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It always baffles me when people claim "Paki" is an ethnic slur when used for Pakistani citizens. Do you consider "Brit" for a British citizen to be an ethnic s
by xkyscore 6y ago
It always baffles me when people claim "Paki" is an ethnic slur when used for Pakistani citizens. Do you consider "Brit" for a British citizen to be an ethnic slur as well?
- hellofunk 6y agoDespite that you’re getting downvoted, I’m rather curious about the connotation of these words myself.
- detaro 6y agoIn the UK it's a derogatory catch-all term for anyone that vaguely looks South Asian and was initially widely publicized in the 60s/70s around "paki-bashing" (= aka "lets gang up and beat up some immigrants").
- jjgreen 6y agoA few years of hearing skinhead Nazis shouting "pakis out" will do that to a culture.
- DanBC 6y agoPeople don't push dog shit through your letter box and spray paint "pakis out" if you're white British, but they do if you're Pakistani, Indian, Bangladeshi, etc etc.
- detaro 6y agoIs "Brit" widely used in a derogatory sense when bullying or attacking British-looking people? You can't decide "slur or not" just by "is it a shortened form of a country name".
- scott_w 6y agoNo because "Brit" is never used as an ethnic slur. For a good example of P* being used in a derogatory form, watch Bend it like Beckham, where it's used against an Indian girl because of the colour of her skin.