Who exactly has he offended here? The rhyme dates back from the days when nigger was used to describe a colour of brown, my grandmother told me before she died that when she was young the local furniture shop had a sofa in the window advertised as such.

its total hypocrisy how black people can use this word in music and comedy but white people can't even think it.

Bollocks is it. The word has obvious pejorative connotations. Why would anyone want to use a word that is outright racially offensive unless they were being racially offensive.

See, Trooper can call me a honky because he is also white. If he was a black person I would have killed his entire family.

See, Trooper can call me a honky because he is also white. If he was a black person I would have killed his entire family.

I find it hard to believe that you don't get that a white person using a racial epithet to describe a black person and a black person using the same epithet to describe another black person has a significant difference in how it would be taken.

Don't be an idiot. You don't get to decide what a group of people are or aren't allowed to be offended by.

It never started as an insult and was never meant to be one. The PC brigade has took an old fashioned word and made such a fuss that it’s something that black and white people have no idea what to do with it.

Black people sit pissing themselves laughing at Chris Rock so they have no cause to take offense at the word. You can’t have it both ways.

If you put black or white in front of any standard insult if far more offensive that honky or nigger

I... just... what?

There things such as Black History Month, the Society of Black Lawyers, etc.

I think they would be more than a tiny bit annoyed if you rocked up and said, "Ah hello, it's Nigger History Month! Any of you nigger lawyers want to tell me anything about nigger history?"

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What is slope?

I've just heard it on Radio 4, and his subsequent appology. And I think here there is nothing to answer. He was not trying to hide anything, he wanted to be edgy and skirt around saying nigger, but when he realised it could be possbile to interrupt what he said as nigger, he decided not to use it.

The context is also key here. I surveyed my kids and when they do/did it in the playground they used the word spider, I am sure when I was a kid the word was squirrel, He could just as easily have done "ip dip sky blue..." However I suspect that enie meenie is more well known, and then there is the humor aspect of suggesting a swear word without actually saying it.

I think the slope stuff was far more offensive!

Malc

Ip dip sky blue? Wtf?
"Ip dip penny chip" round here, or the more usual "ippy dippy dation, my operation, how many people at the station"

Ip dip sky blue? Wtf?
"Ip dip penny chip" round here, or the more usual "ippy dippy dation, my operation, how many people at the station"

What?

Eenie Meenie macaraca dare di dominaca, chica lacka lolly popper om pom push, out.

Obviously.

or...

Ip dip dog shit fucking bastard stupid git you are not it.

If you played with the 'other' kids.

What the heck is that mess?

I didn't actually notice that when I watched it.

I mean, there say a slope on the bridge.

Next time he should say "It's on the piss".

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