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Originally posted by GiRTh
A good post. But surely you understand what I'm trying to say. By the way, Chris Rock got into a lot of trouble for that routine within the black community. That routine is not the best one to quote.
My point is that the word is a very contentious word and my advise is don't use it.
From watching the footage, it was clear to me as a black man that Emily did not try and cause any offence. But the fact remains she should not have said it.
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This is an odd situation as on one hand, I am in complete agreement with those who say she had to be removed because she said it. the events of CBB5 made it a damned if I do damnned if I dont situation for C4
In the other hand I do not believe differentiating between one user of that word and another on grounds of ethnicity is going to do anything other than cause resentment against ethnic minorites.
I used the Chris Rock example specifically because he did get some flack from the black community in the US over it, but the thing is they understood exactly what he meant, as did I and I will surmise so did you when he used that word, he used it as an insult, which was my intent - though re-reading my post I did not make that clear, for which I apologise.
There are a number of prominent african americans who have spoken against the use of the word almost as a term of endearment, Chris Rock is one of them
My objection is simple, and apologies for the repetition, if it is the word itself that caused the offence and so the eviction, then she is not the only one who should be evicted.
Is equality to be more weighted against one ethnic group as opposed to another ? - thats a slippery road that leads, in this country, to the BNP and their ilk.
Thats a road I don't want to go down.