Poor Prince Harry- Now He Is A Bigot

I have been watching the Prince Harry controversy over in the UK. For the record I think it would be a fine idea that when the times comes they pass over Prince Charles and put him in Charge!!

TO get a overview of what is happening go see Is Prince Harry a Bigot?

A few observations.

(1) This occurred like three years ago when he was training. Since then Harry has been fighting like mad to go to the Front Lines and put his life at risk for the UK and well basically Western Civilization.

(2) These are guys joking with each other especially in a military context. Have we come to the point that the Future King of England who is serving his Country and trying to "fit" in among his comrades now has to apologize for something like this!!

(3) Was his Pakistan Friend and Comrade Even Offended? I mean is that not sort of important here. I mean would a Italian in the U.S, Military be always offended if their North Louisiana Redneck bud called him his little Dago?

(4) In the poltical context there is as always an interesting double standard as we can in recent US Electoral History. As was pointed at in the above link

Did Prince Harry mean to insult “our little Paki friend, Ahmed”? Did his use of the word signal hostility to Pakistanis in general? Is Harry a bigot? This is really the question in such cases, as when Joe Biden joked that in Delaware “you cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.” From the context and from Biden’s reputation as a liberal loudmouth, it was quickly deduced that his remark indicated no invidious intent, an assumption that was spectacularly denied to Virginia Sen. George Allen a month later when the Republican referred to an Indian-American volunteer for his Democratic rival’s campaign as “macaca.”
In all the uproar over MacacaGate, no one ever credibly asserted that Allen actually harbored hostility toward Indian-Americans. No Indian-Americans came forward to claim that they had been mistreated by Allen, nor was any evidence offered that his policies as governor or as senator had been harmful to Indian-Americans. Yet his jocular reference to S.R. Sidarth — Allen explained that he was simply using a nickname his staff had given the Democratic activist who was shadowing the senator’s campaign stops — generated a full week of front-page headlines in the Washington Post, and ultimately sank the Republican’s re-election bid.