Bagpuss Had It Right

[Beebo]

I reckon it was the one that contained the words 'Oiligarchs' and 'Emirates overlords'.

That’s very low level banter 101.
Can’t we at least refer to them a Chelski and the Dirty Arabs? 😀

 

[Mr Celine]

... Arabs? 😀

Now I'm really confused. What have Dundee United got to do with this thread?

 

[markemark]

Racism is toxic and should be stamped out in all contexts. The only thing worse than racism? The French.

 

[Threevok]

It just goes to show I know nothing about football - I thought Man United were being managed by 10 Hags

 

[wiggydiggy]

Wording and how we perceive them is different to everyone, at work we had a talk not so long ago about Inclusion/Language and it turned out the phrase "Scrum Master"* can be perceived as offensive due to the it's association with slavery, and some colleagues from India also said they found the term offensive due their countries colonial history with the UK.

Another site (Github) stopped using the terms Master/Slave, and Google now lists "blocklist" and "allowlist" instead of
"terms such as 'blacklist' and 'whitelist' [which] reinforce the notion that black=bad and white=good."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53050955

I think laguague is constantly evolving and though I wouldn't pretend to be a liguistics expert, I'm certainly casually interested it it.

*Scrum Master is a role in IT Development

 

[vickster]

Has anyone actually worked out what post caused the initial offence?
The mods have stated it wasn’t the Hun comment.

League table post and comment about Welsh Wordle. OP is Welsh.
someone linked it above I think

 

[matticus]

League table post and comment about Welsh Wordle. OP is Welsh.
someone linked it above I think

Do you know this for sure? (I only know what I read in this thread)

I won't link to it again (fanning the flames etc), but I thgouth the Wordle joke was the funniest thing in 100 pages on that thread. Have plenty of welsh friends, love the Welsh language, don't see any offence intended there, nor harm.

 

[T4tomo]

both posts the welsh wordle joke and reference to protestant scottish football teams as huns have been removed from the thread.

 

[mjr]

Have plenty of welsh friends, love the Welsh language, don't see any offence intended there, nor harm.

Now substitute whatever race you like for "Welsh" and consider if you'd still say that these days, or if it sounds like a 70s throwback!

 

[vickster]

Do you know this for sure? (I only know what I read in this thread)

I won't link to it again (fanning the flames etc), but I thgouth the Wordle joke was the funniest thing in 100 pages on that thread. Have plenty of welsh friends, love the Welsh language, don't see any offence intended there, nor harm.

How would I know for sure, the OP neglected to actually say!

 

[matticus]

Now substitute whatever race you like for "Welsh" and consider if you'd still say that these days, or if it sounds like a 70s throwback!

pffft.

Plenty of jokes around about the differences between languages. They're not always denigrating.
Plenty of jokes about how crap Brits are at foreign languages - they ARE denigrating, but there's truth there, so again, pfft! And back at ya.

 

[Threevok]

Speaking as a Welshman, I can honestly say I have never been racially insulted by anyone

Except when someone calls me English

 

[matticus]

How would I know for sure, the OP neglected to actually say!

'sok, I was just looking for clarity! As the posts have - indeed - been removed (), it looks like you hit the nail on the head.

Pointless language policing IMO, but I don't get to make the decisions, and it brightened my day, so ... 🤷‍♂️ ...

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Out of interest - what is the nationality of Bagpuss?

The real one not the flounced one.

 

[Threevok]

Out of interest - what is the nationality of Bagpuss?

The real one not the flounced one.

He always struck me as Russian