Originally posted by whobdamandog
The most ironic thing about this thread is the fact the Fece's usually a huge spelling/grammar buff, however, just about every one of his posts within this thread contains some sort of spelling/grammatical error.. 🙄
Now go off and die like a good whob should.
I still don't think it's racist. I mean, some could take it as offensive, what with its resemblance to '******', but it's...um...not, I think. Negro is the same as Caucasian, isn't it?
Just FYI, the guy had "Negroid" on his birth-certificate because that used to be a technical term used by American anthropologists; I don't think it's used any more (this was the 60's?)
(I wish everyone in this thread had their location field filled in with something meaningful; something can be offensive in one place and okay in another).
Originally posted by FeceMan
Negro is the same as Caucasian, isn't it?
Nope, not by a longshot. "Caucasian" is both a medical and a legal term. "Negro" carries an old school stigma, and conjures images of the segregation era. Use that word in mixed company, and heads will turn, but the word "caucasian" won't that. Unless your over 65; "negro" shouldn't be in your vocabulary.
Originally posted by Gregory
Just FYI, the guy had "Negroid" on his birth-certificate because that used to be a technical term used by American anthropologists; I don't think it's used any more (this was the 60's?)(I wish everyone in this thread had their location field filled in with something meaningful; something can be offensive in one place and okay in another).
And I've yet seen an offensive location, if there's one.
is it comprehensible.....
Originally posted by soleran30
Unless your over 65; "negro" shouldn't be in your vocabulary.
I guess my nana has an exception. 😛 She used to have a cat called ******, in fact, everyone had a cat or dog named ****** back in those days. You can't call an animal that now, of course, maybe because it's offensive to the animal? I know many old people who have cats or dogs named ******, not because they are racist, but because it's a name that was very popular for pets way back when. 😉
Originally posted by powerfulone1987
it's not just this thread, People all over have multiple random things as their location. So you'd better get used to it.And I've yet seen an offensive location, if there's one.
I'm not "offended," and I'm perfectly used to it. At the same time, people who's argument amounts to, "Well where I live it's not offensive" shouldn't expect to get taken seriously if nobody knows where that is, since something that's socially acceptible in, say, Siberia might not be acceptable in NYC.
Originally posted by Capt_Fantastic
Or turd. Either applies in your case.Please! You sit there and act like an authority on race realtions and then turn around and intentionall fulfill every useless black stereotype in the book? What a joke.
"Or turd. Either applies in your case."
^Dude........that was weak.
I actually identify more with being Hawaiian. As far as the Black stuff; I just sayin' how it is.
Originally posted by finti
I think they have the issue of dont eat the yellow snow in both the places you mentioned
Do we all agree that whether "Negro" is offensive is a social question?
Can we all agree that different things are acceptable in different societies? What might be offensive in one place might not be in another.
...then can't we agree that it's silly to talk about whether "Negro" is offensive when all of the people talking about it are from different parts of the world and, what's more, nobody knows where the other people are?
That's all I'm saying.