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People want the Spanish word for black changed because they think it’s racist
Metro ^ | January 22, 2018 | Jimmy Nsubuga

Posted on 01/22/2018 1:39:16 PM PST by EdnaMode

There’s currently a debate raging as to whether a teenager should be allowed to call her dog Negro. Actually, some people are so annoyed Twitter user @rebeca_macias18 named her missing hound the Spanish word for black they have suggested it should be changed. But the anger towards her seemed a bit unfair as she’s from Mexico, so speaks Spanish, and was not trying to offend anyone.

@rebeca_macias18 negro is missing😢 please if anyone sees him message me!!!

Some social media users argued she should have known how insensitive the word, which has been used to disparage black people in America, was. This Twitter user seemed to suggest the word should be changed even though it wasn’t supposed to refer to a person’s skin colour

@BeautiFul_JaA First of all the fact that negro is used in Spanish as a color is racist asf. The end https://twitter.com/priscillux/status/955264581730906112 … 3:15 AM - Jan 22, 2018

@Luyanda_D__ You definitely ain't gonna find that dog now with a name like that..... 1:21 PM - Jan 20, 2018

(Excerpt) Read more at metro.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: negro; racism; racist
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Spanish is racist?
1 posted on 01/22/2018 1:39:16 PM PST by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

How niggardly of them...................


2 posted on 01/22/2018 1:40:43 PM PST by Red Badger (Wanna surprise? Google your own name. Wanna have fun? Google your friends names......)
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To: EdnaMode

Just to be safe, outlaw Spanish as a language. /sarc


3 posted on 01/22/2018 1:41:54 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: EdnaMode

Unlike English, there actually is a governing board that makes the rules that direct how the Spanish language is spoken and written.


4 posted on 01/22/2018 1:42:05 PM PST by forgotten man
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To: EdnaMode
What about yiddish?


5 posted on 01/22/2018 1:42:25 PM PST by C210N (It is easier to fool the people than convince them that they have been fooled)
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To: Red Badger

I'm sure they'll be bitchin' about the Rio Negro next ...

6 posted on 01/22/2018 1:43:16 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: EdnaMode

I don’t think Negro was used as a term of disparagement. It’s not the current preferred adjective but it wasn’t a particular insult.


7 posted on 01/22/2018 1:44:17 PM PST by Persevero (Democrats haven't been this nutty since we freed their slaves.)
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To: EdnaMode
@rebeca_macias18 negro is missing😢 please if anyone sees him message me!!!

Well at least she didn't include this picture with the tweet


8 posted on 01/22/2018 1:44:33 PM PST by COBOL2Java (Arguing with the left is like trying to reason with a crazy bum hearing voices)
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To: EdnaMode

I once had a black dog named Blackie.

Boy was I a racist. To this day I still feel so guilty.


9 posted on 01/22/2018 1:44:46 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (R2: Proudly intruding since 1958)
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To: EdnaMode

Rename the dog RGB (0,0,0).


10 posted on 01/22/2018 1:45:13 PM PST by Flick Lives
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To: Red Badger

I’ve been to the fabric district in L.A. YES, they do say “negro” as black when my GF was buying black satin and chiffon. It is what it is.


11 posted on 01/22/2018 1:45:27 PM PST by beergarden
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To: EdnaMode

“the word, which has been used to disparage black people in America,”

WUT


12 posted on 01/22/2018 1:45:39 PM PST by Celerity
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To: EdnaMode

Perpetually offended people are themselves highly offensive.


13 posted on 01/22/2018 1:45:46 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: EdnaMode

Blacks use the word to describe worthless men in baggy pants. It is apparently trademarked so other cultures are unable to use it.


14 posted on 01/22/2018 1:46:37 PM PST by lurk
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To: EdnaMode

Once again,

Twitter.

Put Twitter in the rear view mirror. No good comes of this site. Even when people argue that there is good, there is no good.

There are people that you want to hear from, they should blog and you should subscribe. They should publish and you should read. Twitter is all of those, and none of those.


15 posted on 01/22/2018 1:47:08 PM PST by Celerity
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To: EdnaMode

Black in Spanish is negro. There is no Spanish word for n....r. And negro is not a word used in America to disparage black people.


16 posted on 01/22/2018 1:47:32 PM PST by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners..)
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To: EdnaMode

Clearly she should have named it Perro de color.


17 posted on 01/22/2018 1:48:13 PM PST by freefdny
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Hey! I think I just saw Negro.

Is this him?

Image result for afro dog

18 posted on 01/22/2018 1:48:53 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (R2: Proudly intruding since 1958)
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To: beergarden

Of course they do!

Spanish is a LATIN derived language, as is Italian and Portuguese, French, Romanian, and Catalan.

It would be like somebody telling English speaker we need to get rid of the word ‘black’ because it offends them.....................


19 posted on 01/22/2018 1:49:05 PM PST by Red Badger (Wanna surprise? Google your own name. Wanna have fun? Google your friends names......)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I had a black lab named Sambo. And nobody cared.


20 posted on 01/22/2018 1:50:04 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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