EPTI watched some news channel (or maybe documentary) where they interviewed a black lady from the US and she referred to a group of black people in Africa as "African Americans". Fuck I lol'd ^_^
Dealing With Discrimination - Page 13
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Lucidity
South Africa603 Posts
I watched some news channel (or maybe documentary) where they interviewed a black lady from the US and she referred to a group of black people in Africa as "African Americans". Fuck I lol'd ^_^ | ||
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zbedlam
Australia549 Posts
They have no reason to think you are black or gay so this cannot be called discrimination. | ||
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Zerglot
Australia229 Posts
On July 12 2011 12:35 sylverfyre wrote: Freedom of speech isn't freedom to be a douchebag, it's so insulting when people stand on freedom of speech as a platform to defend racism/bigotry or other things that actually are NOT ok to say. Slander, Libel, and Threats are a few. It actually is, you moron. User was warned for this post | ||
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oogieogie
United States3657 Posts
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Lucidity
South Africa603 Posts
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Zhou
United States832 Posts
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CookieMaker
Canada880 Posts
On July 12 2011 09:08 Nizaris wrote: Just because i call ppl faggots all the time online or not, doesn't make me an homophobic. Its just a curse word. This is one of the most ignorant things I've ever heard. You may not be "afraid of gay people", but using the word "faggot" is NOT just a curse word. That is akin to calling someone a "nigger" and saying it's not racist, it's just a curse word. "Fuck" and "Shit" are curse words. "Faggot" and "Nigger" are derogatory terms referring to homosexuals and black people, respectively. IMO using such derogatory terms only displays the intolerance of the user. What is the point of the discrimination? | ||
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oogieogie
United States3657 Posts
On July 14 2011 03:28 CookieMaker wrote: This is one of the most ignorant things I've ever heard. You may not be "afraid of gay people", but using the word "faggot" is NOT just a curse word. That is akin to calling someone a "nigger" and saying it's not racist, it's just a curse word. "Fuck" and "Shit" are curse words. "Faggot" and "Nigger" are derogatory terms referring to homosexuals and black people, respectively. IMO using such derogatory terms only displays the intolerance of the user. What is the point of the discrimination? at least for the term "nigger" there are varies things of it like nigga that black n just other people in general use. I mean if people don't want to get called that word i am all for it, but they shouldn't expect different treatment when I or a non black person says the N word and then a black person says the same thing. Also yes i think nigga means hi or something, but still find a different word for that then a word that was used to discriminate. <---not sure | ||
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Cyba
Romania221 Posts
On July 14 2011 03:28 CookieMaker wrote: This is one of the most ignorant things I've ever heard. You may not be "afraid of gay people", but using the word "faggot" is NOT just a curse word. That is akin to calling someone a "nigger" and saying it's not racist, it's just a curse word. "Fuck" and "Shit" are curse words. "Faggot" and "Nigger" are derogatory terms referring to homosexuals and black people, respectively. IMO using such derogatory terms only displays the intolerance of the user. What is the point of the discrimination? Wrong, "fag" has it's own meaning nowdays and it's just another way of saying deuche bag basicly, should watch the South Park episode with the Harley fags ;p At any rate saying faggot and nigger shows nothing of intollerance, in fact it shows how not racist you are since you're saying it to a white guy 80% of the time and you're doing it without having any idea of the sexual orientation, color and so on of the other person. In fact think there was some gay SC player thread in the comunity section a while back, a gay guy was saying even he calls cheesers fags so ye defo v offensive. I can pretty much call you a really handsome young man, and if i do it in the right tone you'll be offended, it's all in the mind of the reciever not the words themselves. | ||
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reki-
Netherlands327 Posts
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TheGiz
Canada708 Posts
The former words however are somehow worse or deserving of more attention than "nigger." That's bullshit and you know it. I'm willing to bet that if we let the issue of discrimination fall by the wayside gays won't get special treatment and attention anymore, and that is exactly what they want. CookieMaker: The problem is that when people use these words they don't care if someone sees them as intolerant. Being intolerant only matters to someone who cares about that kind of thing. If you don't care then you're invincible. Sticks and stones; names may hurt you, but they don't hurt me, so I win. If someone calls me a "whop" or a "guido" or a "squarehead" or a "Nazi." I don't give a damn. I consider myself to be a more refined Italian than those terms indicate, and a pretty darn good German too. Those terms mean dick all to me; I am none of those things, and I don't care about your opinion one bit.IMO using such derogatory terms only displays the intolerance of the user. What is the point of the discrimination? So, if someone throws a derogatory comment your way, brush it off, know that it's wrong, and be the bigger person. | ||
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oogieogie
United States3657 Posts
