"Paki" is a common abbreviation for "Pakistani" in Britain. Britain has a lot of Pakistanis.
"Paul Daniels, the magician, has been accused of racism for suggesting that the word "Paki" is no more offensive than the abbreviation "Brit".
Daniels, 72, wrote on Twitter during the Brit Awards ceremony last week: "What's this about 'Brit' awards? Surely not? Isn't that like calling someone a 'Paki'? Not PC dahlings."
He quickly added: "Hey, all I am saying is that I don't understand why one abbrev is OK and another isn't. It's all how you say it surely, not the ab itself."
Sam Tarry, campaign organiser with the anti-racism group Searchlight, said: "The word 'Paki' is offensive and racist, it is not something that can be compared to the word 'Brit'.
"It has been used not just to define people from Pakistan, but Asian people in general, and it has a long, nasty history. In the 1970s people used to talk about 'Paki-bashing'."
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Daniels is perfectly right. It's just another abbreviation. But people do get uptight about abbreviations at times. I (like many Australians) use "Abo" as an abbreviation for "Aborigine", but you do hear the abbreviation branded as "racist" sometimes.
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goes for Yank instead of Yankee (doesn't offend anybody) BUT...
Jap instead of Japanese
Nip instead of Nipponese
are offensive somehow
Since when did Pakistanis become their own race? In order to be racist one must refer to the race in general not a splinter group. Islam is not a race.
Just another chance to stir shit locally and keep the British off balance. If they are so bloody offended then Pak up and go home.
And the current PM has finally found the testosterone to call a 'spade a spade' or in todays language a'muslim radical is persona non grata'.
Brit offensive?
I prefer Limey myself.
The big problem with these whinny liberals is they reject the idea of free speech for conservatives
"Limey" is so pre-WWII even victorian! (dating from when Brit sailors wisely ate limes to prevent scurvy - didn't anyone else's navy?)
Now do you start to understand just how anti-freedom political correctness is?
PC is just another name for socialism
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