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Now the Muslin youths are associating with each other and everything! This shocking revelation comes along with news that a British royal said something racist once (?!?!?!). Thank you to Wonkette operative Sandra for the tip. [AP]
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Does this mean that American/British Muslin manufacturers are conspiring through their domestic youth groups to violate WTO import/export limits? This is an outrage!
Now just a cotton-pickin’ minute…
But, really, the Gingham Association is far more dangerous. And you REALLY have to watch out for the quilters.
I just don’t cotton to these muslins.
“british” -that would be a full-bred muslin, yes?
Didn’t Harry once dress as a Nazi on Halloween or was that William?
Sheesh, people–voting for Nobama has only galvanized the Muslin underground. The PUMAS aren’t stupid, bro.
For extra historical meta points, Prince Harry really should have said this while wearing his hilarious Nazi Halloween costume.
Cashmere is fighting words.
finallyhappy: that was Harry. http://www.bloggerheads.com/images/prince_harry_nazi.jpg
Otto Reimer: While fondling a cardboard Hilary. With Joker makeup on.
This heralds the downfall of the British Empire. …oh, wait
Aside: Are the Royals more or less expensive than big corp CEOs? Must investigate.
Who knew that stereotypes can be insulting?
Oh my bad, stereotypes are only for non-white furriner types…
Unlike say if one had the view that all Royals are overbred dumbass toffs with intelligence of under cooked blood pudding or that all Fundy Christers are anti-book/gay/evolution dumbass freaks or that all Repugs are fiscally retarded kid touching chickenshit preverts (sic) who can’t manage a lemonade stand.
It’s not racist until he calls them “a bunch of bloody wogs.” while waving a gin and tonic hither and fro.
Harry isn’t going to pull the wool over MY eyes, nosiree!
This in addition to the external attacks on religion itself from committed satinists. Surely we will not survive this thread counted threat.
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
I think we all now know the truth; the designer of the QWERTY keyboard was a Muslim. Only a member of the Mohammaden hoards would think of something so devious as to put the “n” before the “m” key, leading to typos that would diminish the reputations of those trying to warn us of the Islamic menace.
Well played, Mr. el-QWERTY, well played.
What? all he said was “my Paki friend”? And this was a few years ago when that was socially acceptable. Its just like saying HUSSAIN nobabma’s CERTIFICATES OF LIVE BRITH saying he is a NEGROIDAL - that that was acceptable language back then.
And he said FRIEND. It’s like I know I’m not a racialist because I’m used to work with a black guy, and I didn’t even TRY to lynch him.
Then again Harry is known to dress up as a Nazi for fancy-dress parties.
Gopherit: I object to your racist invocation of “fro.”
British royalty is kind of a reversed-out Palin family: a bunch of useless twerps given wealth by accident. The mystery is why the Brits want to keep financing these spectacles.
V572625694:
It’s gud to bring in them tourists, gov’ner.
I think it’s sort of sweet and old-fashioned that Britan still has public figures who might have “shame”.
Bruno: he called people ragheads, too, but I am sure he meant it in the best, most friendly way.
4tehlulz: It’s the Islanic menace.
It’s the half-breed muslins that are the REAL troublemakers.
It’s nice to see that Middle Eastern youths who have relocated to Great Britain bring their great ethnic fabric heritage with them.
And I guess Prince Harry prefers good ol’ British wool. Kind of itchy, I would think, but perhaps that’s why those Brits (oops ethnic slur alert) have developed stiff upper lips.
Of course, I prefer not to have any callouses on my upper lips, but that’s another story.
Bruno: I can’t tell if you’re serious or not that it was “socially acceptable” for Harry to have called someone his Paki friend a couple of years ago. In case you are, however, I’d like to take issue with your claim. Calling someone a Paki in the UK is considered offensive and has been for as long as Harry has been alive, although the media and culture at large are trying to be more sensitive about it now than they have been in the past. The word first began appearing in the UK as an epithet for any person of South Asian descent, whether Indian, Pakistani, or Bangladeshi, in the early 1960s.
The BBC has a brief article about the etymology of the word here: http://tiny.cc/jNAjM
If that doesn’t convince you, I’d then like to point you towards, for example, the 2002 movie Bend it like Beckham, wherein the daughter of an orthodox Sikh family takes serious offense at being called a Paki. Harry made his comment in 2006, four years after Bend it like Beckham was released. Yes, “Paki” was in common usage in 2002 and 2006 - and indeed, remains so today - but that doesn’t mean it is now or ever has been “acceptable language back then.”
We can argue till the cows come home about whether intent matters when using racially-charged epithets, but the fact of the matter is, Harry used one at a time when it was commonly considered gross and offensive.
What’s more, Harry’s exact phrase was “our little Paki friend,” which is both racist and blatantly condescending to his friend and fellow soldier. Harry was, at the time, an officer cadet. http://tiny.cc/MM04t
http://www.examiner.com/x-504-Space-News-Examiner~y2008m12d17-Celebrate-Wright-Brothers-Day-105-years-from-Kitty-Hawk-to-Mars–beyond
“…the brothers pushed and pulled their awkward home-built contraption made out of wood, muslin, and metal…”
Spirochete: Everything and nothing is “socially acceptable” in the Wonkette Empire.
Doglessliberal: See, the rags were made of muslin. That explains everything.
Methinks Harry has been spending too much time at the knee of wacky Grandpa Phil, a man who is pretty sure the 1930s were the glory days of the Empire and that Hitler was definately on to something.
populucious: The little princeling sounds just like Gramps. And he looks more like Hewitt every day.
My alternative theory is that Harry was actually visiting Massachusetts at the time and was referring to his friend who went to pick up a six-pack at the local “paki,” which as all native-born Massachusetts folk know is short for “package store.”
Harry is a member of the royal family. He can say “raghead” and “Paki” all he wants. You people are just jealous. Don’t you wish you were Saxe-Coburg-Gothas, too? Of course you do.
Spirochete: Nigga, pleeze…
It’s true your basic royal does condescending rascism much more graciously than you or me. Or perphaps he just meant to say ‘perky’. ‘My perky friend’. Or perhaps he was simultaneously thinking of margarine (or wood flooring) as in ‘my parquet friend’
4tehlulz: “the designer of the QWERTY keyboard was a Muslim.”
That’s why true Americans like me use the Dvorak keyboard layout. No chance of typing N when you meant M. They are not even on the same row.
they went on their way, riding their unicorns, and the star they had seen in the east went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the man-child was. When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. On coming to the whitehouse, they saw the man-child with his wife Michelle, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and of incense and of muslin.
Do any of the Royals *not* espouse stupid ideas? Even the Queen and her son are ga-ga over homeopathy and plenty of other ideas for morons.
Spirochete: He was being sarcastic.
England is just a big royalty-theme park but this sort of stuff really dilutes the brand. The queen should bring back jousting so Harry can get some positive attention.
Spirochete: So you’re saying I shouldn’t wander around Bradford with a “I hate my little Paki friend” billboard, like Bruce Willis in Harlem?