Harridan
Thursday 16th August 2012 5:39pm
3,170 posts
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ August 16 2012, 6:27 PM BST
Well obviously. But you'd have to be pretty thick to think I was actually being a proper racist. Either that or you enjoy reading verbatim out of your liberal manifesto to admonish people because you have nothing better to do or add to the conversation.
Ironic racism and real racism often look the same. I don't think you're a racist, but I also don't think you should use racist language because it pleases you.
The family I work for are French, and recently in the park the boy I look after was playing rough with some English boys he'd just met - the boy had enough when he got a bit hurt and decided to play elsewhere, at which point the English boys started taunting him and throwing stones at him saying "French people are cowards!" "Just like the French to run away!". Those 8 year-olds got those insults from 'ironic racism' that the people dishing it out couldn't have anticipated.
I used to live with two Asian women and our house was egged regularly by local kids who didn't like 'pakis'. One time we were attacked while walking home because my friends were Asian - my friend's boyfriend lost two teeth defending her from people trying to hurt her while shouting 'paki'.
It's not liberal bullshit - using those words 'ironically' allows people to use them without irony. Using words that distinguish minority groups from the whole of society allows people to isolate and attack them. I know you're just using them as a fun way to get a reaction, but maybe you should wait until they aren't any longer used by people with malicious intent before you use them for fun.