Racist or not?...you make the call.

Im sorry, but the statement that racism is gone is completely false. I do however think there is some weird quasi-anti-racist movement, such as the favt Im not allowed to call my black friends that I've known for 20 years black, I have to call them african-american.

You know who pushes that? Rich Americans who have maybe met one black guy in their life, or those idiotic super rich black folk who try to make every single issue racist.

Look, in my mind, the term black is similar to the term tan. It is a descriptor. He is a black colored person, I am a tan colored person, he has black hair, I have brown hair, just get the [censored] over it.

Now the racism in America is all based on the crime stereotype. Ask your parent for instance why you shouldn't move to the bronx, or the 3rd ward in houston, and there's a chance they'll make some face, and quietly say something along the lines of "its a dark neighborhood" or, "there's mixed ethnicities there". Its amazing how comfortable people get with statements like that when there is no one around of the ethnicities they are referring to.

No I dont say nigga, nigger, blackie, tarbaby, or any of those. Why? Not because Im PC, but just because I dont think using that word makes me any cooler, and if it also could offend anyone, why use it? Its called maturity, its why I try not to cuss around a priest.

BTW, this is also why people finally realized that Chris Rock wasnt all that funny, after they got over the shock of him saying nigga all the time.

[BeerMoney]

Who cares.

[Aces McGee]

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On more than one occasion up here in lilly-white New Hampshire, I've had patients say the following anti-semetic phrase in the context of a normal conversation such as:

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Don't think you might be skewing the results a bit?

-McGee

[razor]

Though I don't recall having used the phrase, I have certainly heard it used on occasion. Until recently I had never considered how the word was spelled or what the origin of the phrase was, thus missing its 'obvious' reference to a specific group of people, to me it was just a phrase.

[HopeydaFish]

When I worked in sales I had a few customers say things like "don't Jew me" and "don't be such a Jew" when they were trying to negotiate for a better deal. I always found it shocking that someone would use this figure of speech when talking to a stranger. For all these people knew, *I* could have been Jewish...but they'd say these things without batting an eyelash.

[sfer]

Clearly the correct phrase should be "...he tried to Josh me down..."

[Rushmore]

I voted "not racist," but only because it is unclear whether Judaism is a race or a religion.

Maybe a category "not definitively racist" or "bigoted" would have been better.

I would definitely have voted for "bigoted."

[Warik]

I voted not racist because "Jew" is not a race!!!

Wow... it's a shame so many seemingly intelligent people have trouble using a dictionary.

[diebitter]

The amount of ridiculous nitpicking, lack of humour and general pedantry and retardedness in this thread makes me think 2 things
1. This should be in politics
2. I wish they'd implement an 'ignore thread' function even more strongly (and I felt pretty strongly about it after that bloody 'airliner on a moving runway' thread which kept going and going AND going AND going - like the easter bunny hooked up to 3-mile Island.)

Throughout history the Jewish people have considered their race and religion to be intertwined. Only in the more recent centuries have people of non-Jewish descent even entered the Jewish faith. Technically "Jew" is a race, read up about it. And this is racism, but i don't think it would bother me. The terms whitey, honkey, and cracker don't bother me at all. I think the whole thing of getting pissed off about racist remarks is dumb. I've been called much worse things than a slang term meaning "white", but hey, [censored] happens. Move on.