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This is despite Yorkshire County Cricket Club's admission that Azeem was the victim of racial harassment and bullying.
 
I don't think I have any idea what the slur in question is. If anyone wants to DM it to me? I admit my curiosity is getting the better of me and I'd hate for it to be a word like the one you guys use for cigarettes (I.E., I don't want to accidentally use a slur I don't know is a slur in the UK).
 
It's Paki.

The wilfully disingenuous will say it's no different to "Brit" or "Aussie" but it obviously is. In the 80s and early/mid 90s it was shorthand for anyone of subcontinental descent, and not in a nice way.

Anyone saying that now is a cunt, it's very simple.
 
Probably because of my age and where I grew up, I'm not sure there's a word that makes me angrier to hear than that word. In no reality is it 'banter' for a white person to say that to a south Asian person.
 
Cheers, Dan (and the three who DM'd me).

Imagine the closest analogue over here is the response you'd get by calling anyone who looks Latino/Latina "Mexican". Anywho, glad it's not a word I'd likely stumble into without meaning to.
 
I've worked on teams largely made up of people of Asian descent for most of my life, there's been a lot of banter in that time but if ever that word had been used I'd expect the person using it to be sacked immediately. It crosses a line and is totally unacceptable.
 
Cheers, Dan (and the three who DM'd me).

Imagine the closest analogue over here is the response you'd get by calling anyone who looks Latino/Latina "Mexican". Anywho, glad it's not a word I'd likely stumble into without meaning to.
Your example seems to be one of ignorance/lack of education. Using the term Dan is describing isn't that, it's to be downright insulting. The connotation being that the person is inferior.

Was very casually used when I was a kid, only really done so these days by the like minded to each other
 
Cheers, Dan (and the three who DM'd me).

Imagine the closest analogue over here is the response you'd get by calling anyone who looks Latino/Latina "Mexican". Anywho, glad it's not a word I'd likely stumble into without meaning to.
Not really. "Mexican" isn't insulting to actual Mexicans.

The P-word is universally insulting and used exclusively by racists.
 
Your example seems to be one of ignorance/lack of education. Using the term Dan is describing isn't that, it's to be downright insulting. The connotation being that the person is inferior.

Was very casually used when I was a kid, only really done so these days by the like minded to each other
Bizarre as it is, I'd very much liken "Mexican" as a slur over here given what it means to the average American. It is used as a term to illustrate illegality, laziness, etc, all the stereotypes associated. People are generally smart enough to avoid the S word ("Spick", if you're curious), so unfortunately the legitimate nationality has become a stand-in.

In a very real sense, to call someone "Mexican" in the United States is to say that they "don't belong here".

Sad state of affairs, and, like I said, not really a one-to-one comparison.
 
Be curious to hear DWF's thoughts as he lives much closer to the border than I do. He probably has good perspective on it.
 
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