Do you consider the term 'throwing a paddy' to be a racist slur?

ScumLord · 04-09-2007 12:34PM

I don't mind being called Paddy I am a paddy and I'm sure the English don't mind being called dirty tan bastards.

ejmaztec · 04-09-2007 01:10PM

B-K-DzR wrote:

Differences in what way? Its obvious that English people are typically born in England or to English parents and vice versa, i assume you mean on a more genetic level however?

I'm just waiting for "Axer's" English/Irish easy-spotting guide, so that I can test it when I'm out and about, at the same time trying not not to get a good kicking.

ScumLord wrote:

I don't mind being called Paddy I am a paddy and I'm sure the English don't mind being called dirty tan bastards.

They would only understand "dirty bastards" and wouldn't know what "tan" was. They would probably consider you to be prejudiced towards people who spend time on a defective sun-bed.

04-09-2007 01:19PM

With reference to racist terms, does anyone consider "Brits" to be offensive to British people when used in the way it is often used by people on boards when referring to all things British.

axer · 04-09-2007 01:51PM

ejmaztec wrote:

One of my daughters was on a college trip to Paris with her pals. They asked a Frenchman for directions. He called them English Mother-f***ers and carried on walking.

I recently asked an old "English" lady what part of England she was from. She told me - Kilkenny. As she had left Ireland at the age of 16, her Irish accent had disappeared.

Perhaps you can enlighten me as to the difference between an Irish and an English person.

I think you misunderstood me. I agree that you could not spot the difference physically but that does not mean someone cannot be racist against a nationality when they know the nationality of the person in question. People that work with the person will know etc.

According to UN International Conventions, "the term "racial discrimination" shall mean any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life."

Rob_l · 04-09-2007 02:06PM

The UN define racism discrimination as

"the term "racial discrimination" shall mean any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life."

so yes referring to irish people or people of irish descent as "paddys" is racism

Fratton Fred · 04-09-2007 02:18PM

ScumLord wrote:

I don't mind being called Paddy I am a paddy and I'm sure the English don't mind being called dirty tan bastards.

If that's what you want to call us, fine. But then that would mean you would be fine with being called a Dirty Paddy bastard rather than just Paddy.

ejmaztec · 04-09-2007 02:56PM

It always amazes me that there can be some much trouble between the same people who are only separated by an imaginary line or a bit of water. We haven't come far in a few thousand years, that's for sure.

Ickle Magoo · 04-09-2007 03:15PM

Deleted User wrote:

With reference to racist terms, does anyone consider "Brits" to be offensive to British people when used in the way it is often used by people on boards when referring to all things British.

I don't really mind being called British, well, I do & I don't tbh. I'm Scottish & think of myself as such & I think it's a bit churlish to get offended when I'm called a Brit, that's what my passport says afterall, the Scots vote against independence - but when ever I'm asked my nationality, I never answer with "Brittish", kwim?

...On the other hand threads that start out with "BRITS are yada, yada, yada"..."The UK is yada, yada, yada..." which are obviously meant to be anti-English and then decends into the typical anti-English comments are every bit as ignorant & irritating to the Welsh, Scots & the majority of N. Irish as anything said by a "Brit" to or about the Irish! :mad::)

Dyr · 04-09-2007 03:23PM

ejmaztec wrote:

It always amazes me that there can be some much trouble between the same people who are only separated by an imaginary line or a bit of water or....

800 years of OPRESSIONS!!!

ejmaztec · 04-09-2007 03:40PM

Bambi wrote:

800 years of OPRESSIONS!!!

Followed by over 80 years of DEPRESSION :rolleyes:

04-09-2007 03:40PM

Bambi wrote:

800 years of OPRESSIONS!!!

Here we go again! down that same old path! the one that's as well worn as the grand canyon.:rolleyes:

Oriel · 04-09-2007 03:49PM

Pighead wrote:

Pighead would have thought that 'throwing a Maddy' would be a more fitting term to describe somebody who was losing it.

Got there before me!

Dyr · 04-09-2007 03:52PM

Deleted User wrote:

Here we go again! down that same old path! the one that's as well worn as the grand canyon.:rolleyes:

*makes obligatory well worn/grand canyon quip regarding Yorema*

Do you consider the term 'throwing a paddy' to be a racist slur?

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