Bastardisation of the East: Paediatricians = paedos?

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Paediatricians = paedos?

Today's Daily Mail contains the headline 'Conservative Council embroiled in race row after discovery of document labelling schoolchildren 'Pakis' '

Pretty depressing, though at least the Mail had the discipline to report this astonishing piece of stupidity. Let's see if its notoriously sheep-like readers can be pure and whiter than white for the day, just like their favourite paper. At 21:30 today four comments posted in response to this story had reached over 100 approvals by fellow readers on the Mail website's YouTube-styled ratings system:

Where I live I am called a "Brit", short for British. Am I screaming "Racism?" No I am not. Stop making trouble where there is none.
james, dubai, uae +155

Paki is no worse than Brit.
Joe O'Neill, Pretoria,South Africa +148

Pakis, Brits, Scots, what's the difference?
Chris, Yorkshire +120

For Gods sake. get over it!!
Adam, London +116

Oh.

The Mail can claim that these moronic viewpoints don't reflect its views with the usual disclaimers, but the notice above the comments clearly reads "The comments below have been moderated in advance". I would hate to see what filth doesn't make it past the censors. In fact, there is still some of this sentiment lingering from Prince Harry's unfortunate bit of banter in January, as this semi-literate clutter demonstrates:

same as calling British citizens Brits; Canadians Canuks; Americans Yanks......
- j hodgins, edmonton, canada +1421

If someone calls me a Brit, short for British,can I make a big stink about racism? Its gone too far, leave the lad alone.
- Janet S, Sale, Cheshire +1341

It is simply an abreviation of Pakistan. I was born in Britain and do not take offence at being called a Brit!
- Malcolm Burn, Newcastle +1223

My my, what a stoical bunch. It's too easy to insult this pitiful, misguided swarm of cockroaches -cocks for short - so I'll just wish them a lifetime of candle-lit dinners and ham sandwiches.

¶ posted by the leech at 8/26/2009

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