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
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The minority groups are tearing themselves apart.
Good.
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That was my grandparent’s dog”s name when the younger grandchildren came to visit.
Nobody complained....just laughed.
Combine PC with ignorance and this is what you get.
It used to be a place to perform research on topics, but the bad information out there is so pervasive that even the specialist sites are full of bad data.
So the internet is just an ad machine now.
LOL
Agreed. They’re incredibly annoying.
So much imbecility, as far as the eye can see...
Has the United Negro College Fund weighed in on this?
The official language of Mexico is now Swedish.
I gotta tell you, I’d be tempted to name my black lab N_gger, just to piss off the PC snowflakes.
Never name a dog anything you couldn’t or wouldn’t bellow at 11pm after he chooses to run off chasing a wild critter. Saves a lot of confusion and embarrassment.
When I was a kid, any grey cat we had was always named after a Confederate hero.
I once had a black dog named Darkee..
Boy was I a racist. To this day I still feel so NOT guilty.
How about the Latin word for black?
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