Ritchie's shopkeeper claimed the word "P..." that I now can't even write for his own, because he was from Pakistan, proud of it, and proud of his standing in a small community. Pakistan is about to win The World Cup and bugger the Barmy Army. Hoofkuicingray!
Gay people, like me, have reclaimed the word QUEER. You can't hurt us with it. "P..." should be worn with pride, and if you're from India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka or anywhere else, you would be within your rights to point out the ill-educated user needs a lesson not only in racial stereotyping, but also geography and is therefore as thick as the proverbial. And of course there'll still be "P...-bashing" as there's still some queer-bashing, but the only hope is for enough of us to stand with discriminated against minorities that it is the bashers, discriminators and slurrers who run away lookin' like the turds they are.
It's good that Yorkshire are looking like arses, but we also have to give them room to change. Things are changing, but they will only really change when, unlike Snoots school-experience, enough of us as adults or children feel able to step forward and stop it ourselves. (By the way I'm not blaming Snoots for not stepping-up alone. Back then all he'd have done was found out how it feels to have the shit kicked out you!)
Gay people, like me, have reclaimed the word QUEER. You can't hurt us with it. "P..." should be worn with pride, and if you're from India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka or anywhere else, you would be within your rights to point out the ill-educated user needs a lesson not only in racial stereotyping, but also geography and is therefore as thick as the proverbial. And of course there'll still be "P...-bashing" as there's still some queer-bashing, but the only hope is for enough of us to stand with discriminated against minorities that it is the bashers, discriminators and slurrers who run away lookin' like the turds they are.
It's good that Yorkshire are looking like arses, but we also have to give them room to change. Things are changing, but they will only really change when, unlike Snoots school-experience, enough of us as adults or children feel able to step forward and stop it ourselves. (By the way I'm not blaming Snoots for not stepping-up alone. Back then all he'd have done was found out how it feels to have the shit kicked out you!)