[Ads-l] translation requested of redacted racist insult

[Ben Zimmer]

Confirmed:
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/nov/03/azeem-rafiq-to-give-evidence-in-parliament-over-yorkshire-racism-allegations-cricket

On Sun, Nov 7, 2021 at 3:45 PM Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> > >>>>>
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > <<<<<
> > LINKED ARTICLES:
> > *The Telegraph*
> > Exclusive: Yorkshire consider releasing Azeem Rafiq racism report by
> > Wednesday
> > <
> >
> >
> https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-yorkshire-consider-releasing-azeem-164250559.html
> > >
> >
> > *Independent*
> >
> > Yorkshire racism scandal finally forces those in power to feel the heat
> > <
> >
> >
> https://news.yahoo.com/yorkshire-racism-scandal-finally-forces-094333683.html
> > >
> >
> > Mark Mandel
> >
> > Aka Dr. Whom
> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> > From: *[a friend]*
> >
> > Do you have any idea of what p*** is as a four letter word?
> >
> > 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>
> >
> > I’ve been called a ‘p***’ all my life. Racial slurs are never just
> ‘banter’
> >
> > 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>
> >
> >
> > https://news.yahoo.com/ve-called-p-life-racial-112524818.html
> >
>

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