I can't get my head around people saying it's normal and everyday for people to use racist language and find racist - and sexist etc - jokes 'funny'.
In what world is that normal and everyday in 2025? Anybody who doesn't know that words like the p word or the n word are deeply offensive needs to get out more.
And anyone who thinks it's funny to insist on using words like that although they know they are deeply offensive is making a statement about who they are and what their values are.
Let me tell you a story about an older working class woman, a neighbour of my aunt and uncle, who would have grown up only hearing the kind of words that aren't acceptable now.
I used to go to the shops for her, 'do the messages' as we say here, when I visited my aunt and uncle. You can give a date to this story because there had been a catastrophic earthquake, rather than floods, in Pakistan. Tens of thousands of people died.
When she gave me her shopping list, she asked me to pop in to a shop on the way which was run by Pakistani people.
She asked me to find out if their families back home were all right, and to tell them that she was remembering them in her prayers every night.
She wasn't anybody special, just an old working class Dublin woman who had probably left school at 14 and had worked every day of her life from teens to retirement.
Her instinctive reaction to thousands of people dying in Pakistan was to pray for them, not to tell jokes. She recognized their humanity rather than their comedic value.
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