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Black History Month edition of "Wait, that was racist?"

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by LongTimeListener, Feb 6, 2014.

  1. daemon

    daemon Well-Known Member

    It's called "every other month besides black history month." You really can't be this dense, can you? When a certain group feels there is a need to earmark a specific period of time to celebrate/study/honor the contributions/heritage/history of their group, it is because they feel that those contributions/heritage/history are drowned out by the contributions/heritage/history of the dominant group. And when even the dominant group agrees, a month like "Black History Month" is born.
     
  2. Captain_Kirk

    Captain_Kirk Well-Known Member

    For all the innocuous threads that run off the rails to lockdown, I must say it's quite refreshing to see how this thread has played out, when from the get go, it had the potential to go south, so to speak.

    it bolsters my faith in mankind. Well, mankind as represented by the members of this community.

    And it makes me hungry.
     
  3. Rusty Shackleford

    Rusty Shackleford Active Member

    The stylebook of racism:
    http://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/thesaurus-category/british/Offensive-words-for-people-according-to-nationality-or-ethnicity
     
  4. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    "Black" is not offensive. It's AP style.
     
  5. Mystery Meat II

    Mystery Meat II Well-Known Member

    Black as a noun can be offensive, which is what it's referencing. To wit: That black just stole my watermelon and fried chicken and white girlfriend! Replace "black" with "African-American" or "person of color" and you're in good shape.
     
  6. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    They can be black and not be American.

    If you say Chiwetel Ejiofor is the first African-American to win an Oscar for Best Actor since Forrest Whitaker, that's not accurate.

    Ejiofor is British.
     
  7. zagoshe

    zagoshe Well-Known Member

    EVERYTHING IS HOMOPHOBIC, RACIST AND SEXIST LET'S ALL BITCH AND MOAN ABOUT EVERY GOD DAMN THING AND MAKE EVERYONE AROUND US MISERABLE LIKE US.....
     
  8. Mystery Meat II

    Mystery Meat II Well-Known Member

    Then you would use black as a modifier. Black person. Black man. Black woman.

    But black as a noun -- you black! -- comes off weird on the ear at best.

    Didn't people get angry at someone here for calling a black person a black? This sounds somehow familiar.
     
  9. Bob Cook

    Bob Cook Active Member

    I know in Chicago that when white people start talking about "the blacks," it won't end well.
     
  10. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    Yeah, I was talking about it as an adjective, not a noun.
     
  11. Mystery Meat II

    Mystery Meat II Well-Known Member

    The link only included the noun form of black, not the adjective.

    black noun
    a black person. This word is sometimes considered offensive, so you should be very careful about using it.
     
  12. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    Not only stupid, but also a completely unoriginal cliche and posted by the most likely source.
     
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