PMFJI but...As a Brit, I can use the word Brit, in the same way Chris Rock could 'drop the N-bomb'. I would however never refer to a Pakistani (or in this case an Afghani) as a Paki as it is always used as an insult.
Having lived in or around Whitechapel for the last 30 years, I have come to realise that there are so many peoples from the Indian subcontinent that you can no more make generalisations about 'Pakis' than you can about any other racial or ethnic group.
Once you start using pronouns for sweeping generalisations (THEY do this, WE do that, I can't stand THEM for the way they oppress women) then it is the first step on a slippery slope that ends at some gates with Arbeit Macht Frei above them...
(Having lived in or around Whitechapel for the last 30 years, I have come to realise that there are so many peoples from the Indian subcontinent that you can no more make generalisations about 'Pakis' than you can about any other racial or ethnic group.
Once you start using pronouns for sweeping generalisations (THEY do this, WE do that, I can't stand THEM for the way they oppress women) then it is the first step on a slippery slope that ends at some gates with Arbeit Macht Frei above them...
da5id <YOUR SIG HERE>,
Sun 7 Mar 2010, 16:02,
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Bollocks.I hang out with lots of middle-eastern and africans, I'm far more comfortable saying nigger and paki around them than I am other white people. They return the rascism in good humour. It's only a problem when people like you make a big issue out of it.
Censorship exacerbates.
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Sun 7 Mar 2010, 17:00,
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Censorship exacerbates.