You mean when you were pulling your “humans are primates” bullshit? :dubious:
Is there a point to this relentless fisking?
Shocking, I know.
Possibly, it might be an idiosyncratic colloquialism. Perhaps if I’d phrased it as “No shit, Sherlock”?
Well, you have no functioning long-term memory and are completely colour-blind, so we clearly see the world in very different ways.
But I’m sure that’s not going to stop you in future.
I
have
no
idea
what
you
mean
mate.
This is going well.
I can’t possibly imagine why I wouldn’t want to clarify anything to a dude who argues that “primate” isn’t racist toward black people while flying a froth-spitting rage on behalf of poor oppressed white people, who have only had centuries of existence to shape religion, law, culture, government, custom, language, law enforcement, and medicine to their advantage.
I guess I must have missed how black people disenfranchised white people for decades after centuries of holding them in grim captivity as slaves. Not to mention all those thousands of lynchings of white people by black people.
I’ll stop you right there.
“primate” *can *be used in racist way towards black people. You’ll find I specifically said that in my initial exchanges and also that I accept the mod’s judgement that it was reasonable to consider it as such re: the original warning.
I do maintain that “primate” is not intrinsically racist. It can be used to refer to humans, quite correctly, accurately and usefully in many situations and that even if the humans being referred to have black people among them, it does not necessarily constitute a racist slur. I think you know that is the case and I think you are capable of judging when usage steps over the line into racist slur and when it doesn’t. I don’t know why you would refuse to acknowledge the fact. It doesn’t harm your anti-racist stance one jot.
So let’s all be clear, you want her to acknowledge it’s ok to use “primate” in a textbook or something? And you are pretty sure you know the answer but it’s important for some unstated reason that she acknowledges that? That’s what you are latched on to?
No, My first paragraph was a correction and the second is a statement of my opinion.
Margin is free to respond or not, an acknowledgement is irrelvant seeing as we all know that it is true. “primate” can be used towards humans in a racist way and it can be used towards humans in a non-racist way. It is completely banal but it isn’t me that has a problem accepting both of those positions. Allowing the latter doesn’t weaken the case for the former.
Fascinating.