I would actually be completely ok with abolishing anything race related..... white.... black.... just toss it all out. Although I'm a mutt and I can't really pinpoint one heritage.
I feel you. I'm like Irish, scottish, french, german, polish, english. I have like 10% native blood according to a dna test. I don't claim being a tribe member or anything. My mom is a tribe member. I'm not using my dna results of showing very small part native to mean anything. Just illustrating how most "white" americans are a fucking blender of no heritage to trace back to other than being considered American.
Never say "nip" to somebody. It offends people of Japanese descent and origin. Even if you're not being serious. We had concentration camps here in this very country for God sake...
Well, the original statement, which was done via voice to text, was "used the phrase nitwit", but it read it was "nip". But considering the most common use of "nip" is akin to "nip it in the bud", which originates from the phrase "nipped it in the bud", meaning to cut a flower at the bud. It also originates in the 16th century.
That's true, but let's try to be consistent. The swastika was a Buddhist symbol to denote plurality, abundance, prosperity, and long life. Until Hitler came along. The most common use of the word "boy" for thousands of years was a male child from birth to young manhood. Another common usage is to mean friend. I get you using it by mistake, but even then, here you are defending the use after you've been chiding others for something similar. Glass houses...
Lolllllllll. Someone says it is an offensive word and you try to justify it. The first paragraph is fine. Trying to justify it with the second is gross.
Context really makes the world go round, you know. For starters, I never commented on the "boy" thing, so to use this as a "gotcha" thing is silly. Secondly, it makes zero sense to act like a voice to text error of "nip it" when I was referencing myself saying "nitwit", is some big slur on my part. Thirdly, to act like when someone says "nip it" (esp in the context of what I was saying, and then my explanation and correction immediately after) the first thing people think of is a well known slur against Japanese people (when it is the use of "nip" as a descriptive of a noun, and not as a verb), is disingenuous. Had I not been in a conversation with Nate, where I called him a "nitwit" and we continued in the conversation where I was referencing him getting upset over the word "nitwit", and it was completely out of the blue (or had a clearly obvious explanation), I could see being upset. But none of that is true. It's not like I said ****** where there are pretty much no way in which it makes sense to use the word in a sentence (nip it in the bud, nip ups, nip slip, etc) without it meaning the slur. Unless you think that I secretly tried to include that slur in this conversation, in a thread about critical race theory...that I started...was done on purpose. Also, taken into account that it's super obvious that "nitwit" and "nip it" sound similar to a phone. Especially if someone has a speech impediment. Also the reason I brought up the "nip it in the bud" thing was because that is a far more common use of the word "nip", than a slur against Japanese people anymore. Had Nate and I been talking about Japanese people, or been making stereotypical comments about each other (or other people) OR had Nate himself been Japanese, I could understand the original intent being questioned. But instead, it's being used as a case of "see??? you said something offensive too! Stop!" When, like I said, I didn't comment on the whole "boy" thing in the first place, so it really makes no sense to comment on an audial error by my phone as though it's some big gotcha moment. Is this going to be a thing every time someone says "nip up" or comments on a "nip slip"?
Excellent points. Very valid concerns...is it going to be a problem when I want go hang out with my boys? What if some are black? All good questions...interesting times...
