And yet they don't.
ZP - Anti Homosexual Slurs Why the new trend on Zero Punctuation ? 03.04.2009
#16
Posted 08 March 2009 - 05:47 PM
And yet they don't.
#17
Posted 08 March 2009 - 06:21 PM
Fags, Niggers, Kikes, Rag heads, Crackers, Mongies, Queers...all these words are meant to treasured. These are what makes all languages stand out.
This post has been edited by Game Over: 08 March 2009 - 06:21 PM
#19
Posted 08 March 2009 - 07:30 PM
The words in our langauge, in any language, are not neutral items marking ideas or objects. Many of our words have more than one meaning, and the meaning used depends on the other words used with it. So too the speaker can add dimension not obvious in the use of the word itself. The context in which words are used has always been, will always be, and should always be very greatly affected by context.
#20
Posted 08 March 2009 - 09:52 PM
Of course not, we're not all faggots and niggers.
In Rush Hour, an unwitting Jackie Chan refers to a black guy at a pool hall as a nigger. He got offended, but we did not. We knew he didn't mean anything offensive by it. Asian or no, when he said that word it was only offensive to someone who thought he was being offensive.
If anyone seriously believes Yahtzee is being offensive, let them get offended.
EDIT: The spacing is now logical.
EDIT2: Upon review, he clearly says Black-suited Spider-man goes out to beat up faggots because Black-suited Spider-man is stereotypically cold and masculine, and so he would call everyone he beats up a faggot. It's called a point-of-view shift, and they're fun.
EDIT3: See the end of EDIT2.
This post has been edited by TheOrator: 08 March 2009 - 10:08 PM
-John Carpenter's They Live
"God help us...in the future."
-Plan 9 from Outer Space
nooooo
#21
Posted 09 March 2009 - 02:52 AM
Its a word I made up.
Here is your reward for being so thick:
http://img12.imagesh...ge=49hitler.jpg
#22
Posted 09 March 2009 - 10:38 AM
Sounds racist and discriminatory to me, if a white speaker adds an offensive dimension but a black speaker does not, regardless of their intent.
#23
Posted 09 March 2009 - 02:24 PM
I don't have any idea what you're trying to prove here, which is odd since I've heard the "It's just a word; words are neutral; white people should be allowed to say "nigger" alongside black people in peace and harmony" argument recited by about about a thousand times now by young white kids on the internet. I have never understood it: it is utterly racist for white people to use the word "nigger" to describe black people, and we have about 400 years of usage to prove it. So why should white people be arguing to be allowed to use it now? Because they think black people are getting away with something when THEY use it? It's utterly different when black people use it.
You want to call that "racist" well yeah, go ahead. It sounds like you're trying to imagine some fantasy land where race doesn't actually matter to anyone. You are living in a fantasy land, concocted between periods in your sophomore year at city college. You are not talking about the real world.
#24
Posted 09 March 2009 - 05:19 PM
It's like having your own personal /b/, isn't it?
-The League Against Tedium
#26
Posted 09 March 2009 - 06:42 PM
I call this "fantasy land" the future, or rather my ideal vision of it. You can mock me all you want for being idealistic, but if you're going to support your perspective of the world through the last 400 years of racism over the last 40 years of civil rights movements, then by all means continue to wallow in the universe in which the film Crash is set; I'd much rather eliminate racism in all its forms, be it physical or lingual. And to be absolutely precise I am not 'fighting for the right' to shout nigger everywhere: I merely wish there to be consistency in the way we speak. As I stated, either a word is inherently offensive, or it isn't; it cannot be both, especially not depending on such a discriminatory policy as the colour of the speaker.
(Incidentally I enjoyed your implicit, condescending attacks on how old you think I am. If your response will be in the same manner, then to save time I can always lie down and say you win this one because I'm a dumb kid and you're a mature adult.)
#27
Posted 09 March 2009 - 08:57 PM
The problem with people making the claim to "idealism" is that they become insufferable around people with whom they may actually have a lot otherwise in common. For instance, I would like to see a society with fewer problems whose origin was race. Meanwhile I also believe that as an educated white professional, I should never use the word "nigger." While we agree on the former concept, you blow hard about how beause you are an "idelaist," and you make this out to be some superior vision of a future equality. Like, unless I agree that all words should be treated equally, then I can never be considerd an idealist, by any definition of that word.
Dude. I would love to see an elimination of violence and poverty, of racial divides, of sexism, etc. But in the meantime, and by that I mean the rest of my life, I will recognize when a guy is using the word "faggot" with hate on his mind and when it is in the context of humour ("a blonde walks into a bar ... "), and I will recognize that joke or no joke, I can't say the word "nigger."
Being an idealist doesn't have to mean the same thing as deciding to believe in the unlikely and the impossible, eg a perfectly descriptive language free of nuance, dialect and possible misinterpretation, such as no culture has had in the history of the species. Being an idealist instead can mean pragmatically working toward an achievable end, ie equality before the law and eradication of racial ghettos. And by being the latter sort of idealist, you won't come off as a kid too young to remember how annoying those people were who used the term "Politically Correct" to describe themselves (mid-80s to mid-90s).
This post has been edited by civilian_number_two: 10 March 2009 - 12:08 AM
#28
Posted 09 March 2009 - 09:41 PM
I wouldn't. Call me crazy, but homogenous things are boring, like jello...
but throw some pineapples in that bitch and the whole is better than the sum of its parts! If we are all the same, then an individual can't shine. Even if some individuals don't exactly shine, and we would like to just leave them in a closet for awhile. At least they aren't trying to change just so we can all get along.