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To: RC2
How about the word “honky”? Can you also justify, chink, greaser, spik, polok, canuck, russky and so on?

Your post reminded me, a few years ago, Marlon Brando was being interviewed on television, and to make some kind of point, he listed ethnic slurs, just like you did in your post above. When the interview aired, only one of the ethnic slurs Brando had stated was bleeped out. Yep...the "N" word. I remember Larry Elder, the black radio host, railing about this. His point was that every other ethnic group can hear a slur and not go to pieces over it. Asians can hear "chink," Hispanics can hear "spik," etc. But blacks, oh, they're different. THEY'RE special. They are the only group so touchy and thin-skinned that their ethnic slur has to be bleeped! Larry's point was that this hypersensitivity actually hurts blacks, and I think he was right.

55 posted on 08/13/2010 5:11:18 PM PDT by Nea Wood (Silly liberal . . . paychecks are for workers!)
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To: Nea Wood

It is very silly in this day and age to be so hypersensitive about that one particular word.

I think from now on I’ll use the word my Jewish mother-in-law used when referring to African-Americans:

Schwarze!


65 posted on 08/13/2010 6:46:07 PM PDT by Palladin (Obama on The View: "When those folks came over on 9-11". Folks??? WTH?)
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