V8Granite wrote: ↑Sun May 09, 2021 7:54 am
Generally when you want to insult someone you are demeaning them in some way though no?
Not trying to be a picky tit I genuinely see no racism in what Broccers said and I spend half my life surrounded by people of all races. If it is something that has passed me by then fair enough but I simply don’t see it.
Dave!
Yes, all insults are necessarily demeaning, but one generally chooses the insult for it's specific implications. If you call someone a prick or an arsehole, there is the general implication of mean-spirited intent. If you call someone a twat or a fanny, there is the general implication of idiocy or incompetence. If you choose an insult that has an implication of being less that full human, and you're delivering it to someone whose ethnic group has a history of being called less than human, you either mean that very specifically, or possess the kind of catastrophic insensitivity that sits at the heart of middle england casual racism.
Context is everything. If I call you a big nose twat, that's a general insult on your intelligence and appearance. If I use the same insult of a jewish person, it comes with all the baggage of 100 years of anti-semitism.