Literotica need a disapprove button,

[Rotadom]

How can a word Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. uses fifteen times in his "I have a dream speech" be considered a slur?

Ask all of your black friend.

 

[icanhelp1]

Also @JohnEngelman

Negro refers to people of sub-Saharan African lineage. That it is no longer in popular usage is irrelevant to when it is used without a disparaging intent, such as we see with The United Negro College Fund and The National Council of Negro Women.

Negro also distinguishes people of African heritage from other dark skinned people such as Australian aborigines and certain peoples of the Indian subcontinent (the place where "Little Black Sambo" actually came from).

Only a race baiter would think the use of the word negro is a pejorative.

 

[Baztrachian]

Only a race baiter would think the use of the word negro is a pejorative.

Context matters. But in and of itself the word is just a word.

Speaking of context, a grad student at California State University at Sacramento did a thesis on a particular word and I wonder if the knee-jerkers who reflexively cry "RACIST!" will complain about it:

https://scholarworks.calstate.edu/concern/theses/bn999d53w



Is Deraan a RACIST!!! for using the word in question?

Funny thing, here she is:

 

[Baztrachian]

See, what would be racist here is saying that only someone of Miss Washington's ancestry should be allowed to write a thesis like this.

 

[Typo Fu Master]

While I agree that some words are more allowable than others, let's please not turn this into another race thread.

 

[Baztrachian]

While I agree that some words are more allowable than others, let's please not turn this into another race thread.

Speaking for myself I am not discussing race, just words that trigger some people.

I know a bunch of words that I have seen trigger people on this forum:

Pregnant
Impregnation
Loving Wives
Cheating
Non-Consent
Palestine
Epstein
etc.

In some respects it's nice to know who gets triggered and by what. You never know when such knowledge will come in handy.

 

[Typo Fu Master]

Speaking for myself I am not discussing race, just words that trigger some people.

I know a bunch of words that I have seen trigger people on this forum:

Pregnant
Impregnation
Loving Wives
Cheating
Non-Consent
Palestine
Epstein
etc.

In some respects it's nice to know who gets triggered and by what. You never know when such knowledge will come in handy.

Some words are inextricably linked to race. Those words will be brought up again. Probably in this thread.

I'm more curious about reactions to the addition of a "dislike" button and why or why not it would add value.

I'm also highly amused by the topic and the fact that it avoids being confined to the GB by focusing on racial bias.

Which should be allowed on the GB. But I digress.

 

[Baztrachian]

Some words are inextricably linked to race. Those words will be brought up again. Probably in this thread.

I'm more curious about reactions to the addition of a "dislike" button and why or why not it would add value.

I'm also highly amused by the topic and the fact that it avoids being confined to the GB by focusing on racial bias.

Which should be allowed on the GB. But I digress.

Perhaps a thumbs-down button would suffice?

 

[JohnEngelman]

She made an entire thread inviting it.

Don't think she needs a thread to defend her.

All BrightShinyGirl did was to explain Judaism.

I doubt BrightShinyGirl needs a thread to defend her.

I am here, if the need arises.

 

[Philthy_Phil]

so that I can vote down those who criticize Jews, Israel, and BrightShinyGirl.

There should be a shut the fuck up faggot button for when blood thirsty Jews defend the genocide they are partaking in.

 

[YDB95]

i agree with Adolf Hitler's statement in Mein Kampf, where he wrote:

"The intellectual abilities were schooled in the course of centuries. Today the Jew is seen as 'clever,' and so he has been at all times."

This is what I mean when I say your adulation for the Jews isn't the boon for them that you seem to think it is. One reason why anti-Semitism has persisted for so long is that a lot of people find it easy to hate people they perceive as being more intelligent than they are. Positive stereotypes can be just as dangerous (not to mention hurtful to the people being stereotyped) as negative ones.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. used the word "Negro" fifteen times in his "I have a dream speech," which is considered by many, including me to be one of the greatest speeches in the English language. I will continue to use the word "Negro," thank you very much.

That speech was in 1963. Back then, "Negro" was the accepted term. That is no longer the case, and has not been for quite some time. (The same goes for "Oriental", which you also use all the time.) Language evolves.

I do not use the other n word, the one that ends with r, but some Negroes use it.

