And DU Continues to Sink Lower...

[RPankn]

Fridays Child (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-01-06 06:22 PM
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1. Adorable. I wonder if they used one of their slave boy camel jocks...
...as the model for little Captain Hamad.


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[RPankn]

Here's David Allen, aka "Skinner," the site's administrator, defending the use of "camel jockey" as a "joke":

Skinner ADMIN (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-01-06 08:31 PM
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21. Context is so important.
Using the phrase "camel jocks" as a synonym for Arabs is bigotry.

Using the phrase "slave boy camel jocks" to refer to slave boy camel jocks is not bigotry.

Skinner ADMIN (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-01-06 08:40 PM
Response to Reply #22
23. The member was making a joke.
If he had made a joke and used the phrase "poor abused camel racer" nobody would have notieced and nobody would have cared. I cannot speak for him, but it seems pretty clear to me that he probably was not even thinking of the racist phrase when he made his joke. If he had been thinking of it, I suspect he would not have chosen the words he did.


Despite that at least Saudi Arabia has outlawed using children in camel races:

gulfnews.com/nation/Society/10022391.html

[Moses]

Yes. It's important to understand context. And the context of this administrators tolerance in the case of slurs against Arabs is that people are banned from his site for discussing US policy with regard to Israel, much less accidental slurs against Israelis.