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  Poor oul Prince Harry is in the wars again. No not the fighting shooting wars but the tabloid wars.
  
  While making his own video and doing his own voice over, he clearly called another soldier his "little Paki friend". The result all over the media today, all the newspapers, the televison channels, the international papers and so on is... uproar. The Ministry of Defence are appalled, as is the Palace. The Army are shocked and have issued a statement etc etc.
  
  But this is madness. While I know we should not use remarks that are offensive to other races and cultures, nevertheless in this case Harry clearly uses the term without any kind of malice. Its almost in affectionate terms for one of his fellow officers, one of his friends.
  
  Of course the term Paki can be used in an offensive way by yobs, skinheads and what have you, but in this case it is easy to see the difference.
  
  Up to very recently people throughout the length and breadth of the nation spoke like this anyway. It wasnt just the bad few. They still speak like this in the shires, so a certain amount of hypocrisy is on display here...especially by the tabloids( dont make me laugh!).
  
  True a certain amount of political correctness is called for so that we can all go about our daily lives in some kind of harmony but is this an excessive case of over reaction?

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