My sister remarked on someone who said she was exaggerating when claiming some people were ganging up. 'A gang of people went down' - a gang can mean 'any amount of people on the offensive' - can't it?
Chinky is a word some use to to describe Chinese here in the UK, in some places. 'Chinky' is a description, it has no hate filled connotations or inferences whatsoever, and its use - is not much different to Jamaican patois. Will we be nicking Jamaicans for saying 'blood clot' in the wrong way? There needs to be better education among the purveyors of hate who claim to be doing the reverse. When we have such horrible things happening in the world, like people dying of fear, hunger and thirst, you'd think people would be able to define racism and understand the real thing from harmless and meaningless colloqiualisms. Lets not get Balmyard about it.
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