You’re right.
I really shouldn’t have continued, but convinced myself that since Marley hadn’t specifically mentioned the “paki” phrase I could do so without violating the rules.
That was obnoxious and disrespectful to Marley so let me apologize to him and the rest.
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. It’s simply more common in the UK than in the US for very obvious reasons. Obviously many people argue that neither word is a racial slur and reasonable people could argue the case for paki being a racial slur and an insult is stronger than that of nigger since many blacks regularly refer to each other as niggers and do so affectionately while, by contrast, few if any “pakis” refer to each other as “pakis”. In fact, it’s very possible most uses of the term “nigger” in the US are not intended as insults while the same is very much not true regarding the term “Paki” in either the UK or India.
I recognize you meant no offense and I take none, but just as a black person would probably ask you to rephrase your post from “there will be no discussion over whether or not nigger is an insult” to “there will be no further discussion over the use of the term nigger” I’d request that you rephrase your post to “there will be no further discussion over the use of the term Paki.”