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Matildas captain Sam Kerr charged over alleged racially aggravated harassment of police officer (www.abc.net.au)
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[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 1 points 8 months ago

Why would Paki be racist here?

It’s like how in America ‘Jap’ is racist, whereas here ‘Nip’ is racist. Both are short hands for the country name Japan/Nihon(Nippon).

Or the British turning Ning-Nong/Nig-Nog into their version of the n word because some politician used it as such in the 60s or something, whereas here we shortened it to nong and it’s kept its original meaning of a foolish person.

It’s the cultural history behind the words that make them racist and just because we speak dialects of English doesn’t mean our words have followed the same trajectories.