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katie price n word outrage

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  • #102
    JayRoc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭JayRoc


    Crea wrote: »
    He has autism, intellectual delay and is blind. He is almost 15 with the intellectual development of a much younger child. He needs to be protected from social media, especially since his mother has publicly stated that she would have aborted him if she has known about his disabilities. The N word is the least of his problems.

    Fair enough. I took the post to say that because he was blind, the only way he would know what was on social media would be by having it read to him, which is obviously false. Every blind person I know accesses social media without anyone's assistance.


  • #103
    Will I Am Not
    Registered Users Posts: 3,496 ✭✭✭Will I Am Not


    please helpThank YOU wrote: »
    Katie Who?.

    Price. It's there in the title.


  • #104
    Murrisk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 889 ✭✭✭Murrisk


    Crea wrote: »
    He has autism, intellectual delay and is blind. He is almost 15 with the intellectual development of a much younger child. He needs to be protected from social media, especially since his mother has publicly stated that she would have aborted him if she has known about his disabilities. The N word is the least of his problems.

    +1


  • #105
    Samaris
    Registered Users Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭Samaris


    Sounds like a non-story. The twaddocks who would hound a disabled kid on social media because they don't like his mother (who is, imo, an obnoxious woman, but that's no excuse) should be shamed for it.

    Assuming there isn't a whole lot more to the story, I don't see any issue with her using the word that's being used against her disabled son to describe the abuse sent his way. Only issue I can see with it is breaking watershed rules, assuming it is counted in with swearing and general "inappropriate language" for day-time TV.


  • #106
    .........
    Closed Accounts Posts: 624 ✭✭✭.........


    Parchment wrote: »
    She was repeating what was said to her son. PC police on patrol again.

    Left wing intolerance is every bit as hypocritical and intolerant as right wing intolerance.


  • #107
    lukesmom
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    Is negro a bad word too???


  • #108
    Dublin Pintman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 109 ✭✭Dublin Pintman


    What gets me is that 'people of colour' = good but 'coloured people' = disgusting racism.

    When did this happen?


  • #109
    The_Captain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,376 ✭✭✭The_Captain


    I'm going to pretend I don't know who she is because I think this makes me better than people for some reason


  • #110
    Murrisk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 889 ✭✭✭Murrisk


    lukesmom wrote: »
    Is negro a bad word too???

    My OH and I were pondering this recently. I thought it didn't really have the bite of the N word and is much like using Caucasian. He reckons people would react to it negatively too.
    Dublin Pintman wrote: »
    What gets me is that 'people of colour' = good but 'coloured people' = disgusting racism.

    When did this happen?

    It's a weird one alright. I think that people consider the former more distinguished or something?


  • #111
    southstar
    Registered Users Posts: 465 ✭✭southstar


    Murrisk wrote: »
    Of course pushing her kids into the spotlight is to further her career. That's without question. Most people seem sympathetic to her in this case but I doubt many would try to argue that she isn't fame-hungry. She is nakedly so. Pun intended. My thinking is that shielding your children is more important than fame. The people trolling Harvey are arseholes but a key role for parents is protect them as much as the possible, not put them in the firing line of said arseholes. I'm surprised that people don't see that she has played a part in Harvey getting this unwanted attention.

    Why of course "pushing her kids into the media spotlight is to further her career"?? You know her motives ? Its also that ironic that you criticize another poster for hyperbole a tactic you use liberally to defend your cynicism("fame hungry"...oh and nakedly so").Without knowing the story one might conclude from your comments that her son was nothing at all to do with it when if fact he's central to it and this issues about shielding him is disingenuous.Id like to think he'd be proud of his mother for this.


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  • #112
    elefant
    Registered Users Posts: 4,672 ✭✭✭elefant


    This might sound like a stupid question, and I feel a bit stupid asking it, but is there a logical reason why it's always wrong for a non-black person to use the N word?

    I can't really think of any other word where, even in jest, it would be considered totally wrong for one person to say a word, and fine for someone else.


  • #113
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    lukesmom wrote: »
    Is negro a bad word too???

    Negro is most certainly an archaic term and Id be almost sure it would offend at least a majority of black people


  • #114
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    elefant wrote: »
    This might sound like a stupid question, and I feel a bit stupid asking it, but is there a logical reason why it's always wrong for a non-black person to use the N word?

    I can't really think of any other word where, even in jest, it would be considered totally wrong for one person to say a word, and fine for someone else.

    fagg!t is a very comparable term
    Gay people don't really use the term '******' much but obviously its more okay for them to use it than a straight person using it


  • #115
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    southstar wrote: »
    Why of course "pushing her kids into the media spotlight is to further her career"?? You know her motives ? Its also that ironic that you criticize another poster for hyperbole a tactic you use liberally to defend your cynicism("fame hungry"...oh and nakedly so").Without knowing the story one might conclude from your comments that her son was nothing at all to do with it when if fact he's central to it and this issues about shielding him is disingenuous.Id like to think he'd be proud of his mother for this.

    She came out yesterday or today to state that she left her 9 year old daughter in the airport because she didn't realise that her passport had expired/didn't have enough time left on it to get a visa while she and the rest of her family went to the Bahamas. Then had her put on a plane alone the following day. Talking shyte about her kids on Loose Women seems to be her new career.


  • #116
    southstar
    Registered Users Posts: 465 ✭✭southstar


    wakka12 wrote: »
    fagg!t is a very comparable term
    Gay people don't really use the term '******' much but obviously its more okay for them to use it than a straight person using it

    The terms ******, ****** etc are indeed offensive but are used ironically by these groups to take the sting out of them....they are used in a political sense as a mark of defiance.Notice how we use the word Paddy( or Mick in the US)nowadays...it packs hardly any punch at all compared to the pejorative sense in which it was employed in Britian in years past.


  • #117
    southstar
    Registered Users Posts: 465 ✭✭southstar


    wakka12 wrote: »
    fagg!t is a very comparable term
    Gay people don't really use the term '******' much but obviously its more okay for them to use it than a straight person using it
    weldoninhio wrote: »
    She came out yesterday or today to state that she left her 9 year old daughter in the airport because she didn't realise that her passport had expired/didn't have enough time left on it to get a visa while she and the rest of her family went to the Bahamas. Then had her put on a plane alone the following day. Talking shyte about her kids on Loose Women seems to be her new career.

    By the way what sort of shyte do ye watch on the TV anyway...it'll fry your brains.


  • #118
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    southstar wrote: »
    By the way what sort of shyte do ye watch on the TV anyway...it'll fry your brains.

    I saw a link on a friends facebook. I work during the day.


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