When is a word racist?

Being subjective does not negate a label. By your logic there is no delicious food. And while technically true, as are you statements, convenience has us saying that a word is offensive or a food is delicious. It is a given that a subjective view is being rendered when such is said. Well at least for those with common sense.

 

Let's look at your own words again.

By your own words, it doesn't matter if it is commonly recognized. Common recognition would be due to exposure to the word. A lack of any given person not recognizing that "apple" or "oreo" is a racial slur does not render the words non-racist. Again, your own words.

Rather his argument is that "spook" is no more racist than "apple". His entire argument has been that words that have standard common meanings, that are used in any way that is not directly insulting another, should not be called out as racist.

 

Yeah well, sucks to be them.

back in high school, one of my friends was black and we often said "don't "n-word lip that joint, my friend".

He never took it the wrong way. Coloreds today... bleh. They need to get the sand out of their panties.

 

I'd never let any court take me down for my use of words . I consider we are all individuals and nobody owns us , we can say what we like and if people don't like this , tough luck !

They can walk away ...................It is their choice to read something and it is their choice to listen , I don't force people to listen or read .

We are a mard society.........

 

Cmon now.....no need to pick on leftists.

 

I don't pick on anybody , I'm totally a neutral objective observer and state truths and facts based on scientific principles and neurological process .
One person cannot tell another person what to think or what they can or can't say , nobody is owned and everyone is entitled to their own feelings .
Nobody should be offended by words because what you think I may of said is what I think I said and not what you think I said more than often .

In example if I called you a ''gay ****'' , that does not necessarily mean I'm calling you homosexual . It means whatever I think it means ....

Additionally , you couldn't take offense to the words anyway because they are just words and the offense would be your own ''mardness'' .

Also if you were gay , it would be stating a fact so again could not take offense .

If somebody called somebody a ''black ****'' , this is probably because that person appears to be black in colour because of the nature of light . That would also be stating a fact , the same applies to ''white **** '' or ''yellow ****'' .


Take note moderators : These are examples , they are not offensive and anyone who takes offense , is a ''pssy ****''.

It's called adult conversation .........If somebody tells you to F off , they are telling you to go away.......it's not swearing , it is ambiguity and semantics .

 

Well like I said, my mother would have slapped the **** out me, that I didn't take the other persons who are present feelings in account. I am more polite, I still open the car door for my wife of 35 years.

 

Well in our PC world.....it appears that the leftness is offended by many many many things. Including Pictures, Words, Colors, oh and Hats.

Even a Neutral objective observer would notice such a reality. Despite there not being a True Neutral in politics.

 

I'm truly neutral , I love the entire world and all about her , I am an amateur scientist , not too brag , but I am good !

People are not really offended , it is neurological programming and the access of memory . People are taught that words are offensive and this becomes a part of their memory protocols .

Science is everything and everything is science , including politics .

P.s Notice I said I love the world , this is not my opinion on people .

 

I do have to agree here. My stepson was raised in rural New England where in his school there were maybe a score of black children and those hadn't developed the "What's up my [bleep]!" means of address. And with the way he was raised, he had never heard the N-word used.

Now his father took them to a more urban suburb of Washington DC where he and his siblings were three of the six white children in the school. He went from an environment where no one used "gangsta" speech pattern and behaviors...to a place where they did in abundance. After hearing "What's up my [redacted]!" as the most common form of address...he used it to greet one of his friends.

Naturally they beat the **** out of him and the school administration wanted to expel him. Only some fast talking by his father explaining how he was raised in an environment where it's seldom used (if at all), how he didn't have any context for the word apart from it being used as the most common greeting by his schoolmates, and if the word is so horrible...that the school was negligent in not stopping others from using it and should they expel his son, he would take it up with the school board and consider lawsuit. Thankfully they moved again to a more racially diverse school system less than a year later.

So in this case, my stepson was colorblind, but unknowingly used a word and got into trouble over it.

 

not my black/brown/yellow/red/mixed/strate/gay freinds, we all understand reality and are not offended by those 'selected' racist/bigot trigger words...

 

To me it was the hurt in the eyes of a black person of my own (retired) age when the word worked it's way into the vocab of the young blacks 20 and 30 years ago. At worked they were appalled at what their group fought for in the 50s-70s was now a greeting between blacks.

 

Do you want to know the irony of racism ? A juicy red apple is black in the dark , colour is the nature of light and in reality without light , we're all black .
People use their eyes and not their brains , I'm afraid to say the majority of people are really uneducated and stupid !

I appear as a ''white'' man in the light , do I care I'm really black ?

Nope ! That's science , it's no big deal whatever colour you appear to be , that is just an optical illusion of the nature of light .

 

Rather like the term 'anti-semitic' with AIPAC. If merely talking about Israeli policy is anti-Semitic in the eyes of some, the label loses its meaning.

 

Fine with what you say, but the majority are not uneducated and stupid, as the nation has become less segregated and through service in the armed forces, college etc where you are exposed to diversity is when you realize that yes we are the same. Its hard to be a racist when in the service your same job is being done just as well by a person of color and he misses his wife and can't stand a thief and a deadweight as much as you.

 

The biggest is the illegal immigration fiasco, you are a racist if you don't want illegals in the country even if you are ok with legal immigrants from the same group.

 

Is a thief really a thief if it is their only means of survival ?

Is dead weight not sometimes circumstance ?

Objectively the neglected are innocents , the guilt shines on the neglecter's !

 

A thief is a thief. The neglected are innocent of what?

 

It was much the same for me growing up as a child of a Marine. Having to move every other year meant I couldn't be picky about my friends. My friends were as racially diverse as the people who served in the Armed Services. I would make friends by making sure that the first thing I unpacked was my Frisbee and walking down the street spinning it on my finger. Whoever said "Yo dude! Chuck it!" became one of my first friends. Didn't matter their skin color.

 

Words, ideas, products, just about anything is racist if it offends liberals. If white chocolate became more popular than milk chocolate it would be racist in a matter of hours...

 

Broad brush there don't you think?

 

Only if I'm wrong, but I'm not on this one...

 

well I am a liberal on many issues and I don't see racism or prejudice in trump's immigration stance, but I do see prejudice and racism in having the penalties for crack cocaine being much more severe than the penalties for powder Cocaine. One being used by predominantly white more affluent people and one being used by black and predominantly poorer people. Even Trump recognizes that there is an issue with the way young blacks are treated in our justice system than whites.