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The Trouble With Prince Harry
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The Trouble With Prince Harry |
01/11/09
B/c the last time I checked...Pakistani wasn't a race and they are considered to be white.
So, I don't get the whole idea of people calling him racist.
Was he being ignorant? Yes.
Racist? NO.
01/12/09
Are you sure you know where Pakistan is?
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Yeah, that's totally the same thing.
01/11/09
I think I would despise the royal family if I were British. Even if they pay taxes now (do they?) they live off of British taxpayers' money and have for years. I especially hate that fake Greek Philip. Listen up, Mountbatten - your family was chosen to rule Greece. IT DOESN'T MAKE YOU GREEK. Twat waffle.
01/11/09
I watched the video this morning and my main thoughts were:
1) oh, Harry's voice is much deeper than I expected.
2) Wow, he seems verrrrry not bright.
3) Ew (to the "paki" and "raghead" comments
3) Don't make fun of your granny!
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Well, one of them is known as 'the heir' and the other is known as 'the spare'. So.
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I don't mean that as a snide attack or anything, just that there's something I find difficult to put my finger on and spell out precisely. It's just curious.
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What always puzzles me about them is why we Americans bow and curtsy to them and accept titles from them when we really aren't supposed to because they aren't our royalty.
01/11/09
@Tart of Darkness: That's my point exactly! Why do so many people fall for the PR?
01/11/09
However, Harry knows better. I make a lot of racial jokes too, amongst my crowd of black, white, asian and mixed folks it's just the norm. But we are not in the position he is in. He has been raised, from birth (unlike his tragic, sad mother), knowing what to do and when. He DOES know better, he just chose not to act on what he knows. Which is a serious problem in a 25 year old man. He is not a kid anymore, and needs to face real consequences.
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The Prime Minister meets with the Queen *every week*. Which has bugger all to do with democracy.
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HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA.
Why doesn't anyone talk about the fact that it's not like Prince Harry probably introduced this language into the army barracks? That most soldiers (from most countries!) talk like this about their enemies? That they say all sorts of charming things about gays and women as well?
Oh, wait, that would mean actual long-term structural change in the way we think about other cultures rather than one-off efforts to feel better about ourselves by claiming Harry's more racist than the rest of 'em.
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Which is like a douchey frat boy to the 3rd power. That's like the trifecta of douchiness.
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I know we are all suppose to be so post-modern extra. But for people who are closely tied to the history many times these post modern anti-PC jokes just aren't funny, espcially coming from those who held positions of power historically. I don't know what gets more power than the freaking British monarchy. If this guy really did feel offended maybe he didn't feel free to say so. I know it took me a while to get the balls on the trip mentioned above to say something.
01/11/09
I am also sorry that the white male student didn't say something because it sounds like he's a racist jerk, too.
In the Cal State U system your prof's behavior and remarks would be actionable as harassment even before you said something. If he went on after you said something that would be even worse on his part.
I'm getting worked up about this because I'm so sick of it. I went to college right after high school in 1972 and it was like a big boys' club. How is it that in 2008 there are more female student than male students and in some colleges there are more non-white students than white students and yet white males are still acting like frat boys from the '30s?
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He never gave an excuse. He just apologised...
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I hate the fact we have a royal family. We should let them go, run free! Leave 'em alone so they can have the dumb conversations they want to have with the people they want to talk to, and we don't have to get our knickers in a twist because they're racist/rich/out of touch.
The sooner we stop pretending that a bunch of aristocrats are somehow representative of our nation, the better for both us and them.
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