[DAWN] Jurassic World has been a mammoth success. It is well on its way to rake in $1 billion at the box office, shattering previous records but that's not what's making rounds on social media -- viewers are expressing disbelief over the supposed racial slur that they heard five to ten minutes into the movie.Tut tut! A racial slur, was it?
One of the many species of dinosaurs that appear in the movie is the Pachycephalosaurus (pronounced pak-ee-sef-a-low-sor -us). When a bunch of them escape, one character states: "The pachys are out of containment!", which phonetically sounds a lot like Paki, the n-word for Paks apparently.
Back in my Army days we had what they called Forward Area Refuelling Points, which was abbreviated FARP. One went to a FARP to pass gas, and things went downhill from there. I don't think the guys that came up with the abbreviation did it to cause the hee-hees among the easily amused among us.
Although it sounds just like a short form for Pak, it's used as a pejorative against South Asian people, mostly in the United Kingdom. Obviously the fact that the script was penned by Americans and the movie was set in Costa Rica doesn't make a difference: the damage was done.
We also had those things we put on our backs sometimes when we went out for a hike. We called them "bakpaks." But we only called them that because we didn't like Pakistainians.