The Etymology Psychic Predicts

[harpsi_fizz]

There's an all-day tutorial on the Circulatory system tomorrow, so I won't be able to make the ONTDCreepy FFA. This saddens me.

Today seems like a good day to lose friends and alienate people.
You might not like this entry. Click back as soon as you can, for I promise you that it's not going to get any better as it goes along.

Comments

[theonlymeyouget]

See, there's "nigger", "nigga", and "negro

[urbanmagician]

Hm. I always felt it's not the word choice that is the offensive element, but the intention to offend. You know, when someone says "you idiot!" it's not the word "idiot" that is offensive (I know with absolute certainty I'm no idiot :P) but the fact that someone apparently hates me and wants to cause me pain by saying it. Same thing with racial stuff. It's not the "Jew!" (Thanks, Captain Obvious, I am one.) but the fact that someone tries to show me I'm different and that I should be ashamed of that. And the same way, the most innocent words can be used in a way that makes them extremely offensive. Gonna stop using the whole vocabulary, because of the potential risk to, say, use "man" in a way that makes it sound totally like "privileged dirtbag, can't wait till you're extinct"? (I swear I had it spoken to me in just this way once

[x_creepy_doll_x]

White folks are accustomed to having their asses kicked for any use of that word... so yeah, we're uncomfortable around it. We avoid it like the plague.

TL:DR

[barsukthom]

Yankee. As in, Damnyankee. Properly usable only to refer to New Englanders, has spread to apply to, generally, someone whose parents were unlikely to have met at a family reunion. (cough)
Honky. Racial epithet, ought properly only to be applied to persons of Hungarian descent. Or possibly Bohemians, as well.
Irish. Full Stop.
Now me, my ancestors were Krauts, Herring Chompers, and Damnswedes. As well as full-blooded Yankees. Oh, say; We rather WON the War of Northern Aggression, didn't we? No, you can't have your Damn' Johnny Reb battle flag back, you sons-of-traitors! (cough)
Not that I have opinions on the subject.

[barsukthom]

sry 4 rantipoling

[harpsi_fizz]

>C You always say that, and I always tell you the same thing- there is no tl;dr on my journal and I make my entries specifically to collect the thoughts of other people.

[barsukthom]

(Huddles)
But it's how I AMMMMM!

[harpsi_fizz]

*Distracted* What the... is Livejournal delivering your comment notifications in a totally bizarr-o freakshow way? I just got a message that says "Reply to your comment in "The Etymology Psychic Predicts" Um, duh LJ, just put it in my thread. WTF?