"This was a private time between friends, in an airport,"

So as long as you only use racist slurs when black people can't hear you, it's okay. Now I understand how racism works.


It'll be interesting to see whether Harry's friend decides to take him to court over this, if he's so upset. Interestingly, Harry's mate hasn't been interviewed over this, not a word has been heard, as far as I know. Now, I'd have thought, had he been torn apart by it all, that he'd have jumped at the opportunity to make a small fortune from interviews. Nobody knows the exacts in's and out's of all this, apart from Harry and his mates.   

It is SO easy to call someone a racist. It's the new horror, isn't it. The new way to make people hate others. Hell, I've had it thrown at me many a time in here and elsewhere, by two posters. The thing I find so interesting in here though, is that one of the posters who's up in arms about what Harry said, (when it was apparently said with no malice) has used deeply malicious words to try and hurt and wound others in here, knowing full well that those words cause offence.

I don't understand the logic there. Why is their behaviour acceptable to themselves, yet Harry's is not.

It was only recently, in the English Culture thread, that I learnt from the other poster, that Sid James was Jewish and South African, and therefore apparently not allowed, from their point of view, to be part of English culture. I found this shocking and far more racist that anything Harry came out with, which again, was a term used amongst friends, in a private video, where the chap he acknowledged was a friend.

One rule for Harry.

One rule for everyone else, so it would seem.

Jack, I didn't notice you in that thread, taking that poster to task over it. Interesting. And I'd not swap places with Harry, not for one single moment, despite all the wealth and 'privilege' he has. I bet though that he'd love to swap places with me, or you, where he could simply be an ordinary person who wouldn't have been hanged drawn and quartered for saying what he did, because no-one would ever have come to hear it in the first place, or been interested.


And yes, he's a public figure, poor lad, and for that, every single time he opens his mouth, for the rest of his life, some b*stard will be there, waiting to sell their story to the newspaper about 'what Harry said and what Harry *REALLY* meant'" and how he's such a nasty, vicious little Royal oik, who should be banished from the whole of humanity...etc..etc..etc..Imagine how that must feel, no freedom whatsoever for the rest of your life, even if you give up being a prince, you'll still sell papers and that's what this is about, imo.

As I said above, had this whole incident been filmed by an ordinary soldier, no-one, but NO-ONE would have batted an eyelid or paid a small fortune for the video, or put it on their front pages. Why? Because when faced with the idea, their Editor would have said "But, there's NO story here, what the foooook are you wasting my time for?"

It's all just such crap.

Never mind though, it gives the hypocritical 'holier than thou' folks a chance to come out and say their bit, before they go back to their hypocritical spewing out of deeply unpleasant and personal comments on here, without a thought about how it affects others, whilst criticising what they perceive to be the very same thing in Harry.


kat, I come from a time before PC. I was brought up to think about others. I was brought up to be polite and respectful. I was also brought up in a time when people were able (and allowed) to laugh at themselves far more and laugh with each other. People were more trusting and saw the good in each other, rather than always looking for the bad, always feeling, as so often happens nowadays, that there is 'some ulterior motive or meaning' in what someone says or does.

Yes, PC makes people think, but it also, imo, has made many people paranoid and deeply suspicious.

We've turned into a society now fearful of saying many things, because almost every word can carry a hidden 'meaning' or 'danger' if someone is determined enough to twist or spin it to their own ends. Our 'thoughts' are no longer are own, because the moment you've said something, you are tried, found guilty and sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered by the PC brigade or the press who apparently know far better than you what your *actual* intention and meaning was.

It's scary.

I think PC has gone a long way to destroying society, rather than making it better.

Don't get me wrong, I fully agree with malicious and deeply racist comments and practices being stopped. Of course I do. But when things such as this are taken by a greedy paper, blown up out of all proportion, and used for no other reason tha, imo, to make themselves loadsa money and kick one individual they detest, because they loathe his family and what they stand for. then hell, it makes me mad.

I tell you what 'Guest Alan'...if you believe in the News of the World so much, why not ring them up and suggest ALL the extra money they've made from their story on Harry, should be used to create a 'Let's End Racist Words FOREVER' campaign....and see what they say. I don't think you'll get far, because, as I said, imo, this is NOT about racism in the slightest, from their point of view, but about the News of the World making money and kicking the Royal family. Please let me know if they DO take it up though, as I'd sure love to hear that I'm wrong.

Jim, I hear what you say, and agree in the 'wider world' but in this case, I don't think that was 'the case' at all.