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Originally posted by Mrluvaluva
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Originally posted by Jaz0
Okay, I don't know many racially offensive words that a white person could be called (probably really shameful) but I know that 'honky' is a racist term against white people, I just wondered, if you're white, would you be offended if someone called you that?
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It depeands on the situation, who is saying it, and in what context it was said.
I used to go out clubbing every weekend with some friends in Manchester who were originally from Zambia in Africa. They got called "*****", "indians" (just shows you peoples ignorance) and "blacks" sometimes, from people who had had a bit much to drink. I would just turn around and say something like "what about it white honky"? They never knew how to comeback on that one not 1 single time (being white myself). If my friends had said that, the situation would have been very different!
I was not being racist as it was against my own kind. If they would have said it, then it would have been racist. So as it has been pointed out before, you can't be racist against your own ethnicity (hence why some black people are ok with calling each other *******).
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Saying that though, there are a lot of black and Asian celebrities who seem to go out of their way to make their skin look as white as it can, not that I think they're being racist against their own ethnicity but why do they do it?