Removed because people are such snowflakes

Removed because people are such snowflakes Apr 4, 2020 7:03:36 GMT onethreetwo likes this

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Post by moviebuffbrad on Apr 4, 2020 7:03:36 GMT

Apr 4, 2020 2:19:55 GMT Admin said:

Apr 4, 2020 1:57:38 GMT petrolino said:

If I display visible upset, I'm sure it's because I respect you (due to interractions on the Music board). We're all living through difficult times so I'm surprised you don't jack it all in, as others are doing.

I've never been less than unequivocal in my enthusiastic though untechnical support for this site and those running it (I assume voluntarily), as it's a virtual lifeline many of us would rather have than not have.

But if it gets closed down, we'll all need to be pragmatic like when imdb closed down, as there are worse things in life (like sudden death).

You mentioned jumping into a thread without knowing anything about the topic. I did the same. I do it a lot, actually. Especially when I want to know more about the subject. In this case, I'm interested in whether or not the, um, k-word was considered a racial slur back when Gandhi said it. If it was, is he considered a racist because he uttered the word, or because of what he was actually saying? And if isn't because he dared to speak the k-word, then why bother highlighting it, complete with its definition in parenthesis for those who don't know what it is?

So much potential here. I'd hate to see it go to waste simply because my presence is making you nervous, so I'll be moseying along now...

This is from Wikipedia, but probably the best answer anyone in this thread is going to give you:

Kaffir (Afrikaans/Arabic: "kaffer", /ˈkæfə/[1], Sarnami: "kafri"[2]) is a racist slur used to refer to an individual of Nguni ancestry. In the form of cafri, it evolved during the pre-colonial period as an equivalent of "negro". In Southern Africa, the term was later used to refer to the Bantu peoples. This designation came to be considered a pejorative by the mid-20th century.

In South Africa, the word was loosely used to refer to black South Africans and blacks in Suriname. It was adopted as a derogatory term after 1948 when the Apartheid system was established

Considering Gandhi literally died four months before Apartheid, I'm guessing it wasn't "the K word" when he said it. I'm also guessing the OP has an agenda here, primarily to excuse white European racism by saying "see look brown peeple racist 2". Unfortunately for white European racists, he sets about this by falsely implying Gandhi was going around dropping a [derogatory term used to describe black people in South Africa] that wasn't derogatory until (ironically) white people started using it after Gandhi was no longer even on this Earth.