Perhaps you should start a poll asking how many people think of blacks, Asians or Hispanics when they hear the term “redneck”. I doubt the results will favor your position.
Jesus fucking Christ.
Only on the SDMB would a black conservative have to explain to a bunch of Lake Wobegonians what the term redneck means.
Of course, the conservatives are having trouble with nigger, so it’s a wash.
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And still today, though I probably saved that girls life I still can’t help but feel a bit guilty about that puffed up last shot and apparently racist curse.
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Uh, no, that’s not apparently racist. That’s definitely racist. You used a racial slur and essentially implied that there was something inherent to their genetics that made them beat up the other woman..
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Mighty presumptuous of you to read that far into the implications and my intentions. I honestly wasn’t even thinking that deeply, I was trying to save a half conscious, beaten and bloodied woman from a an entire pack of women and the adrenaline was flowing, literally shaking from the adrenaline, it leapt to my lips and sounded really alien to me, it was like somebody searching for some words to bludgeon another with, to make them hurt as bad as that girl, and then it not coming out right… it sounded really weak and stupid. I’m a sucky racist.
I mean, I could call you a “Self Righteous Prickhole!” but that doesn’t mean I think you are genetically predisposed to being a Self Righteouss Prickhole, it’s just that you are being a Self Righteous Prickhole.
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Recently, on this board, I used the term “jew down” which I am kind of torn about, because, it’s quite a part of my local language and has certainly lost any racist connotations it might once have had by its rather lighthearted use as a synonymn for “to bargain” and it’s “owned” usage.
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No, it hasn’t lost its racist connotations. You’ve just become comfortable with casual racism. Kind of like kids who use “gay” as a synonym for “lame” and then try to defend it by saying it doesn’t really mean anything
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I thought it was more like the way black people are always calling each other “My Nigger!” or 'Hey Nigger, What up?" or the way homosexuals are always calling each other “faggot” and variations thereof, or at least that’s the way it feels to me.
Are you Jewish? Because otherwise, you appear to be missing one of the essential elements of the principle you are attempting to apply.
Just for your information, while I currently live in the central Florida area, I used to live in the Pensacola/Mobile area (which is along the Florida/Alabama) border. So while not the “deep” South, that’s pretty damn Southern.
Then feel free to run out to Speed World in Bithlo whenever you like and you can see minority rednecks by the thousand.
Maybe you and ol’ shot from gunnies are lacking essential reading skills as an element of the quote you are attempting to apply. What does “owned” mean, if not?
Maybe, but it’s kind of hard to obtain information form text which doesn’t actually include that information. You referred to “owned usage” generally, not to your “owned usage”.
Did ya read the thread where I made the comment?..all will be revealed.
So when black folk act with dignity there is no reason for anyone to be racist, but this (assumedly) white person is not acting with any dignity by calling the president a nigger with his bumper sticker. Therefore by your way of thinking racism against whites is justified.
And exactly how does anyone deserve racism because they aren’t well dressed?:dubious:
The point is that civil, reasoned behavior by people who present their case well is much more effective at changing people’s minds about race than is screeching "Asshole!" and demanding the loss of jobs and careers everytime someone utters a racist word.
To eliminate racism it’s necessary to change the way racists think about black people. MLK and the civil rights marchers of the sixties were effective at that. Your approach, which merely drives racism underground and does nothing to change the underlying reasons for it, is not.
You forgot to mention that it’s all the liberals’ fault.
Well, I suppose not effective enough, given the bumper sticker in question.
Please respond to my question, I didn’t consider it very difficult: Yes or no, using the argument you used in the post I quoted, can’t that same thinking justify racism against whites? Yes or no, and feel free to explain why or why not instead of dodging the question if you please.
Also please answer my question about being well dressed.
The onus is not on black people to act extra “dignified” whatever that means to make racists not be racist, it is on racists to stop hating people for their skin color. I have a hard time seeing how you are intelligent enough to operate a computer and cannot figure that out.
Can you explain what my approach is and how you would possibly know it, considering I have never said anything about one on the SDMB?
You see, white people want so much to not be racist, they really do, but when you ever allege that anything is ever racist, they just get so mad they can’t help themselves but to continue being racist. That’s what SA is trying to say. Just never, ever call anything racist ever and after several centuries maybe white people will stop being racist. That, and pull up your pants.
Nobody gives a fuck what anybody thinks. If people can’t act right, then they should expect to be called on it.
You’re mistaken, unsurprisingly.
HA! Well, when someone who you regard as racist agrees with you in a discussion concerning racial issues such as this, you might want to question your characterization of him. Or yourself. Or the way you throw around the term racist.
Or do something more useful, like count clouds or start an eyelash collection.