I'm just giggling at 'Candida' brand toothpaste here.

I read that book and in my minds eye I saw a load of PC weenies choke on their low fat milk.

I really dont think its me being oversensitive rather attitudes of some others being too desensitive.

So if I marketed my new smoking and roasting machine as "Auschwitz" with the tagline "ruthless efficiency, military precision" that would be OK because I'm talking about chicken not people? If not then how is it different?

Jamaica? In North America?

Would that make them American Americans if they lived in USA?

Into the minefield we go.....

I think they are some sort of candy from the Former Yugoslavia, either Croatia or Servia, sold in the Coop and for the Croats or Serbs it is perfectly normal name as they did not use the term Negro for black or coloured people. The term Negro is purely used by English speaking people, so if it is used in context with a language which is not English speraking, how can it be racist ?

Boom, i think i just hit a mine, not sure if it's life threatning as yet though

Very Bernard manning .

Because "Auschwitz" isnt an extremely commonly used word and is in fact one of the most common colour words, alongside white and red?

Because calling candies by their colour isnt in any way related to racial or ethnic slurs?

Why is it, when someone is offended by something, they're immediately branded PC or sensitive? What bulls**t!

It sounds as if it was against yeast infections, doesn't it

No. I think that was the sound of you hitting the nail on the head.

"too desensitive"

Eh, what?

Im really pleased its a simple case of translation failure

no way - he was simply telling a story from his childhood when the usage of words like n***** by elderly people was not regarded as being offensive since they grew up with it - see my post on the changing in words describing "person with dark skin living in the US" further down.

Btw what exactly did it say in German? Neger?

Meh, perhaps. Would never happen in the UK, imported item or not. Negro isn't black in Swiss German is it? French? No.

I'm always slightly taken aback at the excitable zeal covert racists display in locating and defending their right to sail close to the wind. They scream and shout and look at the linguistics behind various words (of course the word n****r is also related to the Spanish word for black and negro is the Spanish word for black, though still unacceptable to use as identification of a human outside of Spain).

Racism is almost always hidden in the shadows which is why the torch must shine extra brightly to expose it.

As far as I knew, yes if <and this bit's important> used by a white person.

But I'd be happy to be corrected...

But it all goes a bit daft when schools and training centres are instructed to call their blackboards "chalkboards" so as not to offend anyone from any particular ethnic background.

Just when I think I've heard it all.....

If you only used for ham its OK ,Ham is not kosher