On July 14 2011 04:11 TheGiz wrote: The worst part of this generation is the attack on the word "faggot" or "gay." Notice how while "nigger" is still a very bad word there aren't campaigns everywhere hoping to stamp out that word - people have just sort of let it go. The former words however are somehow worse or deserving of more attention than "nigger." That's bullshit and you know it. I'm willing to bet that if we let the issue of discrimination fall by the wayside gays won't get special treatment and attention anymore, and that is exactly what they want. The problem is that when people use these words they don't care if someone sees them as intolerant. Being intolerant only matters to someone who cares about that kind of thing. If you don't care then you're invincible. Sticks and stones; names may hurt you, but they don't hurt me, so I win. If someone calls me a "whop" or a "guido" or a "squarehead" or a "Nazi." I don't give a damn. I consider myself to be a more refined Italian than those terms indicate, and a pretty darn good German too. Those terms mean dick all to me; I am none of those things, and I don't care about your opinion one bit. So, if someone throws a derogatory comment your way, brush it off, know that it's wrong, and be the bigger person. While you can probably just do this while on the internet I personally would feel a need to defend myself from someone that called me these names in public. | ||
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Cyba
Romania221 Posts
On July 14 2011 04:11 TheGiz wrote: The worst part of this generation is the attack on the word "faggot" or "gay." Notice how while "nigger" is still a very bad word there aren't campaigns everywhere hoping to stamp out that word - people have just sort of let it go. The former words however are somehow worse or deserving of more attention than "nigger." That's bullshit and you know it. I'm willing to bet that if we let the issue of discrimination fall by the wayside gays won't get special treatment and attention anymore, and that is exactly what they want. The problem is that when people use these words they don't care if someone sees them as intolerant. Being intolerant only matters to someone who cares about that kind of thing. If you don't care then you're invincible. Sticks and stones; names may hurt you, but they don't hurt me, so I win. If someone calls me a "whop" or a "guido" or a "squarehead" or a "Nazi." I don't give a damn. I consider myself to be a more refined Italian than those terms indicate, and a pretty darn good German too. Those terms mean dick all to me; I am none of those things, and I don't care about your opinion one bit. So, if someone throws a derogatory comment your way, brush it off, know that it's wrong, and be the bigger person. You do realise nigger lost it's weight because of black rappers calling eachother that more then by their names....It's just a word now doesn't really imply any offense unless you feel like taking it as such. Specially since white people use it to talk to eachother sometimes too lol mostly because it reached the point where it implies some coolness. Reason fag etc are still seen as soooo much worse is because there's been nothing to relieve any tension off them. And since crap like a gay parade exists the vision of the average normal guy towards the gay comunity is....well there's few things lamer, so they take offense, especially if they are themselves the discriminating types. | ||
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BlackJack
United States10574 Posts
On July 14 2011 03:28 CookieMaker wrote: This is one of the most ignorant things I've ever heard. You may not be "afraid of gay people", but using the word "faggot" is NOT just a curse word. That is akin to calling someone a "nigger" and saying it's not racist, it's just a curse word. "Fuck" and "Shit" are curse words. "Faggot" and "Nigger" are derogatory terms referring to homosexuals and black people, respectively. IMO using such derogatory terms only displays the intolerance of the user. What is the point of the discrimination? You can't just look in the dictionary and tell us what the words mean and that must be the context we are using them in. Young adult vernacular isn't so simplistic.. Louie CK says it best (thats 2 louie CK videos I've posted in this thread now and both were set up perfectly) | ||
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Juanald
United States354 Posts
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ilovelings
Argentina776 Posts
On the other side, sometimes because someone was born on the other side of an imaginary line we call a border, he gets flamed to death. Look@the Region unlocking thread. Let's merge EU and NA but relegate LA and RU for no fucking reason at all. The truth is no one lags because of server location sharing, the language barrier excuse is bollocks (EU has like 15 different languages for fucks sakes) and frankly im sick and tired of this shit. On July 14 2011 01:40 Lucidity wrote: I think it's generally fine for most of the world, but that was just an example of trying to cater to "offenses" and the weird consequences. I watched some news channel (or maybe documentary) where they interviewed a black lady from the US and she referred to a group of black people in Africa as "African Americans". Fuck I lol'd ^_^ Hahahaha, I used to work for IBM and our boss was a politically correct New Yorker. In my country the meaning of "black or negro" has a neutral intent. It only has bad intent when you give it to the phrase but he was horrified we called some co-workers with a darker tone of skin Negro when it actually has the same same "value" as calling someone a Dude. Hey dude, come here = che negro veni. | ||
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bonifaceviii
Canada2890 Posts
On July 14 2011 05:18 ilovelings wrote: I once confused Quebec with the rest of Canada in front of a french canadian. He got Angry at me . Sometimes what it is perceived as being an asshole, has no bad intent. Fucking quebecois. You lost, get the hell over it! | ||
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xHassassin
United States270 Posts
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Destro
Netherlands1206 Posts
Its like mom jokes, which were once an offensive thing, most people just roll their eyes at anyone who says something like "i fukked ur mom bro" let idiots be idiots, the worst thing you can do is give them any kind of reaction | ||
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chilliamello
United States5 Posts
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