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Post by The Herald Erjen on Sept 24, 2017 6:28:05 GMT
Gee, I guess this means that now I can't use words like "sodomite" and "heathen" on Facebook, because that wouldn't be politically correct.
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Post by scienceisgod on Sept 24, 2017 8:02:42 GMT
And not a single liberal will be able to explain how this helps their bottom line, because it won't even occur to them.
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Sept 24, 2017 8:21:29 GMT
And not a single liberal will be able to explain how this helps their bottom line, because it won't even occur to them. Liberals have hearts as big as Texas and brains about the size of a pea. Several times on this board I have been called a ginger (in a derogatory manner) by creepy globalist parasites, just because I was born with red hair. Hey, isn't that hate speech? If I get together with enough other gingers and we make big-enough asses of ourselves in public can we get the word ginger outlawed? No, probably not. It just doesn't work that way.
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Post by Aj_June on Sept 24, 2017 10:29:09 GMT
Don't agree with anyone using gingers as slur. Nor do I believe it is right to call someone heathen or sodomite. We can always use mild insults such as "idiot", "moron", and "stupid" when we lose patience when someone is acting stupid. I have never used words such as "bitch" or c word either. My go to insult is "idiot".
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Sept 24, 2017 10:41:15 GMT
Don't agree with anyone using gingers as slur. Nor do I believe it is right to call someone heathen or sodomite. We can always use mild insults such as "idiot", "moron", and "stupid" when we lose patience when someone is acting stupid. I have never used words such as "bitch" or c word either. My go to insult is "idiot". If I recall my schooling, an idiot is someone with an IQ of 25 or less. Where is the idiot who chose to be a idiot?
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Post by Aj_June on Sept 24, 2017 10:46:21 GMT
Don't agree with anyone using gingers as slur. Nor do I believe it is right to call someone heathen or sodomite. We can always use mild insults such as "idiot", "moron", and "stupid" when we lose patience when someone is acting stupid. I have never used words such as "bitch" or c word either. My go to insult is "idiot". If I recall my schooling, an idiot is someone with an IQ of 25 or less. Where is the idiot who chose to be a idiot? I was not aware of that meaning of idiot. In my culture it is used for someone who is not very bright but it is not quantified in sense of any particular IQ level. I personally use idiot for someone who is persistently showing no desire to learn or accept his or her mistake even when explained a number of times. I don't resort to calling someone an idiot on his or her first or second mistake.
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Post by phludowin on Sept 24, 2017 10:52:41 GMT
Several times on this board I have been called a ginger (in a derogatory manner) by creepy globalist parasites, just because I was born with red hair. Hey, isn't that hate speech? Case closed.
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Sept 24, 2017 10:54:49 GMT
Several times on this board I have been called a ginger (in a derogatory manner) by creepy globalist parasites, just because I was born with red hair. Hey, isn't that hate speech? Case closed. Sue me, Mr. Golden Ratio.
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Post by cupcakes on Sept 24, 2017 14:36:18 GMT
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Post by Cinemachinery on Sept 24, 2017 18:09:43 GMT
A private entity can control the use of its property?!
OPPRESSION! FREE SPEECH!
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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Sept 24, 2017 19:33:07 GMT
Don't agree with anyone using gingers as slur. Nor do I believe it is right to call someone heathen or sodomite. We can always use mild insults such as "idiot", "moron", and "stupid" when we lose patience when someone is acting stupid. I have never used words such as "bitch" or c word either. My go to insult is "idiot". I had no idea "ginger" was a slur. I've been called out on this board for calling someone a moron. So, my new go-to insult comes from the wisdom of 1950's cartoons, when Bugs Bunny would say about someone stupid, "What a maroon." It's a play on the word 'moron'.
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Post by scienceisgod on Sept 26, 2017 5:53:24 GMT
A private entity can control the use of its property?! OPPRESSION! FREE SPEECH! Isn't Facebook doing this on behalf of government? Germany and China were going to kick them out.
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Post by Aj_June on Sept 28, 2017 10:18:55 GMT
Don't agree with anyone using gingers as slur. Nor do I believe it is right to call someone heathen or sodomite. We can always use mild insults such as "idiot", "moron", and "stupid" when we lose patience when someone is acting stupid. I have never used words such as "bitch" or c word either. My go to insult is "idiot". I had no idea "ginger" was a slur. I've been called out on this board for calling someone a moron. So, my new go-to insult comes from the wisdom of 1950's cartoons, when Bugs Bunny would say about someone stupid, "What a maroon." It's a play on the word 'moron'. To be honest, I have seen white people often taking liberties with the word. While, some uses may be playful and used against people whom you consider deserving of light insults it is never good to use any term related to looks as a sort of insult. What a maroon is a good way to get your point across even though "moron" itself is not that derogatory in the first place (as far as I am concerned).
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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Sept 28, 2017 16:25:39 GMT
I had no idea "ginger" was a slur. I've been called out on this board for calling someone a moron. So, my new go-to insult comes from the wisdom of 1950's cartoons, when Bugs Bunny would say about someone stupid, "What a maroon." It's a play on the word 'moron'. To be honest, I have seen white people often taking liberties with the word. While, some uses may be playful and used against people whom you consider deserving of light insults it is never good to use any term related to looks as a sort of insult. What a maroon is a good way to get your point across even though "moron" itself is not that derogatory in the first place (as far as I am concerned). To me, either, but at the company I used to work for, I got 'written up' for using the word 'moron' - "someone in this office might have an intellectually challenged relative, and that word might be offensive to them". TBH, the powers that be at that company were morons. and to call them that was an insult to morons!
