Chinky - Racist/Offensive?

[Arnold Layne]

marts always been bitter as his Dad gets more pussy than him

[Jacques]

Threadjack: Mr Arnold Sir, are you familiar with dimeadozen? There is some serious amounts of live Floydery on there.

[Hell Kitten]

>Isn't that technically correct?
>I mean, I have once heard that the "-stan" suffix means country, so Pakistan >is technically the country of the Pakis, Uzbekistan the country of the Uzbeks >etc.

I think Pakistani is the techically correct term.

[Hell Kitten]

In my opinion, yeh it pretty much depends entirly on conext and your relationship with a person.

For me, it's potentially offensive because 1. You're reducing a person to their race alone and 2. It may just be inaccurate.

[stripeysydney]

Not keen then, Mart?

[Arnold Layne]

"It wasn't you, but (I may be wrong) I got the impression from another post that I am supposed to be someone else - I can assure you that I have always posted here under some combination of WZRIP"

I'm not with you Warren, do elaborate?

[c.j.jaxxon]

I agree to the upteenth degree! !teacher!

[c.j.jaxxon]

I don't know if he's a racist because I don't know him but I wouldn't address anybody by an even slightly derogatory name. I wouldn't call a chinese person "chinky", (we in the states say "chinks" not me though) a white person "whitey", and I wouldn't want nobody to call me "blacky". People DO deserve respect unless they don't show you any. If he called me "boss" I wouldn't see that as namecalling. I liken it to being called "sir", "bro", "homes" or "homie".

[mart]

Typical response. Not very likely to be true though since my father is dead.

Mart