Tuesday, January 13, 2009

PM backs Harry, so do I - Grow Up Hypocrites!

NVDL: |Er...Harry has been in Lesotho - a country some people have never heard of - helping those impoverished people. That's a damn sight more than some anonymous purists pointing the finger at him and chiming: 'Racist' have ever done.
I was in the Air Force, and we all went to school. We all know what goes on amongst a bunch of guys who have to endure not the most pleasant circumstances - the sort of bad jokes and things said in extremely bad taste by non-famous comedians.
I challenge any person to swear that they have never uttered a swear word or made racist remarks.
As I've maintained a million times, a racist remark said in anger, or irony, or sarcasm, or tasteless witticism (a la David Bullard) doesn't make someone a racist. Real racists are very easy to identify. Their vitriol is obvious on a daily basis. The way they treat the people they discriminate against is also quite obvious. Name-calling is a dead give-away.
Anyway, since when was the world innocent? Look at what is happening in the Middle East right now?
Newspapers etc who make money selling salacious stories of how 'guilty' and 'racist' some people are when they reflect some of the ordinary sentiments echoed at times by all of us is in very bad taste. It's hypocrisy. Jeepers - grow up!
clipped from news.yahoo.com
British PM backs Harry after racist remark

LONDON (AFP) –
Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Monday that the British public would give Prince Harry the "benefit of the doubt" over his home movie showing him calling army colleagues "Paki" and "raghead."


Brown said the 24-year-old royal, who is third in line to the throne, knew his language was unacceptable and his apology was sincere.


But the father of the Pakistani soldier who Harry called "our little Paki friend" said he could not accept the prince's apology, insisting that he should say sorry to the Islamabad government.


The News of the World newspaper on Sunday published the video clips made by Harry in 2006 while he was an army officer cadet.


"The sincerity of his apology cannot be doubted," Brown told GMTV television.

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