Harry's Paki-Stand -- Offensive?

So Prince Harry has apologized for the whole thing about calling someone a "Paki" and saying someone else looked "like a raghead."

So here's the deal. The video -- obtained by News of the World -- was shot in 2006 while Dirty Harry was in the army. And the army is just a rougher way of life, where things are said that wouldn't be tolerated elsewhere.

On the other hand, Harry has a history. Remember that whole "I-think-I'll-dress-as-a-Nazi-soldier" thing when he went to that party back in 2005?

So, do we forgive him?



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16. Good point, Houston.
This business about how evil white people are and how wonderful everyone else is has to stop.
It's total b.s.

Posted at 1:06PM on Jan 11th 2009 by Newname

17. This is why men in the US, UK and the world have grown Manginas. When you speak the truth, you have to apologize? If he feels that way, he feels that way and no way should you have to apologize. What you really should apologize to is if Dirty Harry runs the kingdom. As I've told my mates in the U.K., he a George W. Bush type who'll run the UK into ground just like GW did and you see how life in the US is. So to all you people with "delicate sensibilities", when someone hurts your little feelings and that itches your brain personally, please feel free to scratch it with a barrel of a 357 next to your right temple. You'll be doing me and the world a huge favor.

Posted at 1:55PM on Jan 11th 2009 by CriticXtreme

18. How exactly would Harry run the "kingdom" into the ground?
He would have almost no say so in goverment even if he were to be king.
It's a symbolic title, at best.
I agree with the rest of your statement, though.
People need to take their white guilt and shove it.

Posted at 1:57PM on Jan 11th 2009 by Newname

19. I'm sorry, but those words are equivalent to the "N" word in the US. How is that not racist?
Please people.. grow up get out of your ignorant egocentric world.

Posted at 2:07PM on Jan 11th 2009 by kayla

20. There's nothing eogcentric about this.
If a black person was caught on tape referring to white people as crackers, there wouldn't have been anywhere near the uproar. It's the obvious hypocrisy of the situation that is bothersome...not to mention stupid.

Posted at 2:19PM on Jan 11th 2009 by Newname

21. 10. I think people need to get thicker skins.
Then again, I'm quite sure muslims NEVER make racist comments, right?
Get over it.

Posted at 12:07PM on Jan 11th 2009 by Newname

I agree with you #10!! Everyone at some point in their lives say something that's gonna offend another person. You cannot please everyone!! I wish everyone would STFU and stop complaining about being called names!! Y'all sound like a bunch of cry babies alway's wanting an apology! Even if you get one...you know deep down you are not gonna forgive that person. It's about making the one who said the comment look like an @ss next to others and getting attention! I for one am not gonna say i'm sorry to one person who deserves a negative comment. U act violent and push your religion and views onto others and murder and steal like those freaks in the sand pit...U deserve every bad comment from others. Hmm my opinion!!

Posted at 2:20PM on Jan 11th 2009 by OWell

22. He's not twelve years old. He's quite old enough to know that everything he does and says is likely to be broadcast around the world eventually, and that anybody around him might sell the story to the tabloids or write a book...

Once you could chalk up to juvenile idiocy, hard though it is to believe he didn't figure out that Nazi uniform would cause a lot of justifiable turmoil (I would have known better at half his age). Twice - not. He does have a pattern and it will continue to cause his family and his country grief. With great privilege comes great responsibility, whether he likes it or not.

Let him resign all the perks of royalty if he really wants to freely speak any idiotic thought that pops into his head. He is able to live a rich lifestyle because he's a royal and expected to represent doing whatever royals are supposed to do, which definitely does not include calling anybody racist epithets and he knows it. He and his family wouldn't have any of the benefits otherwise -- without the generations of royalty behind him, he would have had a very ordinary education, lived in a tiny apartment, been raised on fish and chips, been allowed to drop out of school if he was wasting everybody's time, and then would have to find a real job on his own merits. If he joined the army, he wouldn't just get to play soldier for a little while so he could keep his illusions intact about the glamor of war. Decisions, decisions.

Posted at 2:36PM on Jan 11th 2009 by jwoolman

23. omg he was not being blooming racist it was just a remark about a work colleague & he called him his friend
lighten up will you
all of you who keep your head in the sand & only pop out when we are not being PC these days

Posted at 2:37PM on Jan 11th 2009 by karen (UK)

24. Gee, most of the putz jerks that post on TMZ sit on their couches stuffing their fat yaps mouthing off about those people who do something with their lives. Frankly, this whole story is driven by the British PC Police of Fleet Street. These leeches don't have anything else to do but sniff the soiled underwear of the rich & famous.

He's not a racist and leave the dude alone. Hey Harry, your mother was going to move to the USA because of these ink-stained leeches, so should you. Screw 'em.

Posted at 2:42PM on Jan 11th 2009 by Truth Detective

25. ONCE i agree with tmz. the language in the army is rough... and leave him alone. the nazi uniform was over the top.

news of the world is a really trashy paper. they published britney's sex tape story which turned out to be untrue. furthermore they were sucessfully sued by formula 1 man mosley.
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/motor/formula1/2008-07-24-mosley-lawsuit_N.htm

it's a really, really bad tabloid.

Posted at 2:47PM on Jan 11th 2009 by me

26. Nothing wrong with calling terrorists "ragheads" in my book. What is the difference between that and calling slimy white people "whitetrash"? I am sure the majority of the residents of the Middle East are decent people, however, you have a crazy minority group of nut cases out there highlighting the worst of humankind. Raghead is being nice. I guess we are supposed to do what the main stream media does and downplay what they do by calling them "insurgents", "freedom fighters"; basically every other name under the sun except by what they are: terrorists.

Posted at 3:06PM on Jan 11th 2009 by Mariah

27. Yes he's racist. The people posting that he's not racist ARE racist. Even if he had killed someone while calling them a racist slur, they'd still vote/say that he's not racist.

Posted at 3:08PM on Jan 11th 2009 by Philo

28. #13 raj

clean up your own country's backward Class system in India, first before you go attacking Britain's. How nice you now have Call Centers there, but how awful you still have a lower class that are slaves to the upper class...India now has the worlds largest middle class----have they taken on the traits of the upper class ahead of them and the cruelty to lower classes?

India is a terrible country. Your police cant even protect the people---we watched them cower to the Pakistani terrorists instead of protecting their own. At least in Britain and the US we will shoot back. Is it any wonder you have made your home there now instead of India Raj?

Why do your people have a dot in the middle of their heads and then no one in your country ever explains why to other people not from India? Then you all get mad and act surprised when someone refers to you as dotheads? What are we supposed to say, you've never seen a man or woman in your own country with a mark on their forehead? Quit acting all high and mighty when you're not.

Posted at 3:21PM on Jan 11th 2009 by Theres a Dot on my Head..why?

29. He comes from a long line of racists. Just check out some of the ludicrous statements made by Prince Philip, they're easy to Google. Also, the Royal House of Windsor is a German royal house (formerly Hanover, it was changed during WWI) and made up of nothing but bigoted in-breds. Prince Philip is Greek. The only 'British' member of that sorry excuse for a family was the Queen Mum.

And for the record Harry, you git, India was known as 'the Jewel in the Crown' and made the British Empire what it was. I hope you went and thanked some brown people during the three-year interim since this episode of verbal diarrhea of yours.

Posted at 9:41PM on Jan 12th 2009 by Baholicious

30. OMG!!!

Posted at 5:02PM on Jan 12th 2009 by St pooch

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