Prince Harry isn’t a Nazi… he’s just a bit racist
January 11th, 2009 at 00:33
Despite questions over Prince Harry’s paternity, it looks as though nurture has triumphed over nature as the breaking news right now is that he’s just like his grandad. The News of the World have got an excellent video of Harry proving that the royal family are still relevant in the 21st century, by showing him use the words “Paki” and “raghead” as casually as you or I might say “Ginger twat” or “Jugheaded wanker”.
The obvious defence of this – and indeed the defence already trotted out by a former soldier on the phone on Sky News – is that this is “just the sort of thing you might expect” in the army. Tory MP and probably arse Patrick Mercer was sacked for saying exactly this a while back.
Obviously the MOD has said that the language is “unacceptable in the modern army” but the soldier on the phone wrote this off as (sigh) “political correctness”. In fact, the soldier on the phone said – and this is somewhere between verbatim and paraphrasing – “when you sign up to the army, you sign up for that sort of lifestyle. If you don’t like it, get out”. Which sounds remarkably similar to what BNP supporters tend to say about coming to this country.
The implicit thing is that, er, insitutional racism is fine? I can’t possibly imagine why dehumanising other ethnicities could at all be a dangerous thing to do in, say, Iraq or Afghanistan. I’m sure all of those trained killers with their lack of GCSEs are really great at handling the cultural sensitivies and subtle nuances involved in those wars.
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