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Quick, lock up all of the Amish! |
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Wulf
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We have reached a point where, upon being called an "English bitch", the person is more offended at being called "English" than "bitch" and the former is ALSO more legally actionable. The Onion, that sound you hear is your death knell. |
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Linus
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More oppression by the English imperialists. Typical of their long and bloody history of destroying native cultures and repressing any dissent or resentment. |
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timactual
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The use of the word ’race’ do divide humans into three groups is a modern development. Even if it is not the meaning the court put on it, in the older sense ’race’ means a people related by common ancestry or heritage. Thus, the English are considered a mongrel race by the Welsh and Scots.
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Bill H
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Call a Celt a Sassenach, and what do you expect?
And you call yourself a McQ!
There are many Welsh and Scots in whose eyes "English" is a term of serious disrespect. Years ago, I learned to make sure that customers from the UK were actually English before alluding to their country as England, or to them as English: if not sure of where in the UK they were from, use the generic terms Britain and British, or UK. Scotch, Welsh, and Irish from Eire (Republic of Ireland, that is—whether Catholic or Protestant) do not like to be called English. Neither do Catholics from Northern Ireland. But Protestants from Northern Ireland don’t seem to mind (even though, historically, most are descended from Scottish emigrants)—probably a reflection of political reality in that neck of the woods.
In sum—he really was insulting her, and both of them probably did think of the ethnic portion of the insult as the worse one.
But he was right to call it PC gone mad. Or rather, prosecutors gone bad. |
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kishnevi
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Scotch !!!????
It’s "Scots" or "Scottish" ! Scotch is a drink.....
It may be that the driver was a Welsh speaker (like me), and the tattoo artist lady was not. We don’t really regard those who don’t speak Welsh as Welsh. It’s not a deliberate distinction, it’s just that, well, you have to speak English to communicate with them. They’re Welsh by name, but if you can’t discuss the Eisteddfod with them, or share any Welsh jokes with them, it’s kind of an empty label. If you really wanted to insult such a person, you’d call them English. |
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Blewyn
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It may be that the driver was a Welsh speaker (like me), and the tattoo artist lady was not. We don’t really regard those who don’t speak Welsh as Welsh. It’s not a deliberate distinction, it’s just that, well, you have to speak English to communicate with them. They’re Welsh by name, but if you can’t discuss the Eisteddfod with them, or share any Welsh jokes with them, it’s kind of an empty label. If you really wanted to insult such a person, you’d call them English.
Very interesting... But how about the point of the post, which is that YOU CAN BE IMPRISONED FOR CALLING SOMEONE A NAME?!!!!
EUnuchs. Any individual rights you once had are long gone. |
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Jeff
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"English" is a term of serious disrespect"
Yeah, but it’s NOT A RACE! |
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Written By:
Firehand
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Very interesting... But how about the point of the post, which is that YOU CAN BE IMPRISONED FOR CALLING SOMEONE A NAME?!!!! Oh do calm down...he was given a suspended sentence for ’racially aggravated disorderly conduct’, not ’calling someone a name’. The paper hasn’t detailed the disorderly conduct....just the name calling. |
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Blewyn
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