Is It Racist To Name Your Dog After A Black Soccer Player?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/jeremy-clarkson-bbc-relationship_uk_56ed3bffe4b0fbd4fe080056

[Zacs-Master]

I don't think there's a black and white answer to this. Personally, I don't think so. But then I'm white.

[ummmm]

No.

[ToraToraTora]

well my dog is white and named after a white footballer am I also racist?

[viv41]

No.

[stuey]

Perhaps he should have named the dog after a yoga position: Downward Facing Dog - Adho Mukha Svanasana.

[dannyk13]

It depends on the thought behind the naming

[Peter Pedant]

that is a new idea !

yes we have only discussed for the 99th time ( so lots of threads to come ) whether taboo words exist ( yes ) and whether we are allowed to use them ( no or else they wouldnt be taboo ) and whether they change over time ( yes )

BUT

you know - Easter Monday afternoon so lets us pretend we are approaching this for the first time and not the 99th time - fresh and sunny faced

Points already made - Dambusters' dog was named Knee-jair and that was broadcast ( in the fifties - I am that old ) and then it was blooped out ( seventies and eighties ) and now I am told it is back ( noughties as a historial document and accuracy )

another point made ad infinitum
shinkie and parcki are obscene and punishable at law
scrappie and postie not ( punishable )

now WHY is this ? ( this question is also asked ad infinitum )
please ask this to yourself with a puzzled expression on your face as tho it took you a thousand years to formulate the question and it has never been asked before

and then and then ask yourself something really new
Saul Kripke ( no not the one tee-vee Big Bang Theory, the real one ) discussed naming in a book called "naming and necessity"
and wonder if Neejair in Dambusters is necessarily true as a name
and wonder further if 'the black lavvy in Dambusters' is a descriptor as Bertrand Russell first said....
see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_and_Necessity

no dont for chrissakes ( look up "Naming and Necessity" ) - doing that would refute my argument

instead argue loudly that jeremy clarkson's gaffe means inevitably that hordes of dark muslims with oustaches will swarm over the channel and kill us in our beds whether or not we know the arabic for 'dont shoot ! ' Finish / conclude the argument with the statement "I dont know a non-sequitur when I see one and never will. "

copy and paste 100 times and hey presto! a brand new thread !

[ damn I havent even shoe-horned some rhyming slang in - ding dang ! easy squeezy ! )

[maggiebee]

This is all getting beyond ridiculous - for goodness sake it's a dog and who cares what is's called or what colour it is. My cat was called Pele.

[agchristie]

Well I'm a Crystal Palace fan and my pooch is called 'Bolassie'. (Yannick).

[ToraToraTora]

Guy Gibson's dog was named with a very common name for black dogs at the time PP there is no doubt it was really his name. I believe there is actually a stone memorial at the airfield even now, with the word that cannot be uttered engraved upon it, though I suspect they have taped a board over it lest the PC brigade have a fit.

[Togo]

Then there's John Terrier.

[Togo]

And you cant call a Golden Retriever Golda, or your anti sematic.

[douglas9401]

I've been teaching my dog a few tricks by command.
His latest is kneel, Lennon.

[chiaroscuro]

I wonder if this get's pulled
http://www.tickld.com/t/752643

[agchristie]

I did have a dog from Belgium who I called 'Vincent'. He was very good Kompany.

[chiaroscuro]

gets

[Togo]

I thought you were calling someone a name there chia, they haven't cottoned on yet by the look of things.

[vulcan42]

The PC brigade haven't reached Lincolnshire yet.
http://photos.wikimapia.org/p/00/01/13/57/23_big.jpg

[agchristie]

If I was Clarkson I'd have said 'Sodje'...

[TWR]

No, why should it be?