OT Either stop locking threads or close the OT forum down

I gave it a like because I too NEVER heard it used in a racial sense. It was straight up hillbilly talk. I grew up in inner southeast Portland (on the edge of what I considered the white “ghetto’). We didn’t have very many black people in my ‘hood, but we had more than our fair share of “hillbillies”. But again, I honestly thought @dviss1 was woofing when he called it rascist. And maybe it is since I associate it with “white trash”........

 

It is only religious if used properly.

 

Isn't intent the main driving point behind insults? How else do slurs come to be? You take something that is totally harmless and make it into something hurtful. I mean.... Dan Issel was fired because he called someone a "Mexican piece of shit." When did calling someone a nationality become a slur? But it was, and it was all because of how he said it. Or you could be like New York and just take a slur and make it your baseball team name.

 

This is what I’ve been gathering.

Dviss is a loud, angry, black man; so it’s ok for him to say racist stuff, hat might offend a lot of people.

BUT

I’m one of those more edumacated h’white folk, so I’m held to a higher moral standard.

Is that what’s going on?

 

I would say "no" simply because I would not have held the first part of the bolded sentence to be true of you.

 

But Riverman basically said that if it comes from a black guy, he takes it as gospel. So it's not as simple as calling that one guy black and the other guy African American. If you take the word of one person, he would henceforth call all people African American because he doesn't ask questions.

My point from the beginning is whether one person can make that determination. Obviously there are some words/insults that are universally accepted as being racist. Nobody would dispute that. But when one person tells me that a word is racist, and everything I have heard is to the contrary, I'm going to want some justification.

Hell, for the longest time I thought cracker was because we're white...... like a cracker. But I later found out that it's about the sound a whip makes. I did not know that until maybe a few years ago. So if Dviss had a justifiable reason why edumacate was racist, I just wanted to hear it.

 

Where does the double standard come from then?

 

But you’re ok with the portion that you think is racist.

 

So you’d rather let someone perpetuate retarded bullshit, than have an open conversation with him?

You think the convo might not go well or something?

 

Truth. Only one person in here, as a FUCKING, 6 Year old, had an ashtray dumped their head and been told they were gonna go to prison when they grow up.

Dog, I really want someone to quote thus so called hate I "spew"

 

As long as we can all agree, that we’re just letting someone openly be a hateful person.

Thank you for admitting that he says racist shit though.