Why was Prince Philip allowed to keep saying offensive things?

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There are so many examples of Philip saying offensive things such as:

"If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed." This was said to a group of students during a royal visit to China.

"If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?" This was said in response to calls to ban guns after the Dunblane incident.

"It looks as if it was put in by an Indian." This was Philip talking about a fuse box in a factory.

There are so many more examples. Why was he allowed to act this way whilst representing the Royal Family? I like a laugh, I can take a joke, but he was so often just really offensive.

It's laughable quite frankly.

Just to reassure you-I have been to school and I’ve read a lot of books and I’m not stupid. And <whispers> it wasn’t me who reported you.

Re the "Indian" comment he made, regardless of whether he meant cowboy or not, a public apology was made by the Palace, so he didn't simply get away with things he said.

Why is that ageism? He was an old man. No one was arsed when he was saying shit as a young man was he? Or was he even saying it then?

I cannot understand the comments denying that now-offensive language was generally accepted and widely used by (ime) the majority.
I grew up in late 70s/80s, and at Sunday school we were singing Jesus Loves Me, with the "big Filipino, wee Chinese" lyrics and doing actions.

Offensive to who

Where the hell did you go to church. I thought my church was bad in those days but we had nothing like that. Wow!

well, Philip has certainly given us all a laugh from beyond the grave. Some of the comments on here are hilarious - especially from @Diamond7272 and her history GCSE questions about Idi Amin who hasn’t been spoken about in polite society for decades.

I am getting cancelled more times than the Duke of Edinburgh.

Shall we mention the ex Duke of York? Too soon???

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Revisit your “Have you ever met any older people” post.

Haven't RTFT but there's no doubt Phil was not the 'legend of banter' alleged and promoted by his dutiful grandson Harold.

What I would quite like to know is why such a relentlessly tainted individual was able to pick up well in excess of £300k of taxpayers money every year even after he retired.

Isn't there a building company (in London, I think) ran by people of Indian heritage whose logo is 'You've had the cowboys, now try the Indians'😂

I agree. This is the issue we have. People have more than you see on the surface. Observers do not bother looking beneath said surface.

People just see what they want to see.

You don't seem to understand that they were considered offensive by LESS people then would be outraged now.

Just as you, and many others, don't understand the difference between LESS and fewer, but I won't scream at you.

You mean the actions or the lyrics?
I'm assuming the actions. The lyrics were standard at the time. There was also something about an Indian boy with his bow and arrow.

😂

That's awful. My friend's NDN is also and he had that and still gets it in the pub from adult men. He's also been called Hong Kong Phooey.

Unacceptable. Obviously.

But I struggle how we can link that term to the late Prince Philip. I don't think Hong Kong phoey or ming the merciless were on his radar really...

I think this kind of racism derived more from after school TV, rather than children hanging on every word of a chap in his 70s with a couple of press secretaries in tow, the ambassador who liked Ferrero rocher and a depressed corgi or two...

Are we still trying to pin the man as one of the greatest racists in UK history????

Who influenced generations of young minds...???

Who's next to be cancelled? Father Christmas? The Easter Bunny? Florence Nightingale? Mother Theresa? Ant and Dec? Ant or Dec? Cilla Black? The Krankies? The dodgy teletubby (green one) with the Ann summers aerial?

Night all. Especially OP. I await censorship in the morning.

Just quickly..

I'm getting confused by ming the merciless and maximus the merciful... Did Prince Philip inspire them or did they inspire prince Philip?

Is there more to life?

He didn’t say what everyone else was thinking.

Well yes.

He was surrounded by enablers who knew their place. He never came across to me as a man who would have been willing to listen to anyone's opinion of his speech or attitudes.

He was extremely good natured. He always took the time to have a friendly chat with the lowliest person. His blunt wit often shone a light on hypocrisy precisely because he didn’t bother about social mores and so-called offence.

Thank God you went to bed. You will feel better in the morning.

Is there more to life?

Probably not for you. You seem to be stuck at GCSE history.