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Japfest 2015

This is not a wind up or a racist slur, before any do -gooders or the pc self gratification brigade call for my head.
Neither is it anything to do with our team or any of our players.
As i was driving back from Northampton the other day, i saw this on an advertising poster for Rockingham raceway.
It is an event taking place this weekend at Rockingham raceway celebrating japanese cars etc.
What does this tell us, should the organisers be in trouble?
Who knows, it just shows how certain elements in society take pleasure in
creating a problem where there may not really be one
Vardy behaved badly, but if there are words we cant use, where does it all stop.
What sad and inconsistant times we live in..

posted on 16/8/15

comment by arrothefoxinoz (U8567)
posted 25 seconds ago
My mate Issei said no he's not offended by being called a J@p and doesn't think it's racist. If he gets called a Chink or a g@@k or any other word to describe an Asian not of Japanese origin, then yes he deems that racist because someone is too ignorant to acknowledge where he's from. He is a J@p.
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Why can't you read the statement from show racism the red card and the link I've just put up?

posted on 16/8/15

Well I know at least one, the only one I've asked so far and he's not offended by it.

posted on 16/8/15

comment by arrothefoxinoz (U8567)
posted 43 seconds ago
Well I know at least one, the only one I've asked so far and he's not offended by it.
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Oh well that settles it then. Don't bother educating yourself on what others think

posted on 16/8/15

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posted on 16/8/15

comment by Cal Neva (U11544)
posted 13 seconds ago
comment by arrothefoxinoz (U8567)
posted 29 seconds ago
Well I know at least one, the only one I've asked so far and he's not offended by it.
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He wasn't being ranted at in public by Vardy though was he you idiot.
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This.

posted on 16/8/15

Maybe some are offended just like I don't like being called a p@m. I'm sure others don't care because they probably don't really understand it. But I'm not a p@m and none of my ancestors were criminals,

I had a great uncle sent here and abused as a child migrant by the very people that would have been using the word p@m as a derogatory slur, the same as Abo!

posted on 16/8/15

I'm done for the night and probably for some time on this forum. Just gob smacked by not only some of the ignorance on here, but also the people trying every way they can to justify and excuse Vardys behaviour.

I stopped posting after people on this board referred to malky mackays comments as banter. This isn't much better

posted on 16/8/15

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posted on 16/8/15

The guy was a J@p you fool.

posted on 16/8/15

I'm not excusing Vardy's behaviour but it was more ignorance than anything else in my opinion. He's clearly not racist. Some people just don't know which words can and can't be used anymore.

I can call my mates from Japan J@ps because I'm not racist and they obviously don't deem it to be a racial slur when I've used it but I'm not alone, we always used J@p for short and nobody ever had a problem with it. So is it the word that's racist or the way it's used?

The original use of the word P@ki was to describe people from Pakistan, it then got used to describe everyone else. I wouldn't ever use that word unless I'm joking around with my Indian or Pakistani mates and I have quite a few.

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