(08-20-2018 01:27 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote: (08-20-2018 01:22 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote: (08-20-2018 12:34 PM)JustAnotherAustinOwlStill Wrote: In answer to Owlnumbers' question - no, I have never used the n-word. Ever. Never would occur to me.
Honestly don't know if you and OO are being delusional or disingenuous, or just genuinely so out of touch you believe your constant nonsense rationalizations of Trump's racism, but I don't really care any more.
Adios!
So, more name calling, another exit, and a bit of cultural appropriation. I guess you really do think of anybody who disagrees with you as a deplorable monster.
I remember my mother telling me not to use that word, so certainly I must have used it at some point. If you can attest that you have NEVER used that word, then I guess you must have been brought up in an ultra left wing household that taught you political correctness before you could speak.
Have you never referred to anybody as a dog? I have been referred to as a dog. You did it, when you said I was reacting to dog whistles. But others have done so as well, and in a less malevolent manner. I have been called a sly old dog, and a salty old dog, and good old dog (how does old seem to always get into that?) Doggone it all. Even had a former girl friend tell me I was a dog.
I am getting tired of your holier-than-anybody act, so adios. Vaya con Dios. Have a safe trip without hearing other opinions. May all your communications be PC.
Wait, wait, wait. Are you actually saying that the only reasonable reason someone has never used the n-word is because they were raised in an ultra left wing household?
So does that mean all other households across the political spectrum either use the word freely or do not teach their children not to use racial epithets?
So now not using racial epithets is an action that is exclusive to the far left?
I think children repeat what they hear from adults and other kids. If one escapes the first ten years of their life without hearing certain words and using them if in those ten years they need no correction, then I don't know what else it can attributed to. Maybe he was taken to rallies as a tot.
I was raised in an 85% hispanic community. I remember vividly a friend's mother correcting him when he described another friend of ours as "mexican". He had to ask what terms t use, and she told him "latino", and for whites, "anglo", a convention I stick with to this day, despite a personal preference for "Tejano" over Latino. What exactly does latino mean? Latin was the language of Italians and clerics.
I has been chastised, many years ago, for using the terms "colored" and "negro". I have stopped using them, generaly using the term"black" now.
Regardless of what words I have used, and regardless of the words used against me, I have never felt any hatred toward any group based on race or ethnicity. Not once.
swo I get tired of all these labels being being pinned on me. I am not a monster, and I am not a deplorable, nor am I a bitter clinger.
I have had Anglo friends refer to me as a "mexican", and I have had mexican friends (mexican means a citizen of mexico, remember?) refer to me as "gringo". The key words there are "friends". The context and intent of words need to be taken into account.
I watch the TV show "Power", and if the N-word hurts your sensibilities, don't watch it. They even refer to latinos as "Spanish N----rs". A mostly black cast, a black producer, but they all use the word. Maybe 100 times or more an hour. Go complain to the network that they are racist.
Power