RE: FN-FORUM OT Monitor burn

date posted 12th September 2002 15:28

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% [EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of Tam Stone
% Sent: 12 September 2002 14:47
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% As for comparing it to 'nigger' or 'bitch' thats different again. The
% word Irishman isn't a derogitory phrase on its own (or shouldn't be).

No, but the words 'Soft Mick' bloody are.

% I think people are so court up on

'caught up with', you mean

% the fact everything must be
% politically correct they start reading racism/sexism/agism etc into
% everything.

I love the way some people can dismiss almost anything offensive
by claiming opposition is 'political correctness'. The word being
objected to wasn't 'Irishman', it was 'Mick'.

Dunno where the feck you come from, but down here on earth it's
derogatory and always has been.

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