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If someone in my family, or a buddy calls me a mick or a wop, which aren't as inflammatory as the *n* word, it's different than someone who is neither, calling me that. Someone of the same background, or a good friend, isn't using it in a derogatory manner.
If someone I don't know well, but is clearly Italian calls me a wop, I know it's his way of trying to establish some commonality between us.
If someone who isn't a friend and isn't Italian uses it, it's offensive. He doesn't have the right to use it.
I'm sure people will argue that they don't care what people call them - but that's not the point - so I'm going to preemptively suggest people who don't get it read what I wrote above several times until it sinks in.
If a particular word is so offensive to a particular group why use it at all. How can a word be the holy grail of racism and offense and a term of endearment at the same time. Seems a bit divergent.
If a particular word is so offensive to a particular group why use it at all. How can a word be the holy grail of racism and offense and a term of endearment at the same time. Seems a bit divergent.
Female friends sometimes call one another the *b* word. Male friends call one another all kinds of things c-d will filter out. Are you suggesting that they should do the same with their bosses or parents or kids teachers?
And are you honestly this confused about how different language is appropriate in some situations and not at all in others?
"You might use this word in private and I wouldn't be surprised if you do but you know damn well you're not going around using that word in ear shot of black folks... Don't kid yourself...'
Here you go AGAIN, THINKING you know something and you DON'T have CLUE.
Me and my MANY black friends us it ALL the time when are together when discussing the black low lifes it describes.
I never hear any complaints when I hear, white people being called white people. So I think the politically correct business has gotten rather nauseating.
I don't see much difference between colored people and people of color.
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Side note, my brother had to deal with a major labor problem at one of his company's job sites, because a black guy and a Hispanic guy got into an argument. As the Hispanic guy was walking away, one of his buddies walks up to see what was going on. The Hispanic guy who was in the argument told his friend, in Spanish, "That black guy over there is an ass." The black guy heard it, but didn't speak Spanish. It went really downhill from there.
"Colored People" was the preferred term used in the segregated (maybe 40s but I wasn't around then) 50s and 60s to identify separate (and not equal) facilities for non-whites. So yes it has more negative connotations that "People of Color"
Interesting note - some refuse to use the term African American on the ground that it is not only inaccurate but divisive. That certainly does not make them racist.
"Colored People" was the preferred term used in the segregated (maybe 40s but I wasn't around then) 50s and 60s to identify separate (and not equal) facilities for non-whites. So yes it has more negative connotations that "People of Color"
Semantics.
Why not just stick with black then. I think we should only use the terms Negroid, Caucasoid and Mongoloid. That should pacify everyone.
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