Reply to: Your horse is racist!

[fullyautomatix]

Yes, but you are charmingly naive.

OK, 4) 12 years old.

OK grandpa

[LondonManc]

Surely the bigger question is why wasn’t the game pulled?

[Zigenare]

Racist bastards!

[NotAllThere]

I have sincerely never heard of this term!

Yes, but you are charmingly naive.

Yep. Difficult to say what causes offence or what is termed racist these days. Only Mods seem to know!

OK, 4) 12 years old.

[SueEllen]

Yep. Difficult to say what causes offence or what is termed racist these days. Only Mods seem to know!

Well they aren't 80 like you.

[fullyautomatix]

I have sincerely never heard of this term!

Yep. Difficult to say what causes offence or what is termed racist these days. Only Mods seem to know!

[xoggoth]

Used to hear it in the 70s but not heard it more recently. I wonder if the term J Arthur is still used?

[darmstadt]

Where's the resident Alf Garnet to enlighten everyone?

Sent from my 5g carrier pigeon

[vwdan]

I have sincerely never heard of this term!

[cojak]

What’s racist about jungle bunny?

TIL.

[vetran]

I was aware it was unpleasant, I was amazed at the stupidity of both the owner and the BHA. One of them should have twigged.

Apparently its not the name's first outing in horse riding.

The Equine Etymology of Jungle Bunny – Susanna Forrest (wordpress.com)

What a load of royal rollocks. According to the OED, it was first quoted as offensive Australian slang in the Sunday Times in 1973, and it clearly slipped easily into British vocabularies. In the 1970s, one of the UK’s top showjumpers, Lionel Dunning, even christened a new horse Jungle Bunny. At the time, showjumping was a hugely popular and much-televised sport, and Britain was lurking in something of a dark age of racial sensitivity (to put it mildly).

[_V_]

Anyone who doesn't know that Jungle Bunny is a racist term for someone from Africa is either
1. Charmingly naive,
2. Lying
or
3. A moron.
I'm going for 3.

I'll go for 2.

[NotAllThere]

Horse owner is forced to change filly's name from 'Jungle Bunny' to 'Jungle Bells' amid racism storm | Daily Mail Online

Anyone who doesn't know that Jungle Bunny is a racist term for someone from Africa is either
1. Charmingly naive,
2. Lying
or
3. A moron.

What’s racist about jungle bunny?

I'm going for 3.

[ladymuck]

Elusive jungle rabbit keeps researchers on the hop | Fauna & Flora International

Ooh! Every day is a learning day

[Paddy]

I didn't know bunnies lived in the jungle

Elusive jungle rabbit keeps researchers on the hop | Fauna & Flora International