Dänk 666
1/14/2012 8:32:00 PM
On Jan 13, 10:04 am, "Sid9" <sid9@ bellsouth.net> wrote:
> "Dänk 420" <dank...@rocketmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:194a53f6-beb4-4b29-b69e-10d3fb2f4152@iv6g2000pbc.googlegroups.com...
>
> > On Jan 12, 10:18 pm, "Winston Smith, American Patrio [sic]" quacked:
> >> The so-aptly-named rightards are operating on the mistaken belief that
> >> any
> >> attempt to characterize or label a person who happens to be black with a
> >> descriptive that has no denotation that distinguishes based on race is
> >> nonetheless "racist."
>
> > When I lived in Nevada during the 1990s, a member of the state
> > legislature told a joke that said "Buckwheat had converted to Islam
> > and changed his name to Kareem of Wheat." Blacks instantly accused
> > him of racism, though there is nothing that can possibly be construed
> > as racist in the joke. "Buckwheat" (the name of a popular television
> > character)? "Islam" (a popular world RELIGION)? "Kareem" (a name of
> > a popular basketball player)? But blacks felt a need to victimized,
> > so they burned the white Nevada legislator at the proverbial stake.
>
> As he well deserved!
Which just illustrates my point. Zepp can then be denounced as racist
for using a nickname that "sounds" racist. I guarantee that white
person who used the same nickname for a left-wing black judge, that
liberals would scream racism, even though they couldn't articulate
exactly what was racist about it. Just like "Kareem of Wheat."
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"When someone interprets as derogatory almost anything that is said
about him (or about groups with whom he identifies) we conclude that
he has inferiority feelings or low self-esteem. This tendency is
pronounced among minority rights advocates, whether or not they belong
to the minority groups whose rights they defend. They are
hypersensitive about the words used to designate minorities. The terms
'negro,' 'oriental,' 'handicapped' or 'chick' for an African, an
Asian, a disabled person or a woman originally had no derogatory
connotation. 'Broad' and 'chick' were merely the feminine equivalents
of 'guy,' 'dude' or 'fellow.' The negative connotations have been
attached to these terms by the activists themselves."
-- Industrial Society and Its Future