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Originally Posted by Livia

That is not a good example at all. To understand the interaction between Harry and the Asian bloke in question, you'd have to understand military humour. The Asian soldier was not in the least offended, and is a good Friend of Harry's. Other people became outraged on his behalf quite unnecessarily and now I see people are misquoting the incident as "a good example" of racism.

To me, racism - or as lostalex more accurately calls it, prejudice, like many other things, is all about intent. If you intend to hurt, offend or harrass someone, then it's obviously not on. If you're using a term to a friend in an innocent manner - quoting song lyrics for example as Emily Parr in BB did - then it is clearly not racism, even though Charley did her best to pretend to be outraged.

I totally disagree, it matters not if he is in the military the P word should not be used...
How do you know he was not offended, it certainly is an offensive term?
It reminds me of the Made in Bradford C4 programme where the retired officer made a reference to past collegues, in which he admitted using this term.
How is one jokey uniformed banter and the other evidence of institutional racism?
Is is because one is a prince?