Emily has been kicked out of Big Brother for using a racist word

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Apparently she called Charley the N word in a 'joking manner' whilst they were dancing and was chucked out at 3 in the morning.

Stupid, silly naive girl

By virtue of it being used a lot does not necessarily make it ok though but that is just my oppinion.

its a vile word and she's a silly, naive little girl with no concept of real life. she thought indie music was new ffs! she lives in a bubble where being pretty and popular excuses you from being intelligent and considerate and im glad that BB has traken her out. just glad that she didnt get her crowd scene!

BB are damned if they do.. and damned if they don't. I can't believe this "scapegoat" thing.. nobody made Emily use such an offensive term. However she meant it (clearly, she was being jokey and supposedly "funny") she surely must have realised that it was NOT an appropriate term to use and there would be repercussions. I am amazed at what a silly little girl she has made of herself; particuarly as she obviously has a fairly high opinion of herself, and has plenty to say.

Of course she had to go. It's obvious.

Can you imagine the uproar if she was allowed to stay in after using a term (in any context) that has been rightly considered offensive, insulting and taboo for a good while now!?

She is clearly not as intelligent as she wanted us to take her for. It's just goes to prove a point about supposed "class". She may have been brought up with a silver spoon in her mouth but her momentary stupidity and immaturity has shown that "class" really can be quite irrelevent.

Oncebitten i was think the same thing! i am White (not that it matter) and dont understand why people would use this offensive word so freely

Absolutely crazy. The girl was clearly larking around with her new found friend. Like she says its perfectly acceptable with her black friends.

Now if it was said offensively to cause discomfort then that would of been a different matter.

my mums irish and takes offence at being called paddy!

If I'm being honest it irks me too.

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Do you think they will show it on telly tonight?

TenaLady how do you mean? That because she was larking about.. and because she has some black friends who don't mind her saying it... that the whole country should accept her using such a term????? Why on earth would they do that?

Tena so if you do something for a "lark" thats ok is it - Stealing a car beating someone up using offensive language its ok if its a lark!?????

maybe her black friends do take offence but dont want to cause a scene. or dont understand the real origins of the word!

The only person I call paddy is one of my best friends - I wouldn't dream of using it outside that context!

Thats reassuring to hear Taylorsm, mhamai, thelittlesoildersm,tnogu... thought the world had gone mad

It's a dreadful, totally unacceptable word to use.

It goes back to the days of the slave trade and, just as then, is used freely by people who do not see black people on an equal footing.

[in my opinion ]

No, the BBC said it won't be shown. Interestingly as an aside, a few years back I met a guy from Durban, South Africa and was surprised that he told me that as he was neither black or white, that he preferred to be referred to as brown. It taught me to not make assumptions. I would have thought Emily would have had the sense not to make this comment, I don't think she was being overtly racist, maybe grossly naive and immature but certainly not racist. FGS she thought indie music was new. Agree with Shiny's post re damned if you do, damned if you don't.

[I'm talking about the 'n' word obviously]

I'm toooo sloooow at typing

I can see that the term "paddy" would be offensive, because even though it doesn't have quite the same connotations as "ngger, it is the same in that it segregates and more to the point "belittles" a whole culture of people - when people (and I sometimes think this is a little known fact!! ) are all the same!

Surely the word is only offensive if put into context. She didnt use it in the sense it was meant all those years ago. (what does it mean, can anyone remember?)

My posts pop up when the discussion has moved on and they just seem and are so out of context

Apologies

Don't worry forty, jeez I tell paddy jokes albeit bad ones but just saying it does rub the wrong way a bit if coming from outside the Isle. A bit territorial us Irish!

Ah just post any T!

I think at the end of the day using language like that on TV, whether as a joke, deliberately, or as a one man attempt to reclaim a particular word, is very stupid at any time, nevermind given the climate on channel 4 at the moment, and she deserved to be chucked out.

Anyway I mean.

[but then no one reads them anyway, so I'm ok really ]