[Denver]

Originally Posted by rusticgal

Racial undertones

It's ignorance..nothing racial about it at all ffs.

The fact he was doing it with an Asian name and not one of the typically white people names begs to differ

[LeatherTrumpet]

I bet so far we have heard

Trish

Sar

Des

melia

H

Sands

[Paula D]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

I bet so far we have heard

Trish

Sar

Des

melia

H

Sands

Eh, let me think, NO.

[chuff me dizzy]

No not in the slightest but it gets you the attention you crave, pretty boring now

[Peachydaisy]

In my opinion paul did orginally not intend for it to be offensive or racist, but he kept dragging it on and bringing the topic of being called racist up, and therefore it started to seem like he was getting that defensive because he actually is racist. I dont think he was being though but the only one now making it seem like he may be is himself

[Withano]

There is nothing racist about saying Kafar. Its plain ignorant and rude, not racist.

Karthik misheard Danan and thought he said Qatar, this would have been racist.

Danan failed to understand Karthiks very reasonable perspective several times, either because he's ignorant, rude, or stupid idk - Big Brother explained it to him like an adult explaining something to a toddler to get Danan to shut up because everytime he brought it up he made it worse with his outrage at Karthiks reasonable perspective that he could not grasp.

The discussion is over, Danan understands that he was a twat, and I'm sure Karthik will learn to listen before throwing out more accusations like that

This entire topic just screams faux-outrage. Everything that happened was entirely reasonable.

[LeatherTrumpet]

When being branded a racist can end careers and can cuase eviction you must be pretty stupid to bandy it about on something like this?

Sounds like Karthick uses this "defence" quite a lot

[iRyan]

I'm sorry but some of you in this thread are truly ignorant. Big Brother explained it right: it's not just misspelling or mispronouncing sometimes name. It's a white man lacking the deceny to learn a foreign man's name and telling him he should therefore change it. Its incredibly disrespectful and would make anyone feel wrongly inferior. It reminds me of when Jackie would continuously mispronounce Shilpa's name. Just have some basic human decency, ffs.

[riceflick]

the key difference is that Paul was intentionally mispronouncing Karthik's name.

K: Are you being racist, Paul? My name is Karthik, dude.
P: Kuthaar?
…
*Karthik explains Qatar/Paul blames Sam/etc* (nb, no one says Karthik's name at all during this minutes-long period)
...
K: What is my name?
P: (annoyed) K! Karthik.

Paul knew Karthik's name the entire time. Karthik was clearly uncomfortable with the "joke" and thought it was racist, but Paul continued to call him "Kuthaar" anyway. The fact that it took Paul three entire minutes to finally say "Karthik" correctly was pretty telling.

If that was the end of it and they made up afterwards, I don't think I would hold it against him. But the next day Paul doubled down (Maybe you should change your name / You don't know what REAL racism is / HOW DARE YOU USE THE RACE CARD). Nah. Paul just outed himself.

Karthik may have been too quick to bring up the "RACE CARDDD!!!!1111" but, if anything, Paul's behavior during that incident and the entire following day vindicated Karthik totally.

[Barry.]

I get my name Barry to Gary sometimes. Is that racist?

[Tozzie]

Originally Posted by y.winter

It's understandable mispronouncing it for the first few times if it's an unusual/uncommon name, but after that it's wrong and disrespectful.

yes, wrong and disrespectful, certainly not racist. PC madness rears its ugly head.

[Paula D]

Originally Posted by riceflick

the key difference is that Paul was intentionally mispronouncing Karthik's name.

K: Are you being racist, Paul? My name is Karthik, dude.
P: Kuthaar?
…
*Karthik explains Qatar/Paul blames Sam/etc* (nb, no one says Karthik's name at all during this minutes-long period)
...
K: What is my name?
P: (annoyed) K! Karthik.

Paul knew Karthik's name the entire time. Karthik was clearly uncomfortable with the "joke" and thought it was racist, but Paul continued to call him "Kuthaar" anyway. The fact that it took Paul three entire minutes to finally say "Karthik" correctly was pretty telling.

If that was the end of it and they made up afterwards, I don't think I would hold it against him. But the next day Paul doubled down (Maybe you should change your name / You don't know what REAL racism is / HOW DARE YOU USE THE RACE CARD). Nah. Paul just outed himself.

Karthik may have been too quick to bring up the "RACE CARDDD!!!!1111" but, if anything, Paul's behavior during that incident and the entire following day vindicated Karthik totally.

That's exactly how I see it.

[Vanessa]

Originally Posted by Tozzie

yes, wrong and disrespectful, certainly not racist. PC madness rears its ugly head.

I agree. It's madness.

[Withano]

Originally Posted by BBfan2017

I get my name Barry to Gary sometimes. Is that racist?

Those two names are literally the names of my cats! (Gary cos spongebob, Barry cos rhymes).

Originally Posted by Withano

Barry and Gary

Spoiler:

[Vanessa]

Awwww I love cats. They're beautiful

[JayGreen]

I think if you are doing it on purpose continuously then yes, if its a genuine accident and you say sorry then no.

[Paula D]

People sometimes call me Paul, they only get one warning.

[Oaker]

Yeah because he knew he was saying it wrong yet kept on doing it