Stop acting all snooty like your English is any better than his. You understood wtf he meant, so no one was incorrect in any conceivable way. Except for you. For being so elitist.
Ok, but why does the sentence sound better by including "throw his black ass in jail, rather than just “throw his ass in jail”? It’s because of the negative connotations associated with the word “black”. No one ever says “throw his athletic ass in jail”. Or “throw his white ass in jail”. Or on and on.
And it’s being used as a negative attribute of a man and is included here with all these obviously unwanted characteristics. Attributes such as “stupid”, “fat” “misogynistic” lumped in with “black”.
This assume 1) Black is inherently a negative, 2) Afros (one of which, again, I used to have) are inherently negative, 3) that when trying to disparage someone, characterizing an afro as “nappy” is inherently racist.
I don’t agree with any of that. Also, I notice how you ignored skinny, fat, and macho. None of which are inherently negative. But one might use them in a negative manner. I see “black” and “nappy” the same way.
I’m going to go with “nope”. Especially because characterizing mags as “not-particularly-racist” would be wrong. He’s completely racist, as his posting history shows.
Nope. No such thing - I , for one, mention race all the time.
It’s true I don’t care about offending racist shitstains such as yourself and mags. But that’s less to do with any chip and more to do with the fact that you’re racist shitstains.
Well, duh!
That is so frequently shown to be a lie, on these boards.
Bullshit.
Just called race-based insults.
Get the fuck out of here with your whitewashing “mention”. His race/racial characteristic was used as part of an insult to him. The hell that’s just a “mention”
I wish. Then I’d be imagining the little cadre of racists telling me my entire continent is functionally retarded. You know, the people like Chief , Chen, Fotheringay, Shodan, mags - all the people you regularly feel compelled to defend.
“I see racists posting just like regular people.” I see racists because there are racists.
I’m so conflicted. Oppressed African Americans defending their rights to make a living unmolested, or women proclaiming their sexuality in defiance of slut-shaming patriarchy?
I see why many people see “nappy” as offensive – it implies that the natural state of many African people’s hair is ugly and unacceptable. “Nappy” is never a positive thing… it’s always negative.
Bringing up a past afro hairstyle you had in a discussion about the word “nappy” is as pointless as someone using “some of my best friends are black” as a defense against charges of racism – it’s totally irrelevant to the topic of conversation.
I haven’t seen the clip, but I was at a party a decade or so ago when this woman came up to me and stuck her finger up my butt through my shorts. So if it was like that, it crossed the line from transgressive into predatory. But it probably wasn’t.
Nope. It demonstrates that afro hair styles, while most common amongst blacks, are not restricted to just black people. That’s step 1. Step 2 is that if someone acts like an asshole and I want to disparage him, it is my intent to describe in in unflattering light. Referring to an afro as nappy is doing joust that.
This really isn’t that hard. Except for sad, dumb folk like Dibble who views the world through racist-colored glasses.
Sure, but this is totally irrelevant. What does this have to do with anything regarding this discussion? Who has denied that afros are unique to black people?
I don’t think it’s that hard, either. I think “nappy” is quite reasonably considered offensive by some because it implies that natural afro-textured hair (e.g. the hair of most black people) is ugly, disgusting, or otherwise unacceptable. The word “nappy” is not a neutral descriptor – it nearly always has a negative connotation.
Not a huge deal, and not that hard. Saying “nappy” doesn’t make someone a racist. But I avoid using such words in such ways, because I think many people are offended for reasonable reasons by this sort of usage. It’s a lot like “throw his watermelon eating ass in jail”, to me. This sort of language has a lot of very ugly history, and that’s enough reason to avoid such usage, in my view.
