Cutty/Young
Well-Known Member
NBM are a tax payer funded organisation, now the guy called Dave Scott who runs it tells us the word hun "Is hotly contested with some regarding it as deeply sectarian and others seeing it as just a generic term of abuse". He speaks as if it's some sort of competition.
The same guy who runs NBM has this on the NBM website " Offensive sectarian language is still used in Scotland on a daily basis, with abusive terms such as “Hun” and “Orange bastard” being used negatively against Protestants(or those perceived to be)".
But above he claims it's hotly contested as either sectarian or abuse, let's not also forget that it's all about the context of how the words are used, use the term 19th Century Terrorist or hun on it's own and it's not breaking any laws, use it and add a sweary word and the context changes to being arrested by the cops.
So this woman has used the term "F... the huns" which going by how the context of the word is used she should be spoken to by the cops, on the point of will she be sacked, the club that employs her issued a memo to all their staff in regards to using the word hun a while back and went as far as in 2001 of warning and blocking their own supporters from their official website for using the word.
Let's not also forget John Guidetti was also brought up and found guilty of using the word by the SFA.
There also many examples of the word and context of it being used to be offensive and sectarian within Celtc fc's own ground including "hun scum" "know your place hun scum" and we've all seen the KAH flags as well as the effigies of orangemen and Rangers supporters hanged by the necks and tied up execution fashion and all of the above was allowed into their stadium, right under the noses of both the police and stewards who are supposed to check them and all flown right in front of their directors box, quite clearly their own club choose to totally ignore all this, otherwise we wouldn't see any of this.
So to sum up, Dave Scott who runs NBM states the term is hotly disputed, but bear this in mind that on his own website which is funded by taxpayers money he states the term hun is " sectarian AND offensive" towards Protesants, he didn't say it was sectarian OR offensive which is quite important.
The same guy who runs NBM has this on the NBM website " Offensive sectarian language is still used in Scotland on a daily basis, with abusive terms such as “Hun” and “Orange bastard” being used negatively against Protestants(or those perceived to be)".
But above he claims it's hotly contested as either sectarian or abuse, let's not also forget that it's all about the context of how the words are used, use the term 19th Century Terrorist or hun on it's own and it's not breaking any laws, use it and add a sweary word and the context changes to being arrested by the cops.
So this woman has used the term "F... the huns" which going by how the context of the word is used she should be spoken to by the cops, on the point of will she be sacked, the club that employs her issued a memo to all their staff in regards to using the word hun a while back and went as far as in 2001 of warning and blocking their own supporters from their official website for using the word.
In 2001, Celtic itself blocked fans from their website for using the word, with club administrator John Cole saying at the time: "It's a word that can cause offence and at Celtic we don't want to be offending anyone.”
Let's not also forget John Guidetti was also brought up and found guilty of using the word by the SFA.
There also many examples of the word and context of it being used to be offensive and sectarian within Celtc fc's own ground including "hun scum" "know your place hun scum" and we've all seen the KAH flags as well as the effigies of orangemen and Rangers supporters hanged by the necks and tied up execution fashion and all of the above was allowed into their stadium, right under the noses of both the police and stewards who are supposed to check them and all flown right in front of their directors box, quite clearly their own club choose to totally ignore all this, otherwise we wouldn't see any of this.
So to sum up, Dave Scott who runs NBM states the term is hotly disputed, but bear this in mind that on his own website which is funded by taxpayers money he states the term hun is " sectarian AND offensive" towards Protesants, he didn't say it was sectarian OR offensive which is quite important.