# Needed: a new slur for white people (or: Inky gets banned from the board!) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 17, 2000, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-a-new-slur-for-white-people-or-inky-gets-banned-from-the-board/41664 "2000-11-17T21:46:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2000, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-a-new-slur-for-white-people-or-inky-gets-banned-from-the-board/41664/21 "2000-11-19T14:00:15Z")
[sidenote] > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FloChi \* > **Skip is a common one in Australia (comes from Skippy the Bush Kangaroo - ever wanted to see a kangaroo drive a truck?)** Thank you for clearing THAT up. All this time I thought it was “Skippy, the **Butch** Kangaroo”! [/sidenote] ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2000, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-a-new-slur-for-white-people-or-inky-gets-banned-from-the-board/41664/22 "2000-11-19T16:58:24Z")
> [@](#): > > Thank you for clearing THAT up. All this time I thought it was “Skippy, the Butch Kangaroo”! Which would explain that handkerchief that’s always hanging out the side of his pouch. ---
**Author:** ![meek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce73a5/32.png) [@meek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meek)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2000, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-a-new-slur-for-white-people-or-inky-gets-banned-from-the-board/41664/23 "2000-11-19T17:04:58Z")
How about… “The Rhythmically Challenged”? ---
**Author:** ![kellibelli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@kellibelli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellibelli)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-a-new-slur-for-white-people-or-inky-gets-banned-from-the-board/41664/24 "2000-11-20T00:42:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by iampunha \* > \*\*How about ghost? > > We need to think of something that’s white on the outside and pink on the inside. \*\* Piglet? ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-a-new-slur-for-white-people-or-inky-gets-banned-from-the-board/41664/25 "2000-11-20T03:06:07Z")
I always figured that if those _other_ people were “colored,” then we must be “colorless.” ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-a-new-slur-for-white-people-or-inky-gets-banned-from-the-board/41664/26 "2000-11-20T13:32:40Z")
In my heydays of AAu basketball I frequently was given the moniker of “Token”. Works for me. ---
**Author:** ![broccoli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@broccoli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/broccoli)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-a-new-slur-for-white-people-or-inky-gets-banned-from-the-board/41664/27 "2000-11-20T14:05:59Z")
Lol, if you wanna insult someone - or a group for that matter - you gotta use something they WON’T like or use for themselves (which is why “Queer” isn’t an insult for homosexuals…) So in this I propose to you: Snowflake. If nothing else it conjures images of that jackass who ‘sang’ the number one hit classic song of all time “Informer”. Excuse me while I vomit. I’m white and if someone called me a snowflake I can assure you i’d be pissed. punk snot dead, broccoli! ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-a-new-slur-for-white-people-or-inky-gets-banned-from-the-board/41664/28 "2000-11-20T14:08:48Z")
Broccoli, I think it’s fair to say that a lot of gay people find “Queer” to be an insult. Perhaps not all of them, but I dare say the majority of gay people might not like that sort of tone from a total stranger. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-a-new-slur-for-white-people-or-inky-gets-banned-from-the-board/41664/29 "2000-11-20T15:46:37Z")
Technical point…after becoming Jewish, am I still a White guy? I like Dirty Rotten Norman Sons of Bitches. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Gundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gundy)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-a-new-slur-for-white-people-or-inky-gets-banned-from-the-board/41664/30 "2000-11-20T16:19:40Z")
How about “prey”. Oh, but I kid. ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-a-new-slur-for-white-people-or-inky-gets-banned-from-the-board/41664/31 "2000-11-20T16:20:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Biggirl \* > \*\*_If you only knew how we talk about you behind you back. . ._ > > Peckerwood > Wet Dog (in reference to your smell) > Tight ass > Okey doke (as in "don’t try that okey doke shit around me) > \*\* I’ve heard that “wet dog” from my GF’s mother and grandparents before. And also from them comes this one, which I kinda like: “Nassatal” pronounced just like it sounds, it’s a contration of “No ass at all”, in reference to rail-thin Calista Flockhart type white women. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-a-new-slur-for-white-people-or-inky-gets-banned-from-the-board/41664/32 "2000-11-20T16:38:18Z")
We had a bar here called ‘whiteys’… My vote is naughty naughty & it is ‘hearie’ ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-a-new-slur-for-white-people-or-inky-gets-banned-from-the-board/41664/33 "2000-11-20T16:43:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mouthbreather \* > …pronounced just like it sounds… Sheesh. That should read “pronounced just like it looks”. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-a-new-slur-for-white-people-or-inky-gets-banned-from-the-board/41664/34 "2000-11-20T16:56:31Z")
My vote is for “Boones”, as in Pat (he of the white shoes and the soulless singing). This thread reminds me of the first time I heard the term “breeders” used to refer to heterosexuals. I haven’t laughed that hard in a long time… jr “Alle Menschen werden breeders” ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-a-new-slur-for-white-people-or-inky-gets-banned-from-the-board/41664/35 "2000-11-20T17:02:09Z")
heh, jr8 – thanks a million. Now I’ve got Pat Boone’s version of “Tutti Frutti” stuck in my head. :eek: “Boones” is a pretty good slur. ---
**Author:** ![Gundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Gundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gundy)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-a-new-slur-for-white-people-or-inky-gets-banned-from-the-board/41664/36 "2000-11-20T18:33:03Z")
I gotta second you on “boones”, **jr8**. Short, to the point…I like. ---
**Author:** ![zen101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c68b51/32.png) [@zen101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zen101)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-a-new-slur-for-white-people-or-inky-gets-banned-from-the-board/41664/37 "2000-11-20T18:39:28Z")
“no-tone” “goyim” “meshugga” “putz” I pretty much call all you sister humping trailer living coors swilling bastards by name because I’m not prejudiced. ---
**Author:** ![SqrlCub](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SqrlCub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SqrlCub)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-a-new-slur-for-white-people-or-inky-gets-banned-from-the-board/41664/38 "2000-11-20T19:02:31Z")
Well, the other day my friend, Bill, and my bf DC were called “White Bitches” with utter venom by the beggar at my metro stop since none of us would give him a quarter. I have also been called “the white menace” (not directly to my face but about the few white people I was with by the Farrakanites. I actually saw one of their papers about a year ago (The Last Call or something like that) that had a big headline that said, “The White Menace.” It must have caught on. Honkey is still in common usage though mostly by the Farrakanites selling incense or laminated Islamic messages on the metro who told me directly that they “don’t sell to honkeys.” I was curious when I saw them pass all the non-black people on the train (incidently I have also heard some of the Farrakanites call Asian people honkeys too) and only go directly to the black passengers trying to hock their wares (supposedly it is illegal to sell things on the trains but you wouldn’t know it by the way they do it). HUGS! Sqrl ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-a-new-slur-for-white-people-or-inky-gets-banned-from-the-board/41664/39 "2000-11-21T00:22:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by zen101 \* > \*\* > sister humping trailer living coors swilling bastards \*\* Hey! I resemble that remark! I never humped my sister. She won’t go out with me. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-a-new-slur-for-white-people-or-inky-gets-banned-from-the-board/41664/40 "2000-11-21T11:02:39Z")
How about “imperialist dogs”? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-a-new-slur-for-white-people-or-inky-gets-banned-from-the-board/41664.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-a-new-slur-for-white-people-or-inky-gets-banned-from-the-board/41664.md?page=3)