The Shiites of the Gobi desert are frequently offended in Ireland.

Look, I don’t want to stereotype but the Vandals were hooligans.

Interesting one about hooligan!

Paddy-wagon gets it’s name because the police in the U.S. used to pick up all the Irish drunks in them.
Also Lynch mob is called after an Irishman that hanged his own Son.

Regarding the cannibal picture, am I the only one who sees a statue of someone pleasuring themselves orally?

Yeah, I agree, there’s far too much P.C. these days, as long as racism is not intended by a word, that’s okay by me!

Look I’m all for rooting out racism and other forms of discrimination (both implicit and explicit) but I’m afraid this is a rather silly article. It’s seems to fail to take into account the fact that the meaning of words change over time and that the context in which these words were coined no longer exists. Hooligan may have been a term that was originally racist but no one understands it to have that original meaning anymore which is true for all of these words. Overtime they have become disassociated with the original lifestyle, ethnic group or culture they used to refer too and so no longer carry racist connotations. A word can only be truly be discribed as racist if it’s author and/or those who hear it understands it to be. The only one of these words that may retain it’s derogitory understanding is the term “bugger” when used referring to gay people… but even that word is losing it’s negative connotations too. I think it’s foolish to call people up on what a word used too mean particularly when no one understands it as such – except mostly linguists and historians but then they usually understand enough about the evolution of language to not take offence by them…

Imagine strolling down a city street in Ireland singing “Come out ye black n tans”. Every african and tanned person would lynch you for being racist!!

They are beyond the Pale, it would drive you Balubas.

The word Sambo is technically racist too. It was used to describe Africans who were typically used as slaves.

Very similar to this.
http://www.cracked.com/article_16967_8-racist-words-you-use-every-day.html

I gave up on political correctness when ‘they’ started over analysing Enid Blyton books for goodness sake!!! … Even Daithi Lacha wasn’t safe!!! :-(

why is it that the media have become so obsessed with racisam in recent times? not a day goes by ( no offence to bi-sexual mexicans intended) with out some jouno or ‘news reporter’ coming out with politically correct bullshit about how this word or this action is now considered racist ! don’t these idiots realise that they are in fact the ones who are stirring up racial tension? also how come all these race issues tend to fall on the side of non- white people i’ve yet to read or hear of a white person taking a case to court for ‘racial discrimination’ let alone the media or p.c. brigade support such action.

Balubas…..usually means raucous behaviour but is actually a tribe in the Congo that the Irish peacekeepers had an unpleasant encounter with in 1960.

In London they call the taxis black and some think thats racist.

I read years ago that the word Hooligan was used by the Irish against the travelling community, whose surname was Hoolihan.

Golly! Now that there’s a chink in that armour I can gaily go to bed, cos I have to get up early to work like a…. Oh yeah, starting to see it now.

Political Correctness gone mad…… What next !!!!!

Wake up world, we’re all different.. If they can’t take the heat stay out of country

Just was watching Married with Children, now a days this show would not even get aired because of the references to women and other groups. I have experience racist but not directed at me but at my kids , it’s words that would truly not be accepted anywhere . And not from Adults but from Kids most times. And with all this PC on TV and Radio its not the media who has a hand in this but the parents and what is said at home, just check out the story about that American woman who got insulted on a bus from 14 year olds for over 10 minutes!

stupid people with nothing else to do with there lives ,the world is in meltdown and this is all you can talk about.the standard of debate on here has really sunk to an all time low .

sambo means life partner in swedish. what an irony.. sambo..life partner..slave..

Must be a slow news day…