# If "Paki" is acceptable to use then what other slurs are? Nigger? Spic? Homo? Jap? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 16, 2012, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-paki-is-acceptable-to-use-then-what-other-slurs-are-nigger-spic-homo-jap/628375 "2012-07-16T02:51:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 240
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-paki-is-acceptable-to-use-then-what-other-slurs-are-nigger-spic-homo-jap/628375/240 "2012-07-18T04:07:01Z")
> [@Ibn\_Warraq](#): > > Once again, I’m genuinely surprised and confused as to why you’re bothered by my using various racial slurs to demonstrate how horrible other slurs are. I’m hardly the first person to do this and I’m certainly not going to be the last. I don’t have a problem with the _tactic_. I told you pages ago that I understood what you were saying and I knew before you started this thread that “Paki” can be a racist insult. In fact that’s part of the problem: my objection is to how often you are resorting to posting lists of racial slurs. Here you’ve just recited your litany of racist words _again_ with no purpose that I can see, since you’ve used this analogy a dozen times already and almost everybody in the thread already understood it. Surely posting it again isn’t convincing anyone who doesn’t agree with you. You’ve now posted far more racial slurs than any actual racist would ever be allowed to do here. I’ll just politely but firmly suggest you quit now, having achieved your point many posts ago. > [@](#): > > In post #71, you said “since we gave truthseeker2 several other mod instructions”. I don’t see him receiving any “mod instructions” in that thread much less several. > > Would you mind linking me to the several mod instructions he’d received. I already did this. Posts #23 and #29 are mod notes. They were directed to everyone in the thread and were intended to move the discussion away from the potential racial slur and back to the actual thread topic. Of course by then, you’d already posted more racial slurs than **truthSeeker2** : > [@What is the future of Egyptian-Israeli relations?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-future-of-egyptian-israeli-relations/626173/18): > > Strange how even the educated people are blinded by islam. I was watching a youtube video showing policemen shooting dead a petty thief in karachi, a comment from a paki read - they shouldn’t have killed him. They should have chopped his hands off as per sharia.:smack: > [@What is the future of Egyptian-Israeli relations?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-future-of-egyptian-israeli-relations/626173/19): > > Are you sure it was a “paki” and not a nigger, spic, or kike? > [@What is the future of Egyptian-Israeli relations?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-future-of-egyptian-israeli-relations/626173/20): > > _Paki_ used in short for Pakistani, not in a derogatory sense.🙂 (edited) > [@What is the future of Egyptian-Israeli relations?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-future-of-egyptian-israeli-relations/626173/26): > > Racial slurs are racial slurs. > > Spic is short for hispanic and nigger comes from negro, but that hardly makes them acceptable to use unless one is doing so to make a point. > [@What is the future of Egyptian-Israeli relations?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-future-of-egyptian-israeli-relations/626173/28): > > Paki is certainly considered a racial slur in the UK. > > In Harry’s case, he clearly didn’t show any animosity and clearly thought of the man as his friend and I don’t think he was anymore racist than the average person, however that doesn’t mean that it’s not a racial slur anymore than the fact that some white people used to talk affectionately about “our niggers” meant that nigger isn’t a racial slur. > > Similarly, Jesse Jackson most certainly wasn’t an anti-Semite, but that didn’t mean that referring to New York City as “hymietown” wasn’t a racial(or ethnic for the pedants) slur. (Partial quote.) And, of course, this one in response to **tomndebb** ’s mod note (partial quote): > [@What is the future of Egyptian-Israeli relations?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-future-of-egyptian-israeli-relations/626173/30): > > My only defense is that “Paki” is used not only against “Pakistanis” but just about all South Asian Muslims, including my father, who heard it on multiple occasions in the UK, so to me seeing a poster casually referring to a “paki” is somewhat like a black poster reading another poster referring to “niggers”. > > Also, with all due respect, saying “there will be no discussion over whether or not paki is an insult” is like saying “there will be no discussion over whether or not nigger is an insult” and to me reading someone question whether or not Paki is an insult is very much like a black or Jewish person reading someone question whether or not nigger or kike are insults. > > “Paki” is just as much a racial slur and an insult as “nigger” is. I haven’t moderated you for using any of these terms and I’m not accusing you of actual prejudice, but you made your point a long time ago and it’s become excessive and distasteful. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-paki-is-acceptable-to-use-then-what-other-slurs-are-nigger-spic-homo-jap/628375)._