Why do people here like to use the term Paki so much?

[shinobi]

Re: Why do people here like to use the term Paki so much?

@sweet_taboo

Unrealistic..

Ban it all you want, the more taboo/illegal it becomes the more thrill racist people will get from using it.

Do you think these people who hate you and want to insult you will have any regard for laws or your feelings?

Do you not know that we Pakis/Muslims are hated that much that even if we so much as breathe too loudly in this country it makes the headlines in papers like Daily Express and everyone starts barking?

If we complained about the word “Paki” they will simply have another stick to beat us with: "look the mean mean Pakiz/Mozlems want to infringe upon our freedom of speech ", in this country a man gets thrown in jail for denying the holocaust because it’s anti-semitic (freedom of speech doesn’t matter here) but being anti-Paki/Muslim is fine, and I’m afraid that’s just the way things are, we’ll have to learn to live with it.

I know exactly how much we are hated, st, please don’t make presumptions - I’m not a kid, you know.

Although it is unrealistic to completely ban a word, at least that word can be driven underground. For example, Ali G, an act played by Oxbridge educated Jewish comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, used the word ‘paki’ on his show but would NEVER be allowed to use the word ‘nigger.’ That is an example of hypocrisy and I agree with your example of Anti-Jewish sentiments being clamped down on.

Sadly, we Pakistanis have no real power in Western society. We don’t have any figureheads with credibility amongst the white people or their own communities. The few politically involved Pakistanis in the UK are there simply to massage the figures with regards to representation of minorities, most of them just lick their white masters’ boots. I could give specific examples but this is not the time or the place.

I hate the word, am against Pakistanis using it, and if black Americans are willing to try and stop usage of the N word, that is a good example for us to follow. Again, I know a word can never truly be banished from society, BUT it would be good if they (meaning whites and blacks including Indians) never had the cheek to use it publicly again- just in the privacy of their own homes.