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13-09-2015, 02:55 PM | #76 | |||
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My flatmate in first year when he first referred to me as a "white boy" I asked him what he meant by that and he explained it was just his terminology and I accepted it and went on to use it myself in banter - although I never dared say the n-word. If we had ever argued and he called me a "white boy %#!#!' I would have taken it as a racist comment yes.
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13-09-2015, 02:56 PM | #77 | |||
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13-09-2015, 02:57 PM | #78 | |||
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13-09-2015, 03:00 PM | #79 | |||
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At the end of the day, if someone is made to feel **** for who they are as a person, isn't that all that matters? why does a persons history have to come into with what they are being made to feel at that moment
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13-09-2015, 03:00 PM | #80 | |||
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Im with you here. It seems that if youre in the minority group you are excluded from the label. It kind of reminds me of domesitc abuse - awareness, help and support is largely for when the female is abused compared to the male - but it exists.
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13-09-2015, 03:01 PM | #81 | |||
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You can't risk saying something like that though, because so many people could take offence. Even though it's true, like you said, it wouldnt be okay for Jords to say it back and there is another double standard.
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13-09-2015, 03:02 PM | #82 | |||
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this is a deliberate awkward comment
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13-09-2015, 03:02 PM | #83 | |||
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Exactly. I'm glad you also agree. I cant tell you how relieving it is to see that Liam and I aren't the only ones with this opinion, lol.
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13-09-2015, 03:03 PM | #84 | |||
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There's a double standard because white people have used it in the past to demean black people. If someone called me a white boy I would not be offended – how is that offensive?
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13-09-2015, 03:05 PM | #85 | |||
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The double standard is that it's okay Jords' friend to call him whatever he wants, but not okay for Jords' to do the same. What has Jords' ever done to demean black people?
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13-09-2015, 03:06 PM | #86 | |||
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It's not okay to be called names at all. But being called "white boy" is not offensive. He can make it offensive if he wants to, that's up to him.
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13-09-2015, 03:08 PM | #87 | |||
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Yeah I agree with the beginning part completely. And the point isnt that the name isn't offensive, but more so the fact that it's not okay for a white person to say something a black person could say. Its double standards.
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13-09-2015, 03:09 PM | #88 | |||
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You could argue that being addressed as "White Boy" demeans you as they only recognise you for the colour of your skin.
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13-09-2015, 03:11 PM | #89 | |||
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Anyway I wasnt offended nor thought it was aimed to be offensive - but this is not the point - anyway we talk about getting white boy wasted now
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13-09-2015, 03:11 PM | #90 | |||
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If I was in a room full of black people then I would be the "white boy" because that's what I am. I'm not defensive of my skin colour. If they called me "gay boy" it would be different. |
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13-09-2015, 03:13 PM | #91 | |||
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but you are gay?
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13-09-2015, 03:14 PM | #92 | |||
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13-09-2015, 03:14 PM | #93 | |||
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13-09-2015, 03:16 PM | #94 | |||
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I'm sick of people using the 'minority card' to get away with doing and saying whatever they want about the majority, it makes a mockery of wanting true equality.
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13-09-2015, 03:16 PM | #95 | |||
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Not the point and I can smell my dinner being made
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13-09-2015, 03:18 PM | #96 | |||
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kind of is though
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13-09-2015, 03:18 PM | #97 | |||
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see you've pretty much answered the question there, you weren't offended......where as that guy probably would have been if it were the other way round becuase referring to him as black boy has certain connotations that "white boy" does not.
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13-09-2015, 03:18 PM | #98 | |||
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I was called it in school as an attempt to shame me before I even knew my own sexuality. People would laugh about it and that's why I would have a problem with it even though it's who I am. I've never had an issue with being white.
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13-09-2015, 03:21 PM | #99 | |||
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Are you seriously telling me that if you argued with a black woman, lets say you took the last bag of frozen peas at Morrisons, and she called you a "****ing selfish White bitch" you would not consider that as a racist remark? :/
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13-09-2015, 03:22 PM | #100 | |||
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I'm sure Niamh would just be happy that she has the last bag of peas.
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