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Post by Cinemachinery on Sept 28, 2017 16:47:06 GMT
I had no idea "ginger" was a slur. I've been called out on this board for calling someone a moron. So, my new go-to insult comes from the wisdom of 1950's cartoons, when Bugs Bunny would say about someone stupid, "What a maroon." It's a play on the word 'moron'. To be honest, I have seen white people often taking liberties with the word. While, some uses may be playful and used against people whom you consider deserving of light insults it is never good to use any term related to looks as a sort of insult. What a maroon is a good way to get your point across even though "moron" itself is not that derogatory in the first place (as far as I am concerned). I've never understood the "ginger" thing. I never even heard it until South Park lampooned the UK kid's "Gingers have souls!" video, which I thought was, in itself, more just a BS meme using a pretty common term for "red head"... Then suddenly it's an insult. Weird.
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Post by Aj_June on Sept 28, 2017 22:00:35 GMT
To be honest, I have seen white people often taking liberties with the word. While, some uses may be playful and used against people whom you consider deserving of light insults it is never good to use any term related to looks as a sort of insult. What a maroon is a good way to get your point across even though "moron" itself is not that derogatory in the first place (as far as I am concerned). I've never understood the "ginger" thing. I never even heard it until South Park lampooned the UK kid's "Gingers have souls!" video, which I thought was, in itself, more just a BS meme using a pretty common term for "red head"... Then suddenly it's an insult. Weird. From what I have seen, many people use the word ginger in a derogatory sense to make fun of people. Even if a person is deserving of insults it is never a good idea to use his or her skin colour/hair colour or any other trait over which the person has no control as an insult. Consider this article from the Guardian on this issue. Seeing red: why we need to be sensitive about using the word 'ginger'
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Post by Aj_June on Sept 28, 2017 22:37:23 GMT
To be honest, I have seen white people often taking liberties with the word. While, some uses may be playful and used against people whom you consider deserving of light insults it is never good to use any term related to looks as a sort of insult. What a maroon is a good way to get your point across even though "moron" itself is not that derogatory in the first place (as far as I am concerned). I've never understood the "ginger" thing. I never even heard it until South Park lampooned the UK kid's "Gingers have souls!" video, which I thought was, in itself, more just a BS meme using a pretty common term for "red head"... Then suddenly it's an insult. Weird. Just remember that repeated use of the word "ginger" in casual funny/mild derogatory/sexually offensive manner may look alright in particular instances but collectively it adds to the word becoming more and more of an insult. For example, If I find Erjen an idiot then I will call him an idiot. To call him ginger moron is wrong (which has happened on this board a number of times). It makes the entire people who are ginger feel as if they are stupid partly for being gingers.
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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Sept 28, 2017 22:46:24 GMT
I've never understood the "ginger" thing. I never even heard it until South Park lampooned the UK kid's "Gingers have souls!" video, which I thought was, in itself, more just a BS meme using a pretty common term for "red head"... Then suddenly it's an insult. Weird. From what I have seen, many people use the word ginger in a derogatory sense to make fun of people. Even if a person is deserving of insults it is never a good idea to use his or her skin colour/hair colour or any other trait over which the person has no control as an insult. Consider this article from the Guardian on this issue... Seeing red: why we need to be sensitive about using the word 'ginger'From reading your post, this seems to be a phenomenon that is not prevalent in the US, it seems to be a UK thing. But, in the US, as recently as the 1980's and 90's, there were derogatory blonde jokes about women with blonde hair. A friend of mine thinks that this is basic 'lizard brain' behavior, the old 'us against them' tribal survival thing. Too bad we have not evolved enough to not be threatened by diversity.
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Post by cupcakes on Sept 28, 2017 22:49:29 GMT
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Post by Aj_June on Sept 28, 2017 22:52:01 GMT
From what I have seen, many people use the word ginger in a derogatory sense to make fun of people. Even if a person is deserving of insults it is never a good idea to use his or her skin colour/hair colour or any other trait over which the person has no control as an insult. Consider this article from the Guardian on this issue. Seeing red: why we need to be sensitive about using the word 'ginger'From reading your post, this seems to be a phenomenon that is not prevalent in the US, it seems to be a UK thing. But, in the US, as recently as the 1980's and 90's, there were derogatory blonde jokes about women with blonde hair. A friend of mine thinks that this is basic 'lizard brain' behavior, the old 'us against them' tribal survival thing. Too bad we have not evolved enough to not be threatened by diversity. I kind of agree with you that it is definitely a much bigger issue in UK where being red head is often perceived as being "Irish" or "Catholic" and where some people tend to associate people of red coloured hair as being weird/abnormal. That said in US too I think recently the word has started getting a negative connotation. Of course you are better judge of that as you are in USA but I have perceived that even some US posters use the word as an insult on message boards. Though I totally agree that it is a much bigger issue in UK. In spite of widespread belief that red haired people are mostly of Irish origin , the country with most percentage of red haired people is Scotland.
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