So Ciaran and Rebel both said the word hun was a "derogartory name for a member of the protestant/unionist community in Northern Ireland."?
From the Oxford English dictionary: Hun noun 1 a member of a warlike Asiatic nomadic people who invaded and ravaged Europe in the 4th -5th centuries. 2 informal , derogatory, a German (especially during the First and Second World Wars). (the Hun) Germans collectively. There you have it. As I said in a previous post, Rangers fans are referred to as Huns because of your rampaging nature and all the trouble your fans have caused across Europe over the years.
Bear: Aggresive mammal who roamed Europe Hun : Aggressive mammal who roamed Europe Can't call you bears now either
I have dipped in and out of this site over the years and there is one impression that I have been left with. There are some people in this site who think everything is fine as long as they are the ones setting the pace. If anyone takes umbrage at what they are doing, then they very quickly fall into dishing out abuse. The number if times you hear excuses like "it's just a joke" or "it's just the internet" wears thin very quickly. I'm not going to name names, but we all know who they are.
It's more reliable than any bollocks you come out with. Anyway, this is not Northern Ireland. Celtic and Rangers do not play their games in Northern Ireland. The bill going through the Scottish Parliament does not cover Northern Ireland.
Another day a completely different arguement Hun is used in Ireland as a derogatary name for Ulster Prods. Maybe it came from Rangers fans I don't know but there you go.
A pretty weak argument. I'm sure you could think of a dozen racist or sectarian marks that are in the dictionary. I and many users on here are from Northern Ireland, to us the term is sectarian. How many times do I have to tell you that?
It doesn't matter if it's sectarian to you (in your opinion), it isn't sectarian to me. And you seem to be the only one who is offended by it. As I said, Celtic and Rangers are Scottish teams playing in Glasgow. The people of Glasgow and throughout Scotland don't use the term 'hun' in a sectarian way. Why is that so difficult for you to understand? To paraphrase a song lyric your fellow fans like to use so much: "if you don't like it, don't come to Scotland."
How many times does Medro have to be told it's not sectarian in Scotland, never has been. Perhaps it will be defined under law as sectarian sometime in the future, but I have a hard time understanding what argument and what evidence they will look at to decide that it is. On the say so of Nil By Mouth? I doubt that will wash. If I called someone a Hun in the street they would surely have to prove that I meant it as a sectarian offence (as a term for a Protestant), how exactly would they be able to prove that when my defence would be that "I AM a Protestant"? Are they going to change the law so that only Catholics be outlawed from using the word?
Exactly. It would be like a black person getting done for racism for calling another black person the n word.
So let's get this straight, you can be racist/sectarian to someone if A. The phrase or word used is not in the dictionary B. You do not find it sectarian in your country Ridiculous argument. I could use some derogatory words or phrases used in Scotland but not N.I and then claim ignorance saying 'It may offend you, but it doesn't offend me in my country.'
