Posted on 06/30/2008 12:14:10 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
Utter lunacy. Insanity. When a nursery rhyme offends someone I think she is way too sensitive, esp. when the man certainly meant no harm. The woman must have a very cushy life if this is a problem to her. I think she should be more concerned by disease, economic distress, violence, war, etc. But maybe to her those are just trivial things because a nursery rhyme makes her feel threatened!
Just kidding. That was some funny stuff right there.
As far as I can tell, the offending word was never uttered. It was "heard" only in a racist mind.
Actually had he been allowed to finish, he might have had the intention of using the 2-syllable word "polack".
Can I have another legally devastating shot at that guy (and collect my ghetto-lottery from the city, of course)?
“He was fired because she “thought of” the n-word version!”
Thoughtcrime. Nearly a quarter of a century late, “1984” has arrived.
This is probably a good thread on which to mention that standing in the town square of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch asking random passerbys if they learned the words to “Taffy was a Welshman” as children is probably not the brightest of ideas....
Yeah, that's the first question I think of whenever I see elderly black women in the hallway.....
Dunno what the background might be, but I think there's more to the story....
Thin skins and the cult of victimization are bigger obstacles to a society’s success than any -ism or -phobia.
But Rover took over and threw her......
He shoulda sung it with a rap beat, you can apparently use the N word among others as long as you be rapping.
Gee, I guess he should be glad he did not ask about that Man from Nantucket..
Hehe. It's even better if you say, "You people need to get over it." Triple offense. "You people need to get over it, sweetie!" Make it a quadruple
“Brazil Nuts!”
LOL
Joseph Conrad wrote a book titled “N***** of the Narcissus” back in 1894. I won’t spell the word in case the PC police are out there frothing at the mouth waiting to pounce ... I’m old enough to remember it as recommended reading material in school. Haven’t checked the libraries for the title ... wonder if it’s still out there, or, has the title been revised somehow to conform with modern day PC sensitivities?
Don’t know if Kipling was the first one to do so, he may have just been repeating the counting rhyme. (Flashman has taught me that the English in the 19th century used the “n-word” much more broadly than we Americans did.
Many years ago I read an article (Encyclopedia Britannica?) about nursery rhymes. The premise was that children circulated them quite independently of adults. As an experiment children were taught a new rhyme and the researchers were amazed at how quickly it spread across England.
More to the point of this rhyme, the article stated that it originated during the days of the underground railroad. If someone caught a runaway slave, one could make some easy money. Have the runaway pay you what he had or turn him in for whatever reward was offered.
The tiger version, of course makes no sense at all; I’d guess ‘tiger’ was substituted in the late ‘50s early ‘60s as people became uncomfortable with the racist connotations of the original rhyme.
But no one sued me for $10,000,000.
"Jill came down with two and a half, they didn't go up for water!"
Wow-someone takes my picture and says” cheese” can I sue, because being white, I heard “cracker” in my mind? Oh-wait, I am not part of the victim population.
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