Anyone wanting to bitch-slap me on the bus because I have a better than 10th-grade vocabulary and know how to use it, is gonna get his ass pile driven into the floor.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
I was kind of referring to being in grade school.
It doesn’t matter whether or not the word is real or legitimate. What matters is context.
If I called a black kid belligerent when I was in sixth grade, on the bus through the black neighborhood in my town, I would have gotten my ass kicked.
Same thing with “uppity.”
Its not niggardly attention to the dictionary. Its paying attention to what happens when someone else says something stupid. And they get their ass kicked.
I called it survival during those wonderful days of race riots. I spent many an lunch break getting to know my colored classmates on the fields behind the school.
It was stupid then, and its stupid now.
I agree that many folks are ultra sensitive to things that folks say. But, at least in my area, you KNOW those words are used to incite. Why bother pissing people off when you can use so many other words to describe something.
Just as most folks do not use the N word anymore. Its not just PC, its just lazy.