Ricky Gervais in Twitter 'mong' row - Yahoo! TV UK

I actually applaud Gervais for standing his ground on this because I think politically correct cunts in the media are all too ready to pull anyone down for any lexical peculiarity that one might indulge themselves in. 'Mong' to me is not upsetting. Neither should Chinese people be upset by 'chinky'. Nor me by being old 'big nose'.

Any lexical term can be offensive to another person, so why do we need to adhere to all these silly media created word limitations when in reality we should be able to be as free as we like. My only beef is when you call someone a racist when they have never uttered words like 'nigger', but even then, maybe those terms should be acceptable when people of colour even use such terms amongst themselves. Words are just words. 'Piggy' at school is abused by being called piggy, but nobody is fighting in his corner.

It's just media created politically correct double standards IMO.

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