no excuse
it's a racist term, everyone who speaks English knows this.
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Where do you stand on Engrish?
Edit: Beneath the parapet apparently. Which may be very wise, because a witch hunt rides this Guy Fawkes eve.
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Thu 5 Nov 2015, 20:10,
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I think you are being a little over sensitive.
Especially as I'm a girl and addressing someone who called themselves tits. Just saying. I'd agree wog is offensive, but porridge-wog less so because it admits stupidity by nature, or it does to most of us as we know that Scots don't eat porridge more than anyone else, and the term 'wog' in a racial sense, doesn't apply at all. It is a pretty stupid phrase and not one I'd use, but I can't make myself get worked up about it. Anymore than you being called tits and another user called pissflaps. If B3ta is going to go PC, you both are out, surely?
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TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Fri 6 Nov 2015, 1:58,
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I reckon you've missed the point of the phrase porridge wog.
it's to say to scots "you lot are as bad as the fucking wogs except you lot aren't black: the thing that makes you different is that you're Scottish".
It's clearly using the word in a racist way. It's expanding on anti-black racism to include Scots in the wrong sort of people category.
It's basically the same as the phrase "sand nigger" to describe arab people. As in as bad/stupid/(pick your hateful assumption) as a black person but in a different way.
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tickle I was away, Fri 6 Nov 2015, 14:07,
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I'm pretty good at missing the point
But I see what you are saying. I suppose it would help if I knew what so many of the derogatory names given to people actually meant. Or even the less derogatory ones. I know I'm a Limey, a Honky, a Roast Beef and a Pom, but I only know the origins of Limey and Roast Beef.
It's quite interesting really.
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TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Fri 6 Nov 2015, 16:59,
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Come on tickle
For fuck's sake it's impossible to be racist towards Scots. It's like being racist towards Texans.
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Fri 6 Nov 2015, 20:19,
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It's the wog bit that's racist.
Why is everyone suddenly acting as though wog isn't a really quite racist word or using it beside another word or about white people makes it unracist?
The anti-scottish bit is xenophobic rather than racist.
I'm not getting het up from a wronged scot perspective. :D For one thing i'm also a bit english too and slightly irish so i don't feel very affected by anti-scottishness/irishness/englishness. It makes some jokes odd to hear. :D
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tickle I was away, Fri 6 Nov 2015, 21:20,
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I'm going to concede the point
but linking words often does change the meaning of the individual words, which I think is the point I was trying to make. A popular homophobic phrase around here is 'arse bandit', horrible when put together but calling someone simply an arse, or a bandit, then the meaning is completely different and generally acceptable.
At least, I think that is what I'm trying to say, but I'm probably just digging a deeper hole.
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TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Fri 6 Nov 2015, 23:03,
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