1. The Huns were a group of nomadic people who, appearing from east of the Volga River, migrated into Europe c. AD 370 and established the vast Hunnic Empire there. 2. Dirty, filthy, smelly, bigoted Rangers fan with a huge chip on both shoulders. The sort of person who hates everyone and ironically, any decent person hates them. I'm confused
To me, hun means Rangers fan. However it is seen by some as being a reference to a protestant, and may be deemed bigotted by context/connotation. There. Now move on you fenian ****s.
This is probably the most tedious argument any retard has ever started. Check this for whitabootery - "I believe it to be sectarian without base and if you disagree, you're ignorant" in several paragraphs - the reasonable comments below it are ignored/rhetorically twisted Medro-styleee. http://chrisgraham76.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/hun-when-does-it-stop/ Again, it all seems to come from aligning it with the word fenian. When I was young, I was told I went to a fenian school and my parents went to a fenian church. I was called a fenian several times due to the colour of my school uniform. There are no Hun schools. There are no Hun churches. The Queen isn't even a Hun. My protestant family who support Hearts and Aberdeen call Rangers "The Huns". Was it not tested legally when Stuart Cosgrove used it on the radio? You would think that since the Huns are able to paste that 2008 article about a t-shirt over and over and over, that they would also include this. It is the single most boring argument ever - Hun is not sectarian but, thanks to mopes, it will be - simply because Rangers fans don't like being called it. Fans of other teams should think about that - you can't call your opponents a name if they don't like it because they'll invent a subtext for it - pathetic, wee, sensitive-when-it-suits-them-abbrasive-when-it-doesn't HUN ****s
By some you mean Medro. And don't dare call me a fenian **** again. Taig's fine. Tarrier at a push but never fenian ya hun ****.
Correct. This is the method by which all offensive words are born. If a group find the word offensive to them, then it is indeed a bigotted word because it has gained that status by connotation.
Whit??? Well that explains the offensive bit but how can that possibly make it sectarian? So, what can we call you lot? We don't like you so we're not going to use any of the stupid suggestions you have for yourselves like Bears or bluenoses. It's pathetic - be offended at it, sure - but you're not getting called a name you don't like because your ancestors sided with one form of christianity over another. You're getting called a hun cos you support a particularly awful "football" team.
Call us what you like. Disny matter a **** to me. As for hun being sectarian, the connontations of words change over time directly because of the way they are used/perceived. You pointed that out in your post and I agreed with you.
I agree with the notion that it is not up to those who deliver the offence to decide how it is received. However, it is obvious in this instance that the recipient of that abuse deliberately and disingenuously misinterprets and misrepresents the tone, nature and target of that abuse. The specific and sole intention of doing that is to create a false equivalence with their own racist and sectarian abusive terms. I look forward to inventing new and inventive perjoratives for whatever football club you chose to support when the Huns cease to exist.
I've been campaigning for a year or two now to name them after another Germannic horde violently opposed to Rome and reflecting their general behaviour. Vandals it is
Yep. Well put. It also very quickly becomes self-fulfilling. Those who deliver it then begin to use it in the connotation it was perceived to deliberately insult and provoke. And on it goes.
