If this isn't simply ignored, then I'm betting on a Luis Suarez type defence...
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@PhilosophyExp Yeah, not to mention that defence would be inconsistent with 'intent is not magic' (a slogan I really hate btw).
@NotungSchwert and mixed with people for whom, "Paki-bashing", as it was called, was done for fun. The early 80s were messy in the UK.
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@PhilosophyExp Yeah, just before my time really. 'Paki' was the ultimate racial slur in my childhood though - I remember that. -
@NotungSchwert@PhilosophyExp Think Rod Liddle's usage of "black savages". The term black isn't racist but it is in that context. -
@Humanisticus@NotungSchwert That was the bizarre thing about the Luis Saurez "defence". Regardless of cultural stuff, he was identifying -
@PhilosophyExp@humanisticus@notungschwert Maybe FTB won't care about this, I don't think the word packs the same punch in the US. -
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@PhilosophyExp@NotungSchwert It was still used an insult though, there is no getting around this.
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