
Aug 8th 2013 | 12:31 pm
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Aug 9th 2013 | 1:06 am
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Re: bongo bongo land
The MEP said the expression was "not racist at all" because the dictionary defined the "bongo" as a white forest-dwelling animal.
"If anybody would care to take the trouble to get out the Oxford dictionary this morning and look it up, you'll find that bongo is a white antelope, lives in the forest, there is no connotation of racism about it whatsoever," he said. "Bongo land is the land of the antelope.
"If anybody would care to take the trouble to get out the Oxford dictionary this morning and look it up, you'll find that bongo is a white antelope, lives in the forest, there is no connotation of racism about it whatsoever," he said. "Bongo land is the land of the antelope.
So he was really talking about sending money to the land of the white antelope, then.
Now it all makes sense, he's not using insensitive language after all, he's just away with the fairies.
Best not to vote for him I suppose.
Aug 9th 2013 | 1:45 am
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Re: bongo bongo land
Aug 9th 2013 | 2:25 am
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s.
Aug 9th 2013 | 3:14 am
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Re: bongo bongo land
Good lord, you're right.
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Aug 9th 2013 | 5:17 am
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Re: bongo bongo land
People who talk about 'PC going mad' are just about always outdated, racist cretins.
