Originally posted by botankus
This just in...Keebler has withdrawn its use of the word "cracker" when describing E.L. Fudge. Oops, guess they can't use "Fudge" since it might suggest "Black" People - oh, can't say that either. I give up.
Your joke was too long to be funny. Meaning because it was too long it wasn't funny
Originally posted by Capt_Fantastic
A racial slur? Are you kidding? What other way is there to use the term "tar baby"? I grew up in a town where the side of the Dariy-O said "Nigg*r don't be here when the sun goes down"! Either you know the meaning of 'tar baby' or you don't! Otherwise, you wouldn'd use it to illustrate your feelings.
2 things,
- Romney isn't from the south.
- Tar baby has been defined in other posts as a situation that is almost impossible to get out of. No racial innuendo there.
Again, it's just PCness run amok.
This is horseshit, the dictionary doesn't even give the racial slur as a second or third meaning:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tar%20baby
Damn PC liberals, always tryna hold da conservative man down.
its terminology adopted from old southern racist storytelling.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Remus
the main character uncle remus, a kindly and obedient slave who tells stories to white children. the "tar baby" was an element of one of those stories, and the source of the definition.
Originally posted by Capt_Fantastic
A racial slur? Are you kidding? What other way is there to use the term "tar baby"? I grew up in a town where the side of the Dariy-O said "Nigg*r don't be here when the sun goes down"! Either you know the meaning of 'tar baby' or you don't! Otherwise, you wouldn'd use it to illustrate your feelings.
And I grew up in a town where Tar Baby means a sticky situation that you got yourself into....So what was the point of that post? Look at the context he used it in. Can you honestly tell me he meant it as a racial slur?
Originally posted by Darth Macabre
And I grew up in a town where Tar Baby means a sticky situation that you got yourself into....So what was the point of that post? Look at the context he used it in. Can you honestly tell me he meant it as a racial slur?
How can you racially insult a construction project? Using racist terms to describe them isn't an insult to the project, it's an insult to people who've been called tar babies in the past.
Originally posted by Capt_Fantastic
How can you racially insult a construction project? Using racist terms to describe them isn't an insult to the project, it's an insult to people who've been called tar babies in the past.
I've been called a "cracker" or "Kracka" in the past....Does that mean I should go crying all the time I hear the words "saltine" or "ritz"?
People fail to see the context something is used...Just like the word for a female dog...If you're talking about a woman, of course it's rude...But if you're talking about a dog, it's appropriate.
Originally posted by Capt_Fantastic
How can you racially insult a construction project? Using racist terms to describe them isn't an insult to the project, it's an insult to people who've been called tar babies in the past.
So if I call a black person a sticky mud-hole, and some other people start adopting it as a racial slur in my area. Then someone in another part of the country used it in a different context and said "this is worse then being in a sticky mudhole", they'd be racist?
of course they wouldn't, just because some people associate the term with racism doesn't mean the term can't be used properly in a non derogatory context. That's giving racists way to much power.
Originally posted by BackFire
So if I call a black person a sticky mud-hole, and some other people start adopting it as a racial slur in my area. Then someone in another part of the country used it in a different context and said "this is worse then being in a sticky mudhole", they'd be racist?of course they wouldn't, just because some people associate the term with racism doesn't mean the term can't be used properly in a non derogatory context. That's giving racists way to much power.
Okay. I'll yeild in my belief that it's an outdated term and subscribe to the idea that people north of Washington don't know what the term "tar baby" means south of Washington.