Isn’t it nice to know that if someone is overheard calling you a silly name, and you are not bothered or insulted, that there are thousands of other people to get offended on your behalf…? in fact, complete strangers will don their cloaks of sanctimony and wade right into your personal business almost pushing you aside in the process.
Strictly Come Dancing’s Anton Du Beke did a really silly thing in telling his half Morroccan/half Indian partner, Laila Rouass, that she looked “like a paki” after she had been to a tanning salon (kind of an odd thing to do given her naturally olive complexion anyway…) to deepen her skin colour for the show. Apparently she was momentarily annoyed but Anton apologised, she accepted and that should have been that.
But no, some pedantic little eavesdropper overheard and, voila, you have the latest racist row!
I think it is a load of rubbish and it should never have been allowed to get this far, it was between Anton and Laila and not the rest of the population. In my opinion there is nothing insulting about being compared to a Pakistani person…is there Laila? if I was Pakistani I would be offended that SHE was offended, and that the rest of the WORLD is offended that being told you look Pakistani is a derogatory thing to say…
Get a grip folks. this was one silly word, it is not an act of racism – if you want to complain about REAL racism then talk to some South Africans, or some African-Americans who live in certain parts of America. Talk to Koreans and Muslims in China – and if you want to really jump up and down in anger then read about the fate of albino Africans in Africa…it will really make you sick.
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