rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

held against you a comment about their adopted kid that you made when you were TWELVE also comes to mind!

I thought that comment sounded adorable btw.

yeah no it was dumb of his administrators to object to that

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I literally have never been in a situation where I had to yell at black kids, let alone one that requires me to inform one that he's acting snobby, ymmv

jesus christ Whiney whats a matter with you

I think I just remember shitty shit a lot; kind of got a fixedly pessimistic memory-motor.

I quit teaching for 6 years after that school. E., you know which one it is, I think.

A fellow in the office and I play Words With Friends, and we were talking about how sometimes you get the perfect word to use for points, but it just doesn't feel right. Like even if you get a triple-letter, you still don't want to play RAPE against a female friend.

whats even worse is when you try to play NEGRO against a black friend and learn that it isnt even a word

yeah, whats the matter with ME

Hahaha. Oh OK, that make s a lot of sense now if I'm thinking of the right one. Remy btw - you need to claim your requested confectioneries at some point. :)

well it was a profoundly stupid thing to say

tell me about all the reasons, besides being a teacher, that you have to yell at black kids for being snobby

you never hear anybody use the word "scrutable" do you?

"typical scrutable Italian"

haha i didn't even realize it was a word

Italian scrutable flatbread

crütable

C'mon, everybody yells at kids, it's our right as old people.

tbh, I have never called a kid snobby

tell me about all the reasons, besides being a teacher, that you have to yell at black kids for being snobby

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When they only steal the hood ornaments from Mercs and BMWs but not my Toyota.

yeah honestly it's hard for me to think of a teaching context where calling a kid snobby would come up

omg Phil

i've literally never yelled at a kid, black or white, and couldnt imagine a single situation where i'd have to tell a black kid he was snobby, let alone it happening so frequently in my life that I'd seek anonymous advice on the internet on how to handle this constant and unwelcome occurance

tell me about all the reasons, besides being a teacher, that you have to yell at black kids for being snobby

first of all, we are talking about teachers, and secondly, saying "black" is just making an unnecessary racial distinction that you damn well know should be irrelevant

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Oh, frogbspaws

neverending entertainment

\o_O/

iunno frog, read the thread i guess

That was a joke attempt that obvs went nowhere, DJP. I am nowhere near edgy enough to get away with that, clearly.

i've literally never yelled at a kid, black or white

Whaaaaa . . . ? I yell at my teenage niece and nephew all the time.

They're white btw

iunno frog, read the thread i guess

My mother used the word "uppity" on phone w me the other day, in anger with a badly behaved kid in her class who also happened to be black

i get that this is your whole shtick Whiney but c'mon man

Laurel didnt ask, darrgh did

i mean we're clearly talking about a teacher/student relationship here

in fairness to frogbs, I wouldn't dig very deeply into Skipping 2032 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all either

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http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-thing?.out=jpg&size=l&tid=36465418

How do ya like them apples?

wow, uh, i just clicked on whiney's link at work and um whoops

Oh, frogbspaws

gbsp

kind of amazed that so many are/were unaware of the meaning of "gypped/jipped". thought it was pretty well understood that that's a slur. but i just checked with my gf, and she defended it, first saying that it's spelled differently, then that "there aren't many of them here" (in america). uh...

then again, i thoughtlessly used "mongoloid" to mean idiot in a conversation with a chinese friend a few years ago, and she went off on me quick.

frogs cannot be an actual person

i love the moments on this thread where someone goes to gis with a "frog [x]" search and comes back with something

'mongolien' still means someone w/ downs syndrome in french

(there is also no word for political correctness)

i thoughtlessly used "mongoloid" to mean idiot in a conversation with a chinese friend a few years ago

How old are you Contenderizer? Just curious cause I thought that had been out of use for a really long time in the US. UK is a diff story. "Mong" is still used fairly frequently there, I think.

sort of a blessing, "racist" is better than "politically incorrect" anyway

a note from the mac osx dictionary (oxfords)

usage: 1 The terms Mongoloid, Negroid, Caucasoid, and Australoid were introduced by 19th-century anthropologists attempting to classify human racial types, but today they are recognized as having very limited validity as scientific categories. Although occasionally used when making broad generalizations about the world's populations, in most modern contexts they are potentially offensive, especially when used of individuals. Instead, the names of specific peoples or nationalities should be used wherever possible. 2 The term mongol, or Mongoloid, was adopted in the late 19th century to refer to a person with Down syndrome, owing to the similarity of some of the physical symptoms of the disorder with the normal facial characteristics of eastern Asian people. The syndrome itself was thus called mongolism. In modern English, this use of mongol (and related forms) is unacceptable and is considered offensive. In scientific, as well as in most general contexts, mongolism has been replaced by the term Down syndrome (first recorded in the early 1960s).

I didn't mean that it's technically considered OK to still say Mong in the UK just that you still hear it there a lot more than you do here ime.

I tried to come up with a joke centered around the phrase "among friends" for like 90 seconds before re-evaluating my priorities

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZb4vwMV8lY

I think 'jipped' is an interesting case cause it really does seem so far removed for a lot of people. can something that starts out racist eventually just become a word? most people have no clue about the etymology of most words they use.

The term mongol, or Mongoloid, was adopted in the late 19th century to refer to a person with Down syndrome, owing to the similarity of some of the physical symptoms of the disorder with the normal facial characteristics of eastern Asian people.

haha im imagining some very agonizing and serious discussion about this sentence & thought amongst the dictionary editors

Indian giver
Indian burn
Indian summer