Yeah, but, here's the thing:
It's a racist word here.
You now know that.
You should just apologise instead of trying to justify it.
There's no great freedom of speech issue here.
( Zuowan, Wed 18 May 2011, 13:18, 4 replies)

well said, that man.

( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Wed 18 May 2011, 13:24, closed)

He
didn't say there was a big issue, in fact he said "you live and learn", and went on to say in the comments that he never says it any more. Get a brain moran.
(Hippo_of_Doom, Wed 18 May 2011, 15:05, closed)

are you calling zuowan a moran?
dylan? diana? WHICH IS IT?
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Wed 18 May 2011, 15:11, closed)

It takes something special to use only four words to call me an idiot and manage to get both the spelling and the punctuation wrong.

( Zuowan, Wed 18 May 2011, 16:05, closed)

Amen, Hippo
I think, depending on who you've replied to.
(posage As I turned the corner I felt muscular and compact, Wed 18 May 2011, 15:13, closed)

In fact, he said
"I told them I was talking about a cricket match on the weekend, rather than some sort of adhoc racial violence, and tried to explain that the word was in common use in australia [...]each time I mentioned the word 'Paki', they gave a cringing look like I'd just flung a turd on the table in front of them"

Which, judging by the implied repeated use of the word when he has already been told it is offensive in this country, suggests that Zuowan is being perfectly reasonable and doesn't deserve to be abused by someone that can't even spell 'moron'.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Wed 18 May 2011, 15:34, closed)

I don't know, we all deserve a bit of abuse from time to time.

( Zuowan, Wed 18 May 2011, 16:00, closed)

That's true you cunt.
Just not for that you didn't.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Wed 18 May 2011, 16:05, closed)

I'm not sure he was trying to justify what he said.
Explain it, perhaps. Defend it, even. But neither of those amounts to an attempt at justification.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 18 May 2011, 15:47, closed)

I would posit that explaining + defending = something not dissimilar to "attempting to justify" but we should probably take it to the OED rather than bore people with bickering over semantics.

( Zuowan, Wed 18 May 2011, 16:07, closed)

Everyone should shut the fuck up
be nice and never try to work out where things went wrong?

A plumber accidentally hits a pipe because he wasn't told it was there. He fixes it and finishes the job. The next time a plumber comes along, he hits the same pipe.

Now I know that if an ozzie in my company says "Paki" then they're not necessarily being racist, and I can explain to them why it isn't used here.
( clockworkrat has nice pants, Thu 19 May 2011, 11:44, closed)