I meant it may mean something different for a black person, which I wouldn't call racist exactly. So, not exactly "for any person".
state Rep. Bettie Cook Scott used racial slurs, including “ching-chang” and “ching-chong,” when referring to her opponent, state Rep. Stephanie Chang
He said you could use it to express anger. Why did you switch it to "naturally"?For a white person it would only come naturally to someone who used/thought the word in anger a lot.
Ie a racist.
Can you explain? How can something mean two different things to two different people because of their skin color?I meant it may mean something different for a black person, which I wouldn't call racist exactly. So, not exactly "for any person".
He said you could use it to express anger. Why did you switch it to "naturally"?
Can you explain? How can something mean two different things to two different people because of their skin color?
Let's clarify here...
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wa...cial-slurs-against-state-rep-stephanie-chang/
Do we agree that anyone can be racist and use racial slurs or not? Because the way you worded it made it sound like it was the domain of white people only....which is incredibly racist.
No, historically it was just a slang derivation of an existing word made up by a scientist. It was like calling potatoes "taters".It doesn't just express anger, but a long historically significant meaning as a form of racially charged human degradation.
That seems like some deep psychiatry there. I'd like a link or something. How do you know that? And wouldn't it be worse if it didn't "spring to mind", i.e., if one premeditated the use of the word with the intent to insult?It wouldn't spring to mind as a natural curse unless you either use it or think it often enough.
All insult words - "fatso", "idiot", "four-eyes", "ginger", etc., are meant to demean. We all must choose how to respond. I don't think anyone should respond to any word by leaving a woman lying on the sidewalk gushing blood out of her head.Because the term was meant to apply to specific people. It's different when the people themselves use it as opposed to the people who used it historically as a racial epithet to demean them.
No, I meant my comment to refer to this specific incidence where a white and black person are interacting.
I qualified my comment as (for a white person), which doesn't mean (only for a white person). I used the phrase "a white person" because we were dealing with one example. You can use it to generalize to the rule:
If a white person uses the N word in anger directed at a black person, it is probably because they are probably a racist.
I have not stated or meant to state that other types of people can't be racist or act like a racist, just that this very specific instance is evidence of racism.
Please, you're breaking the rules. This is the News & Current Events Forum. We're provided small snippets of incomplete information from someone we don't know and we form passionate opinions about what we think happened and what it means.what was being done to the woman that provoked her to use the slur?
Maybe because the white woman was mentally ill. And cause this incident to happen. Stop using the N word. How hard is that. The video was bad. All I can say., I've never had this kind of incident. Maybe because I'm not rude or mean to people.https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/...bus-she-ended-up-in-the-hospital/65-585901473
Transit police know everyone involved. No charges have been filed, yet.
what was being done to the woman that provoked her to use the slur?
Someone hit her in the head, unprovoked.
You can't expect her reaction to be the reaction of a "good" passive non violent Christian if she is not.
White women should be able to ride a bus without being hit in the head also but apparently you dont agree.
I get that black people dont want to be the brunt of racism, no one does, but nothing gives anyone the right to become the racists.
When it becomes unsafe for anyone to simply be/exist in a neighborhood largely populated by a different race, regardless of what race, because if the color of their skin then there is a serious problem that needs addressed.
This is the United States in 2018. Not a third world country.
You sound like you are justifying violence. (shrugs) I don't see rational behavior with either party. You want to justify beating someone up over this - go for it. It's still not rational, but go ahead and justify it if you want too.
This is amusing. I'm in my 40s. I have been called that term, in public, by various people of the Caucasian persuasion since I was 9. I am not confrontational, so I usually lowered my head in humiliation and scurried away, as onlookers (also Caucasian) said nothing. That word and words like it, have been lobbed at me to make me feel isolated, ignorant and without hope. I've turned the cheek for over 3 decades and what has that gotten me? What did the louses who wanted to pick on the lone Black child or woman learn?
Am I to be stepped on?
I don't think so. People who use those words seek to shut us up and shove us into the space they believe we belong in. They are demanding something and I think they deserve a response.
She got a response.
This is the world we all helped make. She didn't get what she wanted, but she got what she asked for.
I agree the woman was stupid for escalating the situation. The people around her had already demonstrated the desire to commit violence against a person so escalating was wrong.
I have been the brunt of racism, the most notable was when a black man followed me around downtown Chicago screaming at me telling me to go back to my own country.. Even though I was scared of him, after an hour of it - he even waited outside stores to continue his tirade for goodness sake - I did finally just stop, turn around and yell that I was in my own country right now... not that it stopped him at all. I finally had to hide out in a store that was kind enough to allow me to stay for about three hours until he finally gave up and went on his way.
here's the deal, when you are attacked, feel cornered and are scared, you really don't know how your going to react - even if your a passive person. I was an idiot for turning around and yelling back that day too.. but I did.
Thing is, it shouldn't matter, that woman shouldn't have been hit... this is 2018. and we should be better than this in the land of the free, black, white or brown.
People blame this on Trump. But its the left victim blaming and it's the left making everything about race for the last decade attempting to instigate a race war...
Not so. Unless the article left off Native Americans.There was an article posted not too long ago that gave stats that showed that black people still are the target of hate crimes more than any other group.
Well, as we're reminded every time there is a video involving police brutality, we don't know what happened before the tape started rolling. It appears she got popped in the back of the head, and that there was an argument about passengers playing their music too loud, but we don't know if she asked them to turn it down nicely, or if she was rude from the beginning. So until all the facts are in I can't take sides. I think leaving her on the sidewalk was overboard, but as the saying goes, when you campaign for a butt whuppin', sometimes you get elected.
I can say that the history of that word is well known enough that she should have known better than to use it. And the rationale that because SOME black people use the word toward each other as an excuse that it is ok to call random black folks the n word is not a valid argument. There are SOME black people who are also against the use of the word in any context.
Did you see a different video? Both the video and the article say that her only "complaint" was that someone smacked her in the head.She was complaining about their music.
Did you see a different video? Both the video and the article say that her only "complaint" was that someone smacked her in the head.
We apologized to him, said we had been to the zoo and she had not seen many black people, especially ones only in a bathing suit. He actually did not get upset al all and pretended to be a gorilla with her.
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?