[Ads-l] translation requested of redacted racist insult

[Dan Goncharoff]

I assume "paki", which is used disparagingly to refer to anyone from the
subcontinent, or looks like it.

On Sun, Nov 7, 2021, 1:41 PM Mark Mandel <markamandel at gmail.com> wrote:

> The story, by Shamim Chowdhury, describes conflicts at Yorkshire County
> Cricket Club where this word for years was used to a Zimbabwean teammate
> and passed off as "banter".  Chowdhury recalls her own experiences with it
> from as early as age five.  The article cites the word only as "p***". It
> begins
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> I knew I was a “p***” at the age of five. I was standing alone in the
> school playground, bewildered and anxious, my eyes flitting this way and
> that, searching for a friend. “Who’s that p***?” a boy asked loudly as he
> eyed me up and down in disdain. His friends sniggered.
>
> It was the first time I’d heard the word but I knew instantly that it
> referred to something terrible – and that terrible thing was me. The boy
> had spat it out, his tone sneering and contemptuous. It broke me.
>
> For years afterwards, it became a reference point for how others defined me
> and, consequently, how I came to see myself. When it came to picking teams
> for sports matches, I was the last to be chosen because I was a p***; when
> we went on a school trip to Dorset I was put in a room where there was a
> double bed. The white girls refused to share it with me because I was a
> p***. And so it was that I learnt of my place in the world order.
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> LINKED ARTICLES:
> *The Telegraph*
> Exclusive: Yorkshire consider releasing Azeem Rafiq racism report by
> Wednesday
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> https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-yorkshire-consider-releasing-azeem-164250559.html
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> *Independent*
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> Yorkshire racism scandal finally forces those in power to feel the heat
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> https://news.yahoo.com/yorkshire-racism-scandal-finally-forces-094333683.html
> >
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> Mark Mandel
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> Aka Dr. Whom
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: *[a friend]*
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> Do you have any idea of what p*** is as a four letter word?
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> I’ve been called a ‘p***’ all my life. Racial slurs are never just ‘banter’
> <https://news.yahoo.com/ve-called-p-life-racial-112524818.html>
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> I’ve been called a ‘p***’ all my life. Racial slurs are never just ‘banter’
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> Gary Ballance and Yorkshire cricket have not demonstrated any appreciation
> of the degree of trauma Azeem Rafiq h...
> <https://news.yahoo.com/ve-called-p-life-racial-112524818.html>
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> https://news.yahoo.com/ve-called-p-life-racial-112524818.html
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