When Overprivileged White Women Attack
Holy Copper Pedal FUCK daily_deviant
This response???? If your community members don't know about the word in a racist context you're not going to tell them? There is no racism in Harry Potterverse against Black people, thus making use of the word ok?
W.
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Cotton Picking
F?!
Then again, I've seen comments recently from people who apparently know the mods and knew their take was going to be to puff up and say 'We're not racists and you're a slanderous meanie for saying we are!'
The point was the word. The word is offensive. The word implies black men lynched for looking at white women because their very eyes tainted those white women. That word implies slave masters raping their own children by slave women, because the child wasn't nothing but an animal anyway, it wasn't immoral or illegal. And that kind of mentality leading to little black girls being messed with way past slavery.
Just...
Will you get the fuck off your high horse about 'We're pushing the envelopes of sexuality' and stop sounding like Laurell Freaking K Hamilton and thus full of nothing but hot air and excuses for ignorance and general badness??
daily_deviant mods:
Second, your interpretation of the word 'miscegenation' as "implicitly calling people of color niggers" is simply not the prevalent interpretation around the world. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscegenation. (applying the term, among other ways, to denote a mixing of classes, and setting out the various historical contexts in which the word has been used)
http://www.answers.com/topic/miscegenation. (applying the term generally, to connote mixing of races)
http://miscegenation.com/ (an interracial dating site)
You want links? I got links.
http://www.eugenics-watch.com/roots/chap07.html
http://www.oah.org/pubs/magazine/family/cruz-berson.html
http://www.zmag.org/Sustainers/Content/2003-08/13beal.cfm < -- ok that one's old and 2003. But Israel. How's that for a global stage?
PLEASE STOP POINTING TO SEXUAL PREFERENCES to hide the fact that you didn't think, you haven't thought and somehow you think being painted as persistently stupid and now passively racist somehow makes you martyrs.
This is who you have defending you.
sktypied
You know, there are some black people who seem to enjoy using the color of their skin to stir up trouble and/or spin things to their advantage and sympathy.
My mom works down at the court and she tells stories of a couple black employees on the floor above her (where she used to work), who will scream injustice and wave the race card at the slightest hint of "racism". The administration doesn't want any trouble, of course, because what if the public should think the city court is racist, and so either placate them by giving in to the employees wishes or settling things privately between them.
I can't help but think this might be one of those instances.
ETA: Aug 1/07. sktypied has since had discussion into how her words came across and has apologised.
This response???? If your community members don't know about the word in a racist context you're not going to tell them? There is no racism in Harry Potterverse against Black people, thus making use of the word ok?
W.
T
Cotton Picking
F?!
Then again, I've seen comments recently from people who apparently know the mods and knew their take was going to be to puff up and say 'We're not racists and you're a slanderous meanie for saying we are!'
The point was the word. The word is offensive. The word implies black men lynched for looking at white women because their very eyes tainted those white women. That word implies slave masters raping their own children by slave women, because the child wasn't nothing but an animal anyway, it wasn't immoral or illegal. And that kind of mentality leading to little black girls being messed with way past slavery.
Just...
Will you get the fuck off your high horse about 'We're pushing the envelopes of sexuality' and stop sounding like Laurell Freaking K Hamilton and thus full of nothing but hot air and excuses for ignorance and general badness??
daily_deviant mods:
Second, your interpretation of the word 'miscegenation' as "implicitly calling people of color niggers" is simply not the prevalent interpretation around the world. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscegenation. (applying the term, among other ways, to denote a mixing of classes, and setting out the various historical contexts in which the word has been used)
http://www.answers.com/topic/miscegenation. (applying the term generally, to connote mixing of races)
http://miscegenation.com/ (an interracial dating site)
You want links? I got links.
http://www.eugenics-watch.com/roots/chap07.html
http://www.oah.org/pubs/magazine/family/cruz-berson.html
http://www.zmag.org/Sustainers/Content/2003-08/13beal.cfm < -- ok that one's old and 2003. But Israel. How's that for a global stage?
PLEASE STOP POINTING TO SEXUAL PREFERENCES to hide the fact that you didn't think, you haven't thought and somehow you think being painted as persistently stupid and now passively racist somehow makes you martyrs.
This is who you have defending you.
sktypied
You know, there are some black people who seem to enjoy using the color of their skin to stir up trouble and/or spin things to their advantage and sympathy.
My mom works down at the court and she tells stories of a couple black employees on the floor above her (where she used to work), who will scream injustice and wave the race card at the slightest hint of "racism". The administration doesn't want any trouble, of course, because what if the public should think the city court is racist, and so either placate them by giving in to the employees wishes or settling things privately between them.
I can't help but think this might be one of those instances.
ETA: Aug 1/07. sktypied has since had discussion into how her words came across and has apologised.