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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on September 11, 2014, 11:34:50 AM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025518582
Oh my.
Archae (30,963 posts) Thu Sep 11, 2014, 08:03 AM
How many terms do we no longer use, besides racist ones that is?
I have a good friend who is an avid "Wheel Of Fortune" watcher, and she's in her 70's.
The young guy that was recently a contestant who has Down's syndrome, she described him as a "Mongoloid."
I hadn't heard that term in a long time.
The same woman uses the term "colored" for both blacks and Hispanics.
She's not racist at all, these are just terms she grew up with and never gave up.
Okay now, the franksolich racism test.
<<<uses "Mongoloid" all the time; it's a perfectly good scientific term.
However, as am reputed to not be prejudiced against the cerebrally-challenged, others don't get offended because they know how I really feel about things, and am using the term in its scientific sense.
<<<has never used "colored" in life, to describe blacks or those of Texan derivation.
Probably because of the place and time in which I grew up; it's always been "black," and as for the Hispanics, that's always been "Texan."
Unlike blue states, where racism is pervasive, out here in red-state Nebraska we don't have any "Hispanic" "problem." We have lots and lots of Texans, but no problems.
JustAnotherGen (12,225 posts) Thu Sep 11, 2014, 08:45 AM
2. Oriental
My great gramfeathers used that term . . . It's one that should well be frowned upon - and generally is. . . I hope.
<<<uses "Oriental" all the time, but generally not when referring to human beings.
<<<usually calls them what they specifically are, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Vietnamese, Laotians, Cambodians, Thais.
Prophet 451 (8,489 posts) Thu Sep 11, 2014, 09:11 AM
3. Still in general use here
Here (UK), "Asian" usually means someone of Indian or Pakistani descent so we usually refer to people of Chinese and Japanese extraction as "Oriental".
You know, the British used to have the terms "Near East" and "Far East."
The Near East is what's today called the "Middle East;" I dunno where the new Near East is.
<<<stubbornly uses "Near East" and "Far East" as the British did.
JustAnotherGen (12,225 posts) Thu Sep 11, 2014, 09:28 AM
8. You are in the UK - another response :-)
That same great gramfeathers? She was all Irish Protestant - family came here in the 1740's. That group of folks tended to marry only their own for a couple of hundred years.
Something I wonder if you've heard in your life (she was born in 1904) - Lace Curtain Irish.
The only people I've ever heard use it were her, her peers, and a few people I've met from London who at that time were in their mid 60's.
As in - "Ahhh - Lace Curtain - not Catholic".
Bluenorthwest (32,082 posts) Thu Sep 11, 2014, 09:57 AM
9. I have heard that term before, it is not about being Catholic or Prod, it is about having a bit of
money, which makes one Lace Curtain Irish, as opposed to being poor Shanty Irish.
My father did not care for the terms Lace Curtain and Shanty Irish, as he felt they were derogatory comments, critical of a people for being poor then critical again when they try to rise up. This sort of verbiage is fairly common toward many groups of minorities. The 'Lace Curtain' was supposed to denote an affectation of a class to which they did not belong and a display of wealth. Shanty was supposed to denote a lack of human value due to poverty and ignorance. There are counterpart terms for many minority groups.
<<<am at a quandary here.
There's lots and lots of those of Irish derivation here in Nebraska--the third-largest ethnic group, after the Danes and the Germans--but it's really difficult to describe them, as "Irish" Nebraskans in no way, shape, or form bear the least resemblence to any blue-state "Irish," especially the Bostonian sort.
Nye Bevan (16,894 posts) Thu Sep 11, 2014, 09:15 AM
4. I believe "Eskimo" is now considered non-politically correct
<<<still uses "Eskimo."
treestar (51,738 posts) Thu Sep 11, 2014, 09:16 AM
5. mentally retarded, which used to be the clinical term
<<<still freely uses "mentally retarded," as it's a good description of a scientific category of people.
TexasMommaWithAHat (80 posts) Thu Sep 11, 2014, 09:21 AM
6. Gypsy
has been replaced by "Roma," or "travelers." Probably others that I don't know about.
<<<still uses "gypsy;" it's a great word to describe a rather colorful group of people, not derogatory in the least.
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Why are the DUmmies fussing? They're the ones that like to put people in groups and call them victims so they can use them. What will or would they do when we all become just "people"?
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I can think of a few for the liberals and their associates.
Sodomites
Faggets
Queers
Idiots
Retards
Flamboyant freaks
Soulless
Heartless
Hatemongers
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My first response, who gives a shit?
Damn DUmmies always living in the past.
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Everyone is missing the point of the DUmmie's post, to be able to use the term "colored" when referring to dark skinned person without being called a racist for it.
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Everyone is missing the point of the DUmmie's post, to be able to use the term "colored" when referring to dark skinned person without being called a racist for it.
When my daughter was little, she referred to the African American race as "dark brown people".
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Caucasoid, Negroid, Mongoloid. Those were the 3 races for YEARS before some idiots decided they weren't good enough or were "ooooooffensive".
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Everyone is missing the point of the DUmmie's post, to be able to use the term "colored" when referring to dark skinned person without being called a racist for it.
I always liked the term "Gentleman of Color" as told to me by an elderly lawyer friend years ago.
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I can think of a few for the liberals and their associates.
Sodomites
Faggets
Queers
Idiots
Retards
Flamboyant freaks
Soulless
Heartless
Hatemongers
That's wrong. Very wrong. I hate to be the one to correct you, but...
1) It should be faggot instead of fagget.
2) You left out hypocrites.
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Nye Bevan (16,894 posts) Thu Sep 11, 2014, 09:15 AM
4. I believe "Eskimo" is now considered non-politically correct
Again, the question arises, why?
Probably some white ass, cracker*, Proglodyte decided it felt "guilty" that someone, somewhere used that perfectly good term.
sorry to all you crackers out there.
:-)
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That's wrong. Very wrong. I hate to be the one to correct you, but...
1) It should be faggot instead of fagget.
2) You left out hypocrites.
Thank you for that. My autocorrect on my tablet didn't fix faggot. It must be a politically correct tablet.
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"Democrat Party" has been replaced with "Progressive Death Cult."
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I can think of a few for the liberals and their associates.
Sodomites
Faggets
Queers
Idiots
Retards
Flamboyant freaks
Soulless
Heartless
Hatemongers
You forgot "Babykillers"
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Everyone is missing the point of the DUmmie's post, to be able to use the term "colored" when referring to dark skinned person without being called a racist for it.
I cannot understand why the DUmmies get all butthurt over 'colored people', but don't seem to mind 'people of color'. They look to be practically the same term to me.
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I cannot understand why the DUmmies get all butthurt over 'colored people', but don't seem to mind 'people of color'. They look to be practically the same term to me.
Because one had been around for quite a while and as DUmbocrats they have to rename everything from time to time.
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I cannot understand why the DUmmies get all butthurt over 'colored people', but don't seem to mind 'people of color'. They look to be practically the same term to me.
Unless they are referring to the NAACP. :whistling:
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There is a warpath on the word "Redskins".
I may have to resurrect my banned word campaign.
edit: grammar
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I no longer use the term "retard" any longer. I've switched to using DUmbass instead.
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At least "fundy rethug" and "rethuglicans" are still okay to use.
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I'm pretty sure libtard is still okay.
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Anybody remember this scene from Domino (great movie)?
(http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc50.2008/DominoKnapp/KnappPix/76.jpeg)
(http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc50.2008/DominoKnapp/KnappPix/77.jpeg)