Do your Black friends (if you have any) use it in your presence? Mine don't. They either spell it or say "the N-word". I don't know or care what they do when I'm not around; that's their business. My point here is, I've never seen any need to feel resentful that they can use it and I can't, since they don't use it. My own opinion is that no one should use it, but that's just me.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

There should be a shut the fuck up faggot button for when blood thirsty Jews defend the genocide they are partaking in.

There’s no genocide going on in Gaza. There’s been a cynical propaganda push to get people to make that false accusation without evidence to casually smear Jews.

It’s now devolved into an insulting verbal tic, like MAGA reflexively calling the Democratic Party, the “Democrat Party”.

The schoolmarm in me can’t help but correct the lazy knuckle-daggers who do either.

 

[JohnEngelman]

Ask all of your black friend.

They use the n word that ends with r.

 

[JohnEngelman]

There should be a shut the fuck up faggot button for when blood thirsty Jews defend the genocide they are partaking in.

Tell the Palestinians about genocide.



i don't think you care about the Palestinians. You are using them as an excuse to express your resent of the most accomplished 0.2% of the human poplation.

 

[JohnEngelman]

This is what I mean when I say your adulation for the Jews isn't the boon for them that you seem to think it is. One reason why anti-Semitism has persisted for so long is that a lot of people find it easy to hate people they perceive as being more intelligent than they are. Positive stereotypes can be just as dangerous (not to mention hurtful to the people being stereotyped) as negative ones.

Jew haters resent Jewish intelligence, success, and prosperity. I admire those aspects of Jews and rub those aspects in the faces of Jew haters because I think Jew haters are trash.

 

[JohnEngelman]

That speech was in 1963. Back then, "Negro" was the accepted term. That is no longer the case, and has not been for quite some time. (The same goes for "Oriental", which you also use all the time.) Language evolves.

Who makes these changes, and why am I obliged to honor them? I have never known an Oriental I did not like. I am white. Orientals tend to be more intelligent than whites. They have lower rates of crime and illegitimacy.

I expect China to become the world hegemon by the end of this century, if not sooner.

As intelligence becomes increasingly important to our economy, I expect the United States to be dominated by a high IQ cognitive elite consisting largely of Orientals and Jews. I am a Gentile.

 

[JohnEngelman]

Do your Black friends (if you have any) use it in your presence? Mine don't. They either spell it or say "the N-word". I don't know or care what they do when I'm not around; that's their business. My point here is, I've never seen any need to feel resentful that they can use it and I can't, since they don't use it. My own opinion is that no one should use it, but that's just me.

One of my best, and certainly most interesting, friends was a black college professor. He taught freshman English. Because he was attractive and charming, some of the girls (I consider 18 and 19 year old females to be girls) in his classes were infatuated with him. He had too much integrity to exploit that. He would invite me to parties at his apartment, where I was sometimes the only white person present. At those parties I only heard the n word used once.

He was working on a PhD. in English. He chose ancient Greek for his foreign language requirement. Once I asked him, "You already know French and German. Why are you choosing a language as difficult as ancient Greek?"

He answered, "I want to show those white boys what I can do."

 

[YDB95]

Who makes these changes, and why am I obliged to honor them?

No one person does, but the changes happen. And you're not obliged to honor them, but you don't get to decide it doesn't reflect poorly on you when you use outdated words like "Negro".

 

[glamorilla]

No one person does, but the changes happen. And you're not obliged to honor them, but you don't get to decide it doesn't reflect poorly on you when you use outdated words like "Negro".

fortunately you don't get to decide what words people can use.

 

[ll74]

fortunately you don't get to decide what words people can use.

They aren't doing that.

 

[glamorilla]

They aren't doing that.

fortunately neither do you.

 

[ll74]

fortunately neither do you.

How exciting

 

[JohnEngelman]

No one person does, but the changes happen. And you're not obliged to honor them, but you don't get to decide it doesn't reflect poorly on you when you use outdated words like "Negro".

Better "Negro" than the n word a lot of Negroes use.

 

[YDB95]

Better "Negro" than the n word a lot of Negroes use.

I won't even pretend to understand the point you're trying to make here. I will, though, say I'm not surprised you run in circles where that word is used.

 

[JohnEngelman]

I won't even pretend to understand the point you're trying to make here. I will, though, say I'm not surprised you run in circles where that word is used.

Try harder.