Virendra
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Use of the term 'Paki' is not encouraged here and mods have time and again iterated that stand cautioning people against it. It is being done to respect (regardless of Indian opinion) the views that this is a slur.It's hard for me to talk to people who won't even address me with civility or lose the basic norms of a polite discussion. It's just one of those things where I draw the line and choose not to respond. I'm aggressive in my discussions, but not a badtameez fella. I can't resort to comment on anyone's parents' breeding habits as others have decided to do for me, nor can I respond to racial slurs like "Paki", nor "Mian", nor "uddin". It's not so much that the members are doing it, its just that this no reprimand policy of the management can't stand.
I mean the arguments I got from the management is that they don't consider Paki to be offensive, hence a globally accepted racial slur is okay. I mean what stops someone from referring to each other as "Kuttay ke bachay" next? After all a Kuttay ka bacha is a puppy and that's not offensive, rather cute.
I mean when you want to hide behind ridiculous childish semantics of insults, its just hard to envision yourself ever becoming part of a community where you will engage in lengthy debates. Something has to give, and I'm sure as hell not about to give anyone the right to insult me.
But you cannot catch every keyboard; and slander loving trolls are there on both sides of the border. You can watch the comments below YouTube videos, they are extremely gross sometimes
By the way my understanding is that 'Paki' means belonging to Pakistan .. like Indie or Indo mean relating to India .. Brit means pertaining to Britain.
I don't know how it compares to "Kutte ke Bachay" .. I mean Kutta is for Dog, an Animal and Pakistan is a country so ......
Regards,
Virendra