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Care to clarify?

• warent 8y ago
  They're old racist terms against Welsh and Romani people
  • barking 8y ago
    I've read the Welsh being described as loquacious, dissemblers, immoral liars, stunted, bigoted, dark, ugly, pugnacious little trolls, but I cannot confirm its truth or otherwise.
    • warent 8y ago
      What a repugnant and confused comment.
    • sctb 8y ago
      Please don't post troll comments here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
      • barking 8y ago
        The insults against the Welsh in that post are rather notorious being from a column in the Sunday Times by the late A.A. Gill. A complaint about them was thrown out by the Commission for Racial Equality. Not everyone, but many people in the UK view insults against the other nations of the UK as banter, a wind-up probably because we're all part of the same greater in-group.
  • matt_the_bass 8y ago
    Oh! I never knew that. But it seems obvious now that you point this out.