RE: Re: [MF:Apes] bush slur (sure)... (via /contact form)

> > It was the headline "Bush's racist slur" that set me off .
> 
> What, the *accurate* headline?
> 
> > Using the term
> > "racial" in the headline would have made it seem less personal.
> 
> What's personal about it? If we "softened" it out of 
> *personal* regard for
> Bush, *that* would have been personal. Indeed, that's what 
> you continually
> have been trying to push on me: personal considerations. 
> Perhaps you don't
> understand how bad 'Paki' is. It's closer to the Nword, as I
> understand it, especially in having been closely tied to violence and
> terror (it came from the term "paki-bashing" which was use by 
> Brits going
> out to beat up Pakistani immigrants).
> 
> Do you understand? Saying 'Pakis' can be *easily* heard by someone who
> endured or witnessed such as a green light for India to go 
> a-bashing (with
> NUKES!)
> 
> We're lucky that nothing's come from it, thus far. I hope it 
> continues.
> 
> If he had say "Japs", what would you think?
> 
> Substitute other racial slurs and imagine the results.

Is "Pakistani" a race? Perhaps if it is compared to black, hispanic,
caucasian, etc.  But when compared to "Indian" (people from India, not
Native American) I don't really percieve a racial difference there.
Perhaps using the word ETHNIC instead of RACIAL would have been more
fair.