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

[InchoateHand]

Don't make me do the nigger work.

[JaBlue]

clearly racist

[istewart]

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Don't make me do the nigger work.

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Hahahaha.

[BigBaitsim (milo)]

Anti-semitic. Not even close. Heard the phrase for the first time in college, and as a jew was pretty pissed off about it. I guess that's one way to define racism, that a person of that race/religion/ethnicity feels insulted by the comment. Sure, some are overly sensitive, and this is not the best measure of racism, but I know few jews who would particularly like the phrase.

Oddly, my parents, who were always sensitive to any anti-semitism they saw, showed a pattern of using offensive terms to describe other ethnic minorities. Strange that people do that without getting the irony.

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If I only wanted my opinion I'd just poll myself.

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tee hee. <font color="white"> think about it </font>

[Jack of Arcades]

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I find that like the term "nigger-rig" You would never use it in front of a black guy, but if you did he would only be, at the most, minorly irriatated

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please use it in a sentence and find me a black person who would only be minorly irritated.

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Most blacks I know, and I know a lot - my city's population is over 1/4 black and I live on the poorer side of town.

Edit: I found that the people that would most get offended at such a term are either a) whites or b) educated or middle-to-upper class blacks. You can clearly see signs of racism amongst some of the middle-to-upper class blacks, similar to Chris Rock's "black people and niggers" distinction, or the division of light and dark skinned blacks in New Orleans.

Then again, racism - or relics of them - have been around so long here that it's done without thought.

[Weatherhead03]

Anti-semitic.

[Jack of Arcades]

I wonder if people would have the same repsonse if your example used the word "gypped."

I voted racist, based on the implicit assumption that "jew" is a race. If we want to get nitty, I'll say it's not racist.

[ClaytonN]

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I wonder if people would have the same repsonse if your example used the word "gypped."

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it just occurred to me that this was a slur against the gypsies. and i've used it for how long? holy [censored]