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Sidstyler wrote:

evilsponge wrote:Are these the arguments racism apologists are using these days? Don't be intolerant of my intolerance?

He said one word, one time. This is all it takes to make one a racist?

I've said "the N-word" before, too. Without knowing anything at all about the context in which it was used, would you say I'm a racist too?

Yes.

There's more to just that he said it but also the context that he said it in. It was clearly said and meant as a racist comment.

Frazzled wrote:

Sidstyler wrote:

evilsponge wrote:Are these the arguments racism apologists are using these days? Don't be intolerant of my intolerance?

He said one word, one time. This is all it takes to make one a racist?

I've said "the N-word" before, too. Without knowing anything at all about the context in which it was used, would you say I'm a racist too?

Yes.

So then that's it? Once a racist, always a racist? What if Sid was doing a report on racism for a sociology class and it was used in some "proper" context? What if he was in a play or reenactment that required him to use that word? What if he was a black guy? For all you know he could be. That last one makes it okay I'm pretty sure. I've seen Boondocks and stand-up comedy before. I know that's acceptable. What about when I'm called a "cracker"? It's old slang, but I've still heard it before. It must be okay though because no one seems to care, because it wasn't directed at a "minority".

I think the PC movement has spiraled out of control.

daedalus wrote:

Frazzled wrote:

Sidstyler wrote:

evilsponge wrote:Are these the arguments racism apologists are using these days? Don't be intolerant of my intolerance?

He said one word, one time. This is all it takes to make one a racist?

I've said "the N-word" before, too. Without knowing anything at all about the context in which it was used, would you say I'm a racist too?

Yes.

So then that's it? Once a racist, always a racist? What if Sid was doing a report on racism for a sociology class and it was used in some "proper" context? What if he was in a play or reenactment that required him to use that word? What if he was a black guy? For all you know he could be. That last one makes it okay I'm pretty sure. I've seen Boondocks and stand-up comedy before. I know that's acceptable. What about when I'm called a "cracker"? It's old slang, but I've still heard it before. It must be okay though because no one seems to care, because it wasn't directed at a "minority".

I think the PC movement has spiraled out of control.

There is no proper cotext.
Once a racist always a racist.

Sorry next time don't ask a question you don't want the answer to.

Explain how then it's not when the comment he made was "On the ground, *" when they were talking about tazering. Kinda hard to take that out of context.

I don't know if Samuel Clemons would agree, but that's how you feel about it and you're as entitled to that feeling as people like JarJar may or may not be about his (assuming he IS racist), just as I'm just as entitled to play the devils advocate.


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12thRonin wrote:Explain how then it's not when the comment he made was "On the ground, *" when they were talking about tazering. Kinda hard to take that out of context.

I wasn't talking about the show. I was talking about Sidstyler.

So if some really weird person names their kid after the N word then that makes all the friends and teachers of that child racists for calling him that?

it isn't easy to define when and why something goes from not being racist to being racist and the other way round. An internet forum is also not the best place to try and talk about these things as you can say what you want as you are far away and nobody know you.

AT-43.CO.UK wrote:it isn't easy to define when and why something goes from not being racist to being racist and the other way round. An internet forum is also not the best place to try and talk about these things as you can say what you want as you are far away and nobody know you.

I think that makes it the perfect place. It's, ironically, much easier to pick the real person out from the facade they hide behind because they're letting you know how they really feel.

why has no one answered the question of why its okay for every rapper, comedian, cartoon to use the N Word in a nonracist way? But its not okay for someone else to use that word and it not be as a racist attack?
I have used the word a number of times as I sing along to my favorite hip hop artists. Since context doesnt matter to you guys, am I a racist? Im being serious too.

Racial/Ethnic/Religious slurs should never be used by anyone, including black/latino/white rappers. They have no place in civilized society. They mark the user as a loser.

Frazzled wrote:
Once a racist always a racist.

This is bs. People can out-grow how they were raised.


That's all I have to say on this subject.

That, and IBL.

AT-43.CO.UK wrote: An internet forum is also not the best place to try and talk about these things as you can say what you want as you are far away and nobody know you.

This board and thread certainly isn't anyway.