Zimmerman Jury seated. Trial starts Monday.
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Originally Posted by
Crow Hunter
That is something that just gets my goat. (Not against you Whiterabbit, the media)
Who cares what it "means"? It is how the word is used that is the problem.
"WOP" means With Out Papers, referring to Italian Immigrants that didn't have their immigration papers. But when it is used in a demeaning racially charged way it is a slur.
"Nigger" is a poorly pronounced version of Negro. Which is just a description of skin color. But when it is used demeaning racially charged way it is a slur.
"Faggot" is a term for a piece of wood. When it is used to denote a person's sexual orientation it is a slur.
"Bananna" is a term for a piece of fruit. When it is used to describe an Asian person it means Asian on the outside but Caucasian on the inside which is a slur.
"Cracker" actually has several meanings. From a group of farmers in Florida to a reference to poor whites having to eat cracked corn. When it is used in the phrase "Creepy Ass Cracka" it is not a descriptive term it is a racial slur just like all the rest.
I could go on and on.
It sickens me that we are doing anything other than DEMANDING as a society that hate speech is wrong, regardless of who utters the slur.
The media and everyone else should be treating the word "Cracker" the same way as all the other hate speech that is out there.
Wrong definition of "nigger". Jews were called "niggers" in the Pale of the Settlement, Poland. If you can find a website of Stalin's speeches he used the term "nigger".
I was too this by several old Jewish guys when I lived in Michigan. They found it very ironic that they "were once niggers living in ghettoes now its blacks who are niggers living in ghettoes."
So did I, needless to say!
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