Prince Harry in Hot Water Over Remarks

What purpose do the royals serve, exactly? Besides a boon for tourism? Just asking.

Prince Harry was recorded making controversial remarks and the British media choked back their hypocrisy long enough to climb upon their soapbox and condemn him, further encouraging the cult of victimhood.

The prince is heard in the video referring to his friend Ahmed Khan as "our little Paki friend."

Maybe it is a slur; here I thought it was for the PAKI in Pakistan. Like how BRIT signals British, AUSSIE means Austrialian, TURK means Turkish. Forgive me that I find irony in how the same people who militantly refer to Harry as "The Ginger" in the British press (the use of the sobriquet is prolific) are the ones fanning the flames of offense. 

Harry's heard in another video joking with another friend and telling him that he looks like a "raghead."

OK. Here's the deal. I find terms that make other ethnicities uncomfortable to be offensive. That applies to calling Americas "gringos" and Jews "pigs." I personally don't engage in it, but I also don't give most complaints a shred of validity because these rules are arbitrary and those who police them are inconsistent. What sort of message does it send to a kid growing up who sees himself as the butt of every joke for his appearance but is lectured by those same outlets on the virtues of desensitizing political correctness?

This isn't a case of political correctness - it's a case of people picking on those who are the easiest on which to pick. It's tolerated when those targets don't fight back. You can still be a bigot without attacking Muslims, blacks, and homosexuals. It should be common knowledge that bigotry sucks.

Sure, Harry should know better as a public figure. You like the money, the martinis, the nightclubs and exotic vacations with your girlfriend? You have to walk a line to get all of that. That means don't videotape yourself talking about the color of your pubes and making remarks that you wouldn't say in public because OF COURSE someone you trust will sell the footage to a gossip outlet for five figures. I don't disagree that he should've (and did) apologize for his "raghead" remark.

However, the British media also owes an apology. The people holding placards painted with slurs owe an apology. The people who make fun of gingers, blacks, fat people, gringos, homosexuals, midgets, Mexicans, religious people, atheists, Mormons, Scientologists, hippies, blondes, liberals, conservatives, all need to issue apologies as well. If we're going to act holier than thou, we need to do it right.

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