Thread: Question for the board PC police

What do you think is the reason you don't get bent out of shape about words like haole, gringo, gwailo, etc?

Is it because whites are the only group you AREN'T deeply prejudiced against, and therefore you don't feel the same guilt you do about words like jap, nigger, etc?

Or is it because you are so afraid of brown people that you don't know any/are too afraid to confront them?

Or is there some other reason for the glaring double standard?

You forgot Wasi'chu, you silly wasi'chu!

And retard.

Originally Posted by Jer

You forgot Wasi'chu, you silly wasi'chu!

pretty sure you just made that up

wasichu talking about, jer?

Originally Posted by ilikecandy

pretty sure you just made that up

wasichu talking about, jer?

I believe that is white-man in Sioux.

Actually, it's because the white man has historically been the oppressor. Turn about is fair play.

Originally Posted by doughboyshredder

Actually, it's because the white man has historically been the oppressor. Turn about is fair play.

Typical liberal. Two wrongs makes a right.

Typical liberal. Politics based on revenge.

Typical incurious, ignorant, unread hegemonic apologist for genocide.

Originally Posted by ms ann thrope

Typical incurious, ignorant, unread hegemonic apologist for genocide.

Typical liberal. Encouraging minority racism and bigotry toward whites because of 150 year old transgressions that happened while most of our families still lived in Europe. How will racism EVER go away when it takes YOU over 100 years to get over it?

Be honest, the only reason you started this thread is because it was the only way you could post those slurs and not look racist. But you REALLY wanted to post those really bad.

Originally Posted by advres

Be honest, the only reason you started this thread is because it was the only way you could post those slurs and not look racist. But you REALLY wanted to post those really bad.

nah. i was reading a football board and some guys were melting down because a guy used the word "jap"

and i was thinking what a mild slur that was, how you really have to be the type who looks for reasons to be offended for it to bother you

and i just got back from hawaii a couple weeks ago, not that i ran into problems, but i have heard plenty of stories, so that was on my mind

i dont need an excuse to use those words, i will use them whenever a funny situation arises. it helps that anyone who knows me knows im about as non-racist as you can be. of course, i dont hang out with people who would be intimidated by words or ideas

i had a black friend in college (half black actually, with all the issues that entails), and I told him I didnt like the fact that he could use the word nigger and i couldnt. so he told me i could say it, as long as i used it properly. next time he came to my house i say "whats up my nigger?"(nigga actually because im cool like that). he damn near turned white as a ghost - i guess that was his caucasian side coming out

Originally Posted by doughboyshredder

Actually, it's because the white man has historically been the oppressor. Turn about is fair play.

ahh, two wrongs make a right

i hope, for many, many reasons, that you dont have kids

setting aside the fact that your post is wildly inaccurate (slavery was carried on for thousands of years by non-whites);

why is "hillbilly" okay? its a slur against a group that has historically been oppressed

Originally Posted by ms ann thrope

Typical incurious, ignorant, unread hegemonic apologist for genocide.

???

its the white man's fault that the hawaiian women were so slutty? they died from syphillis, not ethnic cleansing

Originally Posted by Downbound Train

Typical liberal. Encouraging minority racism and bigotry toward whites because of 150 year old transgressions that happened while most of our families still lived in Europe. How will racism EVER go away when it takes YOU over 100 years to get over it?

I rest my case.

Originally Posted by ilikecandy

ahh, two wrongs make a right

i hope, for many, many reasons, that you dont have kids

setting aside the fact that your post is wildly inaccurate (slavery was carried on for thousands of years by non-whites);

why is "hillbilly" okay? its a slur against a group that has historically been oppressed

Since when is hill billy a slur?

Whites are still the oppressor. That hasn't changed.

Originally Posted by doughboyshredder

Since when is hill billy a slur?

Whites are still the oppressor. That hasn't changed.

not only a slur, but an ethnic slur (scotch-irish to be specific)

but like i said, racists like grape ape arent prejudiced against white people, so they dont have the same guilt regarding hillbilly that causes them to crusade against other slurs, thus the lack of faux outrage

you said historically, remember? what happened hundreds of years ago is totally relevant, right? and historically, whites are NOT the oppressors

Originally Posted by ms ann thrope

I rest my case.

Your Case?

Reverse racism against people who have done nothing to deserve it is OK, is your case? Great case! Loser.

Originally Posted by doughboyshredder

Since when is hill billy a slur?

Have you ever heard it applied as a compliment?

Hillbilly is a term referring to certain people who dwell in rural, mountainous areas of the United States, primarily Appalachia but also the Ozarks. Owing to its strongly stereotypical connotations, the term is frequently considered derogatory, and so is usually offensive to those Americans of Appalachian heritage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillbilly

Never thought of it as being a slur. Same as redneck. I see a lot of proud to be a redneck stickers on trucks around here. Or, the more localized North Bendneck stickers.

Originally Posted by Downbound Train

Your Case?

Reverse racism against people who have done nothing to deserve it is OK, is your case? Great case! Loser.

Too bad any attempt to engage in discussion with you is like playing scrabble with a 4-year old. They can see the letters, maybe spell a few words, but definitions and concepts are out of their reach.

Similarly, you probably never understood when yourMommy told you it was wrong to pull the wings from flies

Come back when you've scrambled your way up from your lizard brain and become acquainted with your mammal brain. Your corpus colossum either never developed or has been severed.

Originally Posted by doughboyshredder

Never thought of it as being a slur.

right. because a team of professional victims and race baiters dont deploy whenever it is used

so go ahead and tell me which of the two reasons in the OP is most responsible for this double standard?

Its because things are only offensive if someone lets them be.

Someone starts using fat insults to me?? It is going to be hard for me to not let it bother me.. WHY? Because I was.. still am somewhat...

You could call me a whole bunch of other things considered offensive and I could care less... it might make me not like you, but it isn't going to hurt me... Call me the derogatory white names. I don't care, I had no control over what color I was born, and I am not racist. There is nothing for me to feel bad about there.

People need to get over it, take back the words, and be proud of who they are and not let others hurt them...

and yeah, people shouldn't use words that they know are likely to hurt other people, but you can't control others, only yourself, and letting some racial slur bother you is giving someone else power that they don't deserve. The words people use say a whole lot more about them than about who they are talking about.

How many times have you seen a white person use a racial slur in hate...
How many times have you seen a black/asian/latino.... use a racial slur in hate....

Originally Posted by nickwm21

How many times have you seen a white person use a racial slur in hate...
How many times have you seen a black/asian/latino.... use a racial slur in hate....

Plenty from whites, blacks and Latinos. Unless you live in whitesville USA you cannot escape hearing racial slurs.

Originally Posted by nickwm21

How many times have you seen a black/asian/latino.... use a racial slur in hate....

heard plenty of Chinese at work use gwailo.

plenty of Thais making fun of